Idols Quotes - Page 9

The free person does not live by an unexamined faith. To do so is to worship an idol whittled out and made into a fetish.

My idol was Johann Cruyff (a Dutch soccer player) and I wanted to be like him. But when I realized that I would never be, I decided to do something else. I met the kitchen by chance and quickly became completely enamoured by it.

Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.

Being known primarily for their well-knownness, celebrities intensify their celebrity images simply by becoming widely known for relations among themselves. By a kind of symbiosis, celebrities live off one another.

I grew up trying to be like my idols, and one of the main people in my life was my father. He played football, and when your father is telling stories about the game he played... Everybody wants to be like their father.

I don't care what stage or what reason, as long as we're playing.

Many people think that the Bible is the authentic word of God and they worship the Bible, making it an idol.

And what art thou, thou idol Ceremony? What kind of god art thou, that suffer'st more Of mortal griefs than do thy worshippers?

You know what? I knew that my God was bigger than his [about Muslims in Somalia]. I knew that my God was a real God and his was an idol.

But those guys (on 'Idol') will never be known for defining a generation of young suburbanites like (blink) did.

Idols are often good things that we have made into ultimate things.

The 'American Idol' and 'X Factor' shows, they're great shows. But I think I need to make a show like that, directed straight to the hood, to the artists that don't get the attention, that don't have the money to make themselves representable.

All the idols made by man, however terrifying they may be, are in point of fact subordinate to him, and that is why he will always have it in his power to destroy them.

Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing.

They were marketing me as a teen idol, when the stuff on the record was not what teen idols were doing at the time.

Any conception of a god that is less than sovereign is an idol and no god at all.

I got to work with [Carlos] Santana, who's been my idol forever. When I was 18, I got up with him in Australia and jammed with him. That was an amazing moment because I got up in front of my hometown crowd.

When I was younger, there was a huge gap between what I wanted to do and what I could do as an idol.

Again, both literature and philosophy work by appealing to certain reigning idols.

Our English people are much addicted to raising idols, and then revenging themselves on their own idolatry by knocking down and demolishing the poor bits of wood and stone that they had worshipped as gods. How many literary reputations have been so treated!

It is not he who forms idols in gold or marble that makes them gods, but he who kneels before them.

I definitely wanted to be an actor. I didn't want to be on TV, I didn't want to be famous, I didn't want to be anyone in particular; I just wanted to do it. I see young people now who look at magazines, or American Idol and their goal is to have that lifestyle - to have good handbags, or go out with cute guys from shows, or whatever. But I definitely wanted to be an actor.

Art came fluidly, so I was able to teach myself many of the things I thought were important by copying and mimicking my artistic idols.

The media network has its idols, but its principal idol is its own style which generates an aura of winning and leaves the rest in darkness. It recognizes neither pity nor pitilessness.

If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.