Quotes About Idols

Yet, if he would, man cannot live all to this world. If not religious, he will be superstitious. IF he worship not the true God, he will have his idols.

For although in that ancient and diffused adoration of Idols, unto the Priests and subtiler heads, the worship perhaps might be symbolical, and as those Images some way related unto their Deities; yet was the Idolatry direct and down-right in the people; whose credulity is illimitable, who may be made believe that any thing is God; and may be made believe there is no God at all.

I've got a record titled 'Idols Become Rivals,' and it's basically me writing a letter to someone in the game that I looked up to damn near the most, and I hate what things have come to.

Rachel Bilson, Nicole Richie, Vanessa Hudgens... so many of my idols growing up were Bongo girls.

When I was young I used to watch MTV, Nirvana, or Guns N' Roses.

statues of saints in somebody else's religion. To me they're just rock shaped into glorified nobodies.

Everywhere Magellan looked, there seemed to be an idol mocking him; they were even arrayed along the shore, and their appearance was disturbing to European sensibilities

God is not present in idols. Your feelings are your god. The soul is your temple.

They worshiped worthless idols, so they became worthless themselves.

I'm certain that your estimation of your mother and father was rather hyperbolic anyway. Parents are deified by their children, but as you can see, the idols in the temple have come tumbling down." He extended a foot and touched the woman's corpse.

Concepts create idols; only wonder understands anything.

Concepts create idols; only wonder grasps anything.

We shouldn't maltreat our idols: the gilt comes off on our hands.

Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fingers." (Il ne faut pas toucher aux idoles: la dorure en reste aux mains.)

Sans les traditions, pas de civilisation; sans la destruction de ces traditions, pas de progrès.....Ce n'est pas dans les temples qu'habitent les idoles les plus redoutables, ni dans les palais les tyrans les plus despotiques; ceux_ci peuvent être brisés en un instant; mais les maîtres invisibles qui règnent dans nos âmes échappent à tout effort de révolte, et ne cèdent qu'à la lente usure des siècles

Listen, don't meet your heroes. If you meet your heroes, you're always going to be disappointed.

I find the idea of today's icons being teenagers incredibly uninspiring.

They say never meet your heroes. But the addendum to that is 'unless they're Harrison Ford.'

The women I liked when I was growing up, as a little boy, were Anita Ekberg, Sophia Loren, Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor, because they had these curvaceous figures, and they were erotic to me.

Really, what I'm doing is an attempt to continue the best work of the people I adore: Francis Coppola and Scorsese and Robert Altman and Stanley Kubrick and those amazing directors whose work I grew up with and loved.

'E.T.' and 'Star Wars' were cult movies then and opened up a brand new world of adventure and mystery. But as much as I would have loved to be friends with E.T., I realized that following in the footsteps of Magic Johnson and Michael Jordan was more realistic.

I learned a lot about handling fans from established stars.

Statues of sports stars are all the rage - especially in baseball.

It's no secret that the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship is a huge dream of mine. There's been so many guys I looked up to - Pegasus Kid, Owen Hart, Liger, Prince Devitt, Kota Ibushi... the best of the best have held that belt.