Quotes and Sayings about Idols
"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."
- Simone de Beauvoir
(Related: Power, Fact, Idols, Man, May, Will)
"Every one of us is, even from his mother's womb, a master craftsman of idols."
- John Calvin
(Related: Mother, Idols)
"God is not present in idols. Your feelings are your god. The soul is your temple."
- Chanakya
(Related: God, Soul, Feelings, Temple, Idols, Present)
"Literature and philosophy both allow past idols to be resurrected with a frequency which would be truly distressing to a sober scientist."
- Morris Raphael Cohen
(Related: Idols, Literature, Past, Philosophy)
"Lastly, literature and philosophy both allow past idols to be resurrected with a frequency which would be truly distressing to a sober scientist."
- Morris Raphael Cohen
(Related: Idols, Literature, Past, Philosophy)
"Again, both literature and philosophy work by appealing to certain reigning idols."
- Morris Raphael Cohen
(Related: Work, Idols, Literature, Philosophy)
"My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture."
- Natalie Cole
(Related: Culture, Idols)
"Thus they have an idol that they petition for victory in war; another for success in their labors; and so for everything in which they seek or desire prosperity, they have their idols, which they honor and serve."
- Hernando Cortes
(Related: Success, War, Victory, Desire, Honor, Idols, Prosperity)
"We want our idols to be dead because it makes death a much less scary place."
- Doug Coupland
(Related: Death, Idols, Want)
"But the disparaging of those we love always alienates us from them to some extent. We must not touch our idols; the gilt comes off in our hands."
- Gustave Flaubert
(Related: Love, Idols)
"Any time you're mentioned in the same breath as Tony Esposito, for whatever reason, it's a great honor. He's one of my idols. He's one of the greatest of all time."
- Curtis Joseph
(Related: Time, Honor, Idols, Reason)
"We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so."
- B. B. King
(Related: Care, Idols, Play)
"My idols are all older."
- Kelly Lynch
(Related: Idols)
"No, I like being a role model because I know how much comfort my musical idols brought me."
- Shirley Manson
(Related: Being, Comfort, Idols)
"The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish."
- Pope John Paul II
(Related: Family, Society, Life, People, Comfort, Danger, Fact, Independence, Idols, Lies, Pleasure)
"It would be really great if people would realize that stars are only people with the same weaknesses and flaws, not immaculate idols."
- Meg Ryan
(Related: People, Flaws, Idols, Stars)
"I have no idols. I admire work, dedication and competence."
- Ayrton Senna
(Related: Work, Competence, Dedication, Idols)
"As far as advice to potential teenage idols, there is no formula."
- Bobby Sherman
(Related: Advice, Formula, Idols, Potential, Teenage)
"They were marketing me as a teen idol, when the stuff on the record was not what teen idols were doing at the time."
- Rick Springfield
(Related: Teen, Time, Idols, Marketing)
"I don't want to know about my biggest idols. I don't want to read their autobiographies, I don't want to find out what they're really like."
- Meg White
(Related: Idols, Want)
"It's cool to meet your idols. It's a good opportunity to travel. Those kinds of things are good."
- Meg White
(Related: Travel, Opportunity, Idols)