Quotes About Idol

A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol.

Faith is being idealistic, because we have made an idol out of the status quo.

It was nice when you could look up to your parent, even as an adult, and think, This is who I fucking want to be when I grow up.

JOHN WATERS: In Cry-Baby Traci played a sexpot-which is always the best way to rid yourself of an image, by playing it and making fun of it. That's what Johnny Deep did, too. He was on Jump Street, and he hated playing a teen idol, so I said, stick with us; we'll kill that. And we did - in the right way, you know?

It wasn't until I saw James Dean that I began to think that maybe I could actually do this. Movies didn't have to be just this fantasy with this impossibly handsome guy.

The first few games that we played against some of the teams, the young guys, you know, want a stick sign or photo sign, and I think that they respect what I have achieved throughout my career.

An American Idol is someone that has all the qualities that America thinks is positive, attractive and alluring.

I can't watch American Idol... it's like karaoke without the booze.

My father gave me some advice when I was very young - whatever someone tells you in the future, don't forget Pele is the best.

O how many follow them today, people full of envy and the gall of vengefulness who fashion I do not know what kind of idol of jealousy for themselves and lie about the severity of righteousness as they seek the most obstinate lie!

I want to thank my parents for letting me play baseball. I'm thankful I had baseball knuckles and couldn't become a dentist...I got $2,100 a year when I started in the big league, and they get more money now. ...I chased the balls that Babe Ruth hit.

Dog: A kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship." AMBROSE BIERCE (1842

When Michael Jordan quit, I suddenly found myself without a sports hero.

An idol-house of six dimensions is this world; for this Somnath, has all by it, been created.* It is not in its way, for it to go on repeating… I'm not you, you are not I; this, I'm repeating!

And what fan wouldn't want to be on the receiving end of Taylor's gap-toothed smile.

Like every alternative to Christianity, the mechanistic worldview was essentially a substitute religion, a mental idol.

An idol is anything in the created order that is put in the place of God.

According to Romans 1, those who reject the Creator will create an idol.

Back then, my idol was Bugs Bunny, because I saw a cartoon of him playing ball — you know, the one where he plays every position himself with nobody else on the field but him? Now that I think of it, Bugs is still my idol. You have to love a ballplayer like that.

What you believe in is the pagan idol. God has words, as one would think. Think about it. The thing that first clearly alerted God's presence to us was what? It was words. It was the Gospels.

The real test of spiritual focus is being able to bring your thoughts and imagination under control. Is your mind focused on the face of an idol? Is the idol yourself? Is it your work?

A representation, which is collectively mistaken for an ultimate—ought not to be called a representation. It is an idol. Thus the phenomena themselves are idols, when they are imagined as enjoying that independence of human perception which can in fact only pertain to the unrepresented.

I have the greatest respect for Tony Iommi.

Rock stars are like prophets. There's something about somebody who can get up on a stage and sing. And then when they write you songs, forget it, okay?