Pedestal Quotes

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal. (Woody Allen)
A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space. View quote
Gloria Steinem
Hollywood people want to build you up and make you famous only to knock you off you're the pedestal they built for you. View quote
Morgan Brittany
Shoes must have very high heels and platforms to put women's beauty on a pedestal. View quote
Vivienne Westwood
The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos. View quote
Stephen Jay Gould
You know it's never fifty-fifty in a marriage. It's always seventy-thirty, or sixty-forty. Someone falls in love first. Someone puts someone else up on a pedestal. Someone works very hard to keep things rolling smoothly; someone else sails along for the ride. View quote
Jodi Picoult
There is never any real danger in allowing a pedestal for a hero. He never has time to sit on it. One sees him always over and over again kicking his pedestal out from under him, and using it to batter a world with. View quote
Gerald Stanley Lee
I feel like role models today are not meant to be put on a pedestal. But more like angels with broken wings. View quote
Tupac Shakur
Literature is the noblest of all the arts. Music dies on the air, or at best exists only as a memory; oratory ceases with the effort; the painter's colors fade and the canvas rots; the marble is dragged from its pedestal and is broken into fragments. View quote
Elbert Hubbard
Here lies a fallen god His fall was not a small one, We did but build his pedestal An narrow and a tall one. View quote
Frank Herbert
An intelligent man said that the world felt Napoleon as a weight, and that when he died it would give a great oof of relief. This is just as true of Byron, or of such Byrons of their days as Kipling and Hemingway: after a generation or two the world is tired of being their pedestal, shakes them of with an oof, and then-hoisting onto its back a new world-figure-feels the penetrating satisfaction of having made a mistake all its own. (Randall Jarrell)
A pedestal is the most insidious prison ever devised. View quote
Neal Shusterman
Don't put yourself on a pedestal. Because it's very easy for someone to knock you off. It's balance. View quote
Rob Halford
Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed. I do not ask that you place hands upon the tyrant to topple him over, but simply that you support him no longer; then you will behold him, like a great Colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away, fall of his own weight and break in pieces. View quote
Etienne de La Boetie
I was writing a chapter of Beautiful Evidence on the subject of the sculptural pedestal, which led to my thinking about what's up on the pedestal - the great leader. View quote
Edward R. Tufte
I don't want to be put on a pedestal. I just want to be reasonably successful and live a normal life with all the conveniences to make it so. View quote
Althea Gibson
I am and always will be a sinner. But that's the beautiful thing about Jesus. I'll always try to be a better person in the eyes of God. But I'm not all of a sudden stepping up on a pedestal and saying I'm holier than thou, 'cause I'm not! View quote
Billy Ray Cyrus
Men have to descend from their pedestal and learn how to be more broadminded and spiritual. View quote
Indra Devi
Today they're praising you sky high, place you on a pedestal and tomorrow they don't want to know you. View quote
Mark McGrath
I don't want to be put on a pedestal. I want to be known as a nice and normal person, but my skills are a little more excelled. View quote
Misty May-Treanor
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. (Simon Rex)
From his high pedestal, Prof. Sharma could afford to disregard the 'very few authors whose work effectively addresses the feudalism thesis in a critical manner', and he 'appears to have been in no mood to take heed of criticism levelled at his work'. This disregarding and ignoring of counter-evidence is tactically the best way to prolong your dominant position (which is why this tactic was adopted by most secularists in the Ayodhya debate): it denies publicity and respectability to the critic's alternative thesis. But to the progress of science, this upholding of dogma and suppression of debate is detrimental. According to Prof. Wink, the effect has been this : 'Under the impact of the feudalism thesis the historiography of the period is still in utter disarray.' View quote
Koenraad Elst
His hand came nearer, his eyes danced round the room, which began to fill with a golden haze. He beckoned, and Clesant moved into his arms. Clesand had often been proud of his disease but never, never of his body, it had never occurred to him that he could provoke desire. This sudden revelation shattered him, he fell from his pedestal, but not alone, there was someone to cling to, broad shoulders, a sunburnt throat, lips that parted as they touched him to murmur – ‘And to hell with Woolacott'. View quote
E. M. Forster
I think you can love a person too much. You put someone up on a pedestal, and all of a sudden, from that perspective, you notice what's wrong - a hair out of place, a run in a stocking, a broken bone. You spend all your time and energy making it right, and all the while, you are falling apart yourself. You don't even realize what you look like, how far you've deteriorated, because you only have eyes for someone else. View quote
Jodi Picoult
I try not to read too much in the media because they're either gonna put you on a pedestal too high or underplay you. View quote
Sonny Bill Williams