Quotes About Idol

Freddie Mercury, to me, was probably the most important frontman to me growing up.

For the past two years, the only thing the 'Idol' machine has been doing has been maliciously attacking my name.

If you isolate yourself, you will become weird," Father Marc continued. "It is a tricky balance between allowing freedom and openness on the one hand, and maintaining a community identity on the other. The idea of community itself should not be allowed to become an idol. A community is a living organism that must change and grow and adapt.

But an acceptable Christianity is not Christian; a comprehensible God is no more than an idol. I don't want that kind of God.

An icon is not meant to be an idol. Just a reminder that love is greater than hate.

She's my teacher, my adviser, my greatest inspiration.

Nothing is gained and much is lost when a life spirals into idolatry—no matter how much creative image bearing may also be preserved by the mysterious workings of common grace. Had Jobs been able to turn from his more extreme forms of god playing, his life might have yielded much more, not less, lasting cultural fruit.

The creation of an idol is textbook mob behavior. Crowds, Le Bon says, can only grasp the "very simple and very exaggerated."2 They respond to images that "assume a very absolute, uncompromising, and simple shape."3 And so, just as Clinton and Obama, for example, represented everything good to the mob, Reagan and Bush represented everything loathsome.

Not that there wasn't still plenty of subduing to do here in North America. Even within our own limits, the savage still lights his death fires, to appease the wrath of an idol, he points out. What's worse, to the north, there is an immense region of palpable darkness. (Hi, Canada!)

Man's mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that he will forsake God and forge some idol in his own brain.

John Barry was my hero when I was about 13. His scores to the James Bond movies were the scores of my life back then.

When people see you on the screen, you become bigger than life.

A person who believes in the presence of God in own soul is not seeing worshiping idol with the people.

I kind of look up to Lewis, not as a hero, but as a very good driver who is very fast. Everyone has to admire his pace, especially in qualifying. He is a driver I support, in terms of him being British, and I want him to win, but he isn't an idol to me.

Rijkaard was my idol, but we have different qualities, even if at the beginning we played in the same position.

I wanted to be a quarterback. I used to like Johnny Unitas, the old quarterback for the Colts.

Muhammad Ali was a god, an idol and an icon. He was boxing. Any kid that had the opportunity to talk to Ali, to get advice from Muhammad Ali, was privileged. He's always given me time to ask questions, although I was so in awe that I didn't ask questions.

My idol was always Tomas Rosicky. He used to be phenomenal. He had such a good eye for an opening and knew where his team-mates were, and he was so quick.

Paul Pogba is a revelation and my idol is Lillian Thuram. I'm inspired by the best and he was always a quick and safe defender.

My favorite was Jeff Gordon. I just followed him growing up because I started watching racing when he came on the scene.

I'm not really the kind of person that wanted this kind of big attention everywhere. But on the other side, I'm glad that children are picking up a racket and they have an idol in myself.

I saw Rain dance on TV and decided that I wanted to sing and dance like him.

This is random, but I thought I was going to have the biggest Backstreet Boys fansite. I'm not even gonna lie: I thought I was gonna marry one of the Backstreet Boys, and I was gonna be his Yoko Ono.

I started to sing after high school, and I may have dreamed about being Randy Travis a time or two.