Pedestal Quotes - Page 2

One thing I teach my children and want everyone to know that even if you happen to be on a pedestal you should have the capacity to turn around and say, 'I don't know'. We are scared to go wrong. Downfall is part of life.

Love is when someone puts you on a pedestal and yet when you fall, they're there to catch you anyway.' - Tara Daniels

When you let people put you up on a pedestal, you step one step in any direction, and you're going to go down.

And I'd like to leave quite a few friends behind and I hope I will. Other than that, I don't want nobody putting me on a pedestal when I leave here. I'm just one of the people ... just me.

I like to summarize what I regard as the pedestal-smashing messages of Darwin's revolution in the following statement, which might be chanted several times a day, like a Hare Krishna mantra, to encourage penetration into the soul: Humans are not the end result of predictable evolutionary progress, but rather a fortuitous cosmic afterthought, a tiny little twig on the enormously arborescent bush of life, which, if replanted from seed, would almost surely not grow this twig again, or perhaps any twig with any property that we would care to call consciousness.

A pedestal is the most insidious prison ever devised.

If you're put on a pedestal, you're supposed to behave yourself like a pedestal type of person. Pedestals actually have a limited circumference. Not much room to move around.

I was on a Japanese designers' pedestal - considered a maestro. My design was getting closer to a couturier's work, and I felt like I was missing something.

What is an "I", and why are such things found (at least so far) only in association with, as poet Russell Edson once wonderfully phrased it, "teetering bulbs of dread and dream" - that is, only in association with certain kinds of gooey lumps encased in hard protective shells mounted atop mobile pedestals that roam the world on pairs of slightly fuzzy, jointed stilts?

All hope abandon, ye who enter here!

I'm not set on a pedestal where I think I'm too high and mighty.

The favorites of fortune or of fame topple from their pedestals before our eyes without diverting us from ambition.

Rock'n'roll to me is a rebellion against the sterile pedestal culture of movies.

If people don't know their pastor, it's easy to put the pastor on a pedestal and depersonalize him or her. It's also easy for pastors, who don't know their congregations, simply to classify congregants as saved or unsaved, involved or not involved, tithers or non-tithers.

Women are not ladies. The term connotates females who are simultaneously put on a pedestal and patronized.

I cannot pretend to do sculpture and make a woman the ridiculous pedestal of my pretensions. To render clothing poetic, yes--but one must preserve its dignity as clothing.

The tomb is the pedestal of greatness. I make a distinction between God's great and the king's great.

It's interesting in American culture. We like to build people up and then push them off the pedestal, and then we want to see them come back. Like Britney Spears, and a lot of people, it's what we do, and it's not like that in other parts of the world.

Spoons and skimmers you can be undistinguishably together; but vases and statues require each a pedestal for itself.

The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.

Hollywood people want to build you up and make you famous only to knock you off you're the pedestal they built for you.

We put authors on such a pedestal, and it's a moment that humanizes the whole thing, and lends an absurdity to what otherwise is a "please sit with your hands on your lap" kind of event.

When greatness descends from its lofty pedestal, it assumes human dimensions.

Shoes must have very high heels and platforms to put women's beauty on a pedestal.

Men put me on a pedestal, then never come to visit.