Idolised Quotes & Sayings

Dwayne Hoover's and Kilgore Trout's country, where there was still plenty of everything, was opposed to Communism. It didn't think that Earthlings who had a lot should share it with others unless they really wanted to, and most of them didn't want to. So they didn't have to. *** — Kurt Vonnegut

Sad to hear of Paul Scholes retirement! One of the best midfielders to grace the Premiership! Idolised him for years! Legend. — Jordan Henderson

Umm, there are so many people that I've never had one person that I've particularly idolised or I thought "Wow, I want to be just like them". It used to be when I was younger, Julia Roberts, I used to just love her. There is something so appealing about her. — Emma Watson

Apostles of Freedom are ever idolised when dead, but crucified when alive. — James Connolly

I don't need to worry about being idolised. — Li Na

NOW is the most abundant moment of your life. — Robert Holden

And so popular culture raises issues that are very important, actually, in the country I think. You get issues of the First Amendment rights and issues of drug use, issues of AIDS, and things like that all arise naturally out of pop culture. — Kurt Loder

I view my strongest competition as myself. You're always trying to top yourself, rather than worrying about what other people are doing. — John C. Reilly

I object to a legal approach when settling questions of science or scientific behavior. — Serge Lang

Green consumerism generally, and 'healthy' products and lifestyles in particular, contain quite precise notions about how an individual should consider his or her well-being. Not only is the market-place celebrated but an understanding of the 'natural body' itself becomes fetishised and idolised. Normality seems to have wholly dispensed with bodily illness and pain. Perfection is the norm, and one that can be gained through acquiring the correct products and perfecting the body. — Peter Dickens

Growing up, I idolised Madhuri Dixit. She's my favourite actress, and I used to pretend I was her all the time. — Lilly Singh

While I was vowing to save Nick, he had taken on the job of being my protector and staunchest defender — Katherine Allred

For me, Fitzgerald was one of the great American writers of the last century; a wordsmith, a storyteller, a perfectionist. — Robert Littell

I've had people following me home or standing outside my house. It's strange. I just don't think people were meant to be worshipped or idolised. — Matthew Morrison

It is no compliment to be the stupidly idolised master of a dog whose instinct it is to idolise, but it is a very distinct tribute to be chosen as the friend and confidant of a philosophic cat who is wholly his own master and could easily choose another companion if he found such an one more agreeable and interesting. — H.P. Lovecraft

It is hard to follow one great vision in this world of darkness and of many changing shadows. Among those men get lost. — Black Elk

I'll play drums a lot at home, and it will help my wrist action. — Tommy Bolin

Nature creates nothing without a purpose. — Aristotle.

Pride is one of the socially acceptable sins in some corners of the evangelical culture. It's just straight-out ego gratification - how important I am; whether my name gets on the building or on the TV program or in the magazine article. — Richard Foster

Anyone who takes on my sister," he had postured once, all puffed-out bravado, "will have to deal with ... my sister." And then he'd dived behind her and cowered. — Laini Taylor

The nuclear bomb is the most useless weapon ever invented. It can be employed to no rational purpose. It is not even an effective defense against itself. — George F. Kennan

I idolised bands like Pearl Jam and Smashing Pumpkins, who wanted to reach as many people as they could. — Nate Ruess