Quotes About Idols

There's an innocent displacement, a dreaming, and idols are perfect for a little girl's dreaming. They aren't real. They aren't the gas station attendant trying to lure you into the back of the service station, a paperboy trying to lure you into a toolshed, a friend's father trying to lure you into his car. They don't lure. They beckon, but like desert mirages.

I love Marty Robbins, I love Glen Campbell, Loretta Lynn, Patsy Cline.

I never really looked up to celebrities when I was young.

I liked movers and shakers more than celebrities. I wasn't that interested in celebrities. I grew up without a TV.

I don't get starstruck by Hollywood celebrities as I'm not into films.

When I first started getting into wrestling, the three people I wanted to be like were the three Chrises: Chris Kanyon, Chris Jericho and Chris Benoit.

I was always looking up to supermodels. They were, like, my superheroes.

This is the deal: we are happy to single out people as superior just as long as they don't accept the description themselves. We want heroes and idols, but we also want egalitarianism, and that requires proclamations of humility from our gods.

I love superstars.

When I started supporting Man United, Dwight Yorke and Andy Cole were my heroes growing up.

It is surprising how many professional athletes, along with their families and friends, are gaga over movie and music stars, and the reverse is true with entertainers and sports stars.

Human beings cannot endure emptiness and desolation; they will fill the vacuum by creating a new focus of meaning. The idols of fundamentalism are not good substitutes for God; if we are to create a vibrant new faith for the twenty-first century, we should, perhaps, ponder the history of God for some lessons and warnings.

The idols of fundamentalism are not good substitutes for God; if we are to create a vibrant new faith for the twenty-first century, we should, perhaps, ponder the history of God for some lessons and warnings.

Men are idol factories.

Man may content himself with the applause of the world and the homage paid to his intellect, but woman's heart has holier idols.

I grew up idolizing these men, like Arnold Schwarzenegger. I loved Sly (Stallone). I loved Bruce Willis. These guys embodied everything that action was in the 80s and 90s.

Vain-glorious men are the scorn of the wise, the admiration of fools, the idols of paradise, and the slaves of their own vaunts.

Men show no mercy and expect no mercy, when honor calls, or when they fight for their idols or their gods.

There was an old abbot in one temple and he said something of which I think often and it was this, that when men destroy their old gods they will find new ones to take their place.

I worked with everybody, the best, and they actually paid me money to stand next to the people I idolized.

Every one of us is, even from his mother's womb, a master craftsman of idols.

Gods always behave like the people who make them.

A man becomes what he dreams. And I dreamed of being in the movies. I was brought up on Steve McQueen, Clint Eastwood, Warren Beatty, and Cary Grant.

We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.