Quotes About Idols

I loved George Carlin and Dean Martin. I was one of those kids who had every comedy album.

We're entertainers, while people want us to be gods.

All beautiful, dangerous idols fall, I thought, if you keep your eye on them long enough.

she projects her own disability onto inanimate objects, painting clay idols, tables and various other artefacts with broken feet or wounded legs.

When I was a kid, I was a fan of comedy. I always loved Steve Martin, Chevy Chase, Bill Murray, and Dave Letterman - not an actor, obviously, but I'm still impressed by his wit. I wanted to emulate them because they made me laugh.

They say you don't want to meet your heroes, but those two guys, you do want to meet them, because they do not disappoint. Walken has this amazing sense of humor, and Pacino is like just a sweetheart of a guy.

The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.

YouTubers are the rock stars to this generation - the kids just love them, that's who they watch.

When I was, like, 8/9, I was obsessed with Jonathon Taylor Thomas and the band Hanson.

As far as heroes thorough the years, I'd say definitely Alabama and Randy Owen, Conway Twitty was a big influence of mine, George Strait, Lionel Richie.

At age 12, or even eight or nine, athletes were my role models. So when I would say I wanted to be the best, it was just because I was seeing my idols and wanted to do that. I don't think it necessarily was the most realistic thought process.

life had since become fast and cruel and unreflective, and people were too busy counting their gains to bother about the idols of their youth.

He liked to collect celebrities.

Symbolic thinking of any kind would signal downfall, in Crake's view. Next they'd be inventing idols, and funerals, and grave goods, and the afterlife, and sin, and Linear B, and kings, and then slavery and war.

I'm bad at picking heroes.

Watch out for art, Crake used to say. As soon as they start doing art, we're in trouble. Symbolic thinking of any kind would signal downfall, in Crake's view. Next they'd be inventing idols, and funerals, and grave goods, and the afterlife, and sin, and Linear B, and kings, and then slavery and war. Snowman longs to question them—who first had the idea of making a reasonable facsimile of him, of Snowman, out of a jar lid and a mop? But that will have to wait.

Watch out for art, Crake used to say. As soon as they start doing art, we're in trouble. Symbolic thinking of any kind would signal downfall, in Crake's view. Next they'd be inventing idols, and funerals, and grave goods, and the afterlife, and sin, and Linear B, and kings, and then slavery and war.

I've had heroes in my life - Joe DiMaggio, Babe Ruth.

People need heroes, in music and every aspect of life.

At Varanasi, according to Ferishta, Muhammad of Ghor and Qutb-ud-din Aybak demolished the idols in a thousand temples and then rededicated these shrines 'to the worship of the true God'.

My two rock idols are Jon Bon Jovi and Bruce Springsteen. Not just because they are from Jersey, but, because they conduct themselves with humility and give a lot back to the public and their respective communities. And, the fact they both ended up marrying someone that "knew them when" is something I admire and hope to have with Tina (Rinaldi) one day.

Bendita letra impresa que un día, al fin, derribará falsos ídolos. Que acabará despertando al pueblo embrutecido.

I have no idols. I respect hard work, dedication and competence

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