Idol Quotes

Proof is an idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself. (Arthur Eddington)
Everybody is a teenage idol. View quote
Barry Gibb
There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol. View quote
Joseph Addison
I've never seen American Idol but I am grateful to them. That show is one of Fox's biggest moneymakers, and some of that money goes to pay for shows like Prison Break. Simon Cowell's been signing my paychecks and for that I say thanks. View quote
Wentworth Miller
Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol. View quote
Rabindranath Tagore
Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
If I was ever a teen idol, I'd kill myself. View quote
Jared Leto
Franz Klammer was my great idol in my younger years. View quote
Hermann Maier
Well, being that, at the house and being in the competition, it was very hard to be with family. We couldn't have visitors out of respect for everyone else there. But, being the American Idol, the focus would have been on me. View quote
LaToya London
There is a denial of the value of the individual. Christianity affirms the value of each individual soul. Nazism denies it. The individual is sacrificed to the idol of the German Leader, German State or the German race. The ordinary citizen is allowed to hear and think only as the rulers decree. View quote
Clement Attlee
The earliest stand-up comedy I was aware of was Bill Cosby ... I watched Saturday Night Live as soon as I was aware of it, and Monty Python used to be on PBS at weird hours, so I used to try to watch that. And I loved George Carlin on SNL, that was the first stand-up I ever really remember seeing on TV. And then Steve Martin. I guess I was in fifth or sixth grade when Steve Martin showed up, and he was instantly my idol. And Richard Pryor around the same time too, I sort of became aware of him, though I don't remember the first time I saw him. (Louis C.K.)
The Hebrews took for their idol, not something made of metal or wood, but a race, a nation, something just as earthly. Their religion is essentially inseparable from such idolatry, because of the notion of the "chosen people." View quote
Simone Weil
I am the entertainer, the idol of my age I make all kinds of money when I go on the stage You see me in the papers, I've been in the magazines But if I go cold, I won't get sold I get put in the back in the discount rack Like another can of beans. View quote
Billy Joel
Verily, we know not what an evil it is to indulge ourselves, and to make an idol of our will. View quote
Samuel Rutherford
Yet a personal God can become a grave liability. He can be a mere idol carved in our own image, a projection of our limited needs. fears and desires. We can assume that he loves what we love and hates what we hate, endorsing our prejudices instead of compelling us to transcend them. View quote
Karen Armstrong
I started going to Madame Louise's, the lesbian club where all the punk bands used to go - the Sex Pistols, the Clash. I remember seeing Billy Idol walk in there; he was gorgeous. View quote
Boy George
One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market-place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to. View quote
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
And if you cast down an idol, there's nothing left. View quote
Agatha Christie
Composers aren't daring enough. They're afraid of that sacred idol called 'common sense', which is the most dreadful thing I know - after all, it's no more than a religion founded to excuse the ubiquity of imbeciles! View quote
Claude Debussy
A God who let us prove his existence would be an idol. View quote
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
b>England has to fulfill a double mission in India: one destructive, the other regenerating – the annihilation of old Asiatic society, and the laying the material foundations of Western society in Asia... When a great social revolution shall have mastered the results of the bourgeois epoch... and subjected them to the common control of the most advanced peoples, then only will human progress cease to resemble that hideous, pagan idol, who would not drink the nectar but from the skulls of the slain. (Karl Marx)
Every concept that comes from some comprehensible image, by an approximate understanding and by guessing at the Divine nature, constitutes an idol of God and does not proclaim God. View quote
Gregory of Nyssa
I must admit that I was in total awe of Stewart Granger. He was my idol. View quote
Roger Moore
Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing. View quote
Shakti Gawain
Whoa, what is this? Battle of the Sarcastic and Pissed? Should I make popcorn? Forget American Idol, man. This is much more entertaining. (Kish) View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon