Top 376 Idols Quotes & Sayings

I've already played against some of my biggest idols.

I'll never be on the level of my idols.

The highlight of my career was my first sale, to F&SF, in 1989. Nothing yet has topped that moment. I was weeping in joy and relief. Publishing one story was all that I ever wanted, or expected. Everything since then - award nominations, getting into best-of anthologies, meeting my idols at conventions, drinking with my idols at conventions - has been wonderful, but it's all gravy.

A country without idols is nothing.

Howard Stern is one of my idols.

I think we’re at the stage where we’re not musicians but not idols either. In a way, we also feel bad for being called idols

Dead metaphors make strong idols.

When I grew up, one of comedy idols was Rowan Atkinson, who of course is Mr. Bean and uses physical comedy. Same with Jim Carrey. Both of those guys. And Peter Sellers. Most of my comedy idols are physical comics.

I can put all the idols on my bed and sleep, I'm so fond of them.

I think we all grow up with idols and things like that.

Even our pets can become idols.

Guard against idols -- yes, guard against all idols, of which surely the greatest is oneself.

Love ... is a sacred fire that must not be burnt to idols.

In my heart, I know I'm just as talented as some of my idols.

I don't have any idols, I owe it all to hardwork, dedication and competence.

My idols are all older.

Idolatry is really not good for anyone. Not even the idols.

Man's nature, so to speak, is a perpetual factory of idols.

Concepts create idols; only wonder understands anything.

Those who worship gold in a world so corrupt as this we live in have at least one thing to plead in defense of their idolatry--the power of their idol. It is true that, like other idols, it can neither move, see, hear, feel, nor understand; but, unlike other idols, it has often communicated all these powers to those who had them not, and annihilated them in those who had. This idol can boast of two peculiarities; it is worshipped in all climates, without a single temple, and by all classes, without a single hypocrite.

I have two idols in my life - God and my mum.

Like all children, I spent a lot of time looking for idols.

We should have understood long ago that there is, in this world, religion without God, religion as a center of all idols that possess fallen man, religion that is the justification for these idols.

Every year, I feel really sad when I see Ganesha idols lying here and there after the visarjan. So it is my request to everyone to bring home eco-friendly idols.

The art of government is the organization of idolatry. The bureaucracy consists of functionaries; the aristocracy, of idols; the democracy, of idolaters. The populace cannot understand the bureaucracy: it can only worship the national idols.

The human heart is a factory of idols...Everyon e of us is, from his mother's womb, expert in inventing idols.

A Christian is someone who has turned to God from idols.

My idols are not in tennis.

Ronaldinho - he was one of my idols.

Prince is one of my biggest idols of all time, and he's the real King of Pop.

Code writers, they are my idols.

I watched Romario when I was young, and he was one of my idols.

It is difficult to take in that your idols are in the same place as you are.

I try to reach out to my idols.

We're not idols onstage. We're not the Rolling Stones.

My idols have always stuck to their guns and said what they want to do.

It is strange what society will endure from its idols.

It's great to get to work with your idols.

Money isn't an idol. It just shows you where your idols are.

You're trying to write for your idols. It's strange.

I don't know why all three, my comedic idols are... women.

As history shows, dead metaphors make good idols.

I love Frank Sinatra. He is one of my biggest all-time idols.

The toppling of idols - even respectable, admired, best-practice, fastest-growing idols - is always the road to liberation.

The smashing of idols is in itself such a preoccupation that it is almost impossible for the iconoclast to look clearly into a future when there will not be many idols left to smash.

Concepts create idols; only wonder comprehends anything. People kill one another over idols. Wonder makes us fall to our knees.

Ricky Martin is one of my idols in the industry.

God is worshipped only inpictures, images, idols.

My idols are Oprah and Martha. From nothing, they built industries.

But the idols of the Market Place are the most troublesome of all: idols which have crept into the understanding through their alliances with words and names. For men believe that their reason governs words. But words turn and twist the understanding. This it is that has rendered philosophy and the sciences inactive. Words are mostly cut to the common fashion and draw the distinctions which are most obvious to the common understanding. Whenever an understanding of greater acuteness or more diligent observation would alter those lines to suit the true distinctions of nature, words complain.

It's cool for young guys to see what their idols are doing.

The loving and much loved wife is satisfied with the love of her husband; his smile is her joy, she cares little for any other. So, if you have come to Christ, thy Maker is thine husband - His free love to you is all you need, and all you can care for - there is no cloud between you and God - there is no veil between you and the Father; you have access to Him who is the fountain of happiness - what have you to do any more with idols? Oh! If your heart swims in the rays of God's love, like a little mote swimming in the sunbeam, you will have no room in your heart for idols.

I have no idols. I admire work, dedication and competence.

To adapt a phrase, idols have consequences.

For Silicon Valley and its idols, innovation is the new selfishness.

The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone, the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood

It took many years to cleanse Arabia of its “false idols.” It will take many more to cleanse Islam of its new false idols-bigotry and fanaticism-worshipped by those who have replaced Muhammad's original vision of tolerance and unity with their own ideals of hatred and discord. But the cleansing is inevitable, and the tide of reform cannot be stopped. The Islamic Reformation is already here. We are all living in it.

As far as advice to potential teenage idols, there is no formula.

Bernard Hopkins is one of my idols.

All my idols have been in the studio with me, because they wanted to be there.