Idol Quotes

“I hope to write someday and that’s even more terrifying than performing. You don’t just entertain the audience, you give them little bits of your soul.”
― Chris Colfer

“It takes just one car-free idol; one mass trend; to set Earth's healing in motion.”
― San Mateo, San Mateo: Proof of The Divine

“The ball laughs, radiant, in the air. He brings her down, puts her to sleep, showers her with compliments, dances with her, and seeing such things never before seen his admirers pity their unborn grandchildren who will never see them.”
― Eduardo Galeano

“And one fine day the goddess of the wind kisses the foot of man, that mistreated, scorned foot, and from that kiss the soccer idol is born. He is born in a straw crib in a tin-roofed shack and he enters the world clinging to a ball.”
― Eduardo Galeano

“Just —looking through the chocolate," I said as casually as I could.”
― Lucy Gold, Bias

“By the time he painted Estefania's features, her appearance had already been hag-ridden and struck by sheer madness and delusion. But he still did what so many other male painters did before him; he created an idol.”
― Laura Gentile, Within Paravent Walls

“I think beyond the superficial accolades, at its core, fans stream and buy albums and merchs, because they want to show that they acknowledge the hard work of the artists and their staff. The stream count, album sales and awards are tangible proof that the idols’ music is good. That they are popular. That they are better.”
― Arushi Raj, Understand K-pop: Deconstructing the Obsession and Toxicity in K-pop Stan Culture

“Learn from your mistakes, take responsibility and forgive yourself.”
― Ariana Grande

“Ketika BTS membagi rasa sakitnya dan ARMY mencurahkan problem serta cerita kesulitannya melalui surat, media sosial, atau Fancafe, lalu BTS membuatkan lagu, rasanya ARMY seperti memiliki seorang teman, kekasih, kakak, atau orang tua yang akan mereka dengarkan.”
― Lea Yunkicha, BTS X ARMY In the Love Maze

“I can pretend to be my own god, but I have an awfully hard time pretending that failing to be a god didn’t happen.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“We tempt others to look down on us by telling them that we look up to them.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“La musica ha il potere di unire le persone» dissi. «Non importa l’età, il colore della pelle o l’educazione che ci è stata imposta, non siamo soli se condividiamo una canzone con qualcuno.”
― Elisa Fumis, Sarang: Il coraggio di amare

“There's nothing exciting about my life," Leyla said. "I mean, you've already seen where I live."
I couldn't hide my self-satisfied smile as I looked out at the sun setting between the buildings, fiery orange. "Thanks to my detective skills."
"Some people would call that stalking."
I thought for a second. "Well, YOU'VE basically assaulted me. Twice."
"Let's call it even.”
― Lucy Gold, Behind the Idol - A K-pop Romance

“A los ídolos es mejor no tocarlos porque algo de la pintura dorada que los recubría se nos queda siempre entre las manos”
― Flaubert Gustave, Madame Bovary

“Ideals are good to give direction to our lives. However, when ideals become an end in themselves, they become a problem rather than the solution. The ideal worship has caused as much destruction to the world as the idol worship.”
― Awdhesh Singh, Myths are Real, Reality is a Myth

“We live in a society where some of the public idols are actually the villains that are willfully damaging the health of the next generation.”
― Steven Magee

“Jack Taylor put it this way: "an idol is something you have to check with before you say yes to God".”
― Kris Vallotton, Heavy Rain: How You Can Transform the World Around You

“No dreamy reality could ever equal my first ever concert in São Paulo, when the crowd lifted a girl over their heads towards me, and as she came closer I could see that she held a white stick, and closer still I could see that she was blind, and as the crowd placed her gently on the stage she handed me a note which read, 'I cannot see you, but I love you.”
― Morrissey, Autobiography

“Question: But I have heard people say that Buddhists worship idols.

Answer: Such statements only reflect the misunderstanding of the persons who make them. The dictionary defines an idol as ‘an image or statue worshiped as a god.’ As we have seen, Buddhists do not believe that the Buddha was a god, so how could they possibly believe that a piece of wood or metal is a god? All religions use symbols to represent their various beliefs. In Taoism, the ying-yang diagram is used to sym-bolize the harmony between opposites. In Sikhism, the sword is used to symbolize spiritual struggle. In Christianity, the fish is used to symbolize Christ’s presence and a cross to represent his sacrifice. In Buddhism, the statue of the Buddha reminds us of the human dimension in Buddhist teaching, the fact that Buddhism is human-centered rather than god-centered, that we must look within, not without to find perfection and understanding.”
― Shravasti Dhammika, Good Question Good Answer

“Fundamentalism is a lot like idolatry because it renders truth into something stagnant and lifeless. For the Christian fundamentalist, God becomes something that can be understood in the mind- a conceptual idol.”
― Michael Gungor, The Crowd, The Critic And The Muse: A Book For Creators

“Upanishads have said against idol worship. Even Koran was against idol worship. What is the flaw of idol worshiping? Those, who worship idols do not have this knowledge that God is within this body. If you say anything to them, they will be agitated.”
― Sri Jibankrishna or Diamond

“Be your own idol.”
― Dahi Tamara Koch, Within the event horizon: poetry & prose

“Suonerà come un cliché, lo so, ma mi sembra veramente che sia passato solo un giorno da quando il mondo si fissò con quella canzone. Devo confessare che non mi piaceva. Tuttavia, non arriverei a dire che la odiavo. Non la calcolavo, e riconosco che mi dava fastidio quando la sentivo per la millesima volta mentre ero in giro. Anche se, tecnicamente, è stata la mia prima canzone K-pop, al tempo non avevo un’idea precisa di cosa fosse. Per me, era semplicemente una delle solite mode da social media che era andata troppo in là. E, come ogni altra moda, con il tempo “Gangnam Style” sarebbe sparita e avrebbe lasciato il posto ad altri tormentoni. Ma, senza che potessi immaginarlo, aveva posto le basi per qualcosa di più grande e permanente.”
― Arushi Raj, Alla Ricerca Di Holland: Quando la Musica è Speranza

“Codependent writers attempt to help people shift their focus and effort from other people to self. This merely exchanges one form of idolatry for another because whoever or whatever is the unbiblical focus of one's life is that person's idol.”
― Martin Bobgan, 12 Steps to Destruction: Codependecy/Recovery Heresies

“After all, that's what a real hero does, right? He realizes what makes him an idol to millions is not just spectacular dives and near-miraculous catches during his tenure on the field. Instead, the test of greatness is how a hero treats people after he has changed out of his uniform. That's what makes any life worth imitating.”
― Jeff Kinley

“But he was surly and capricious. Being an idol would not have suited him.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, The Curious Case of the Talking Mongoose

“When there is a ‘collective concentration’ (consider it a form of Energy) gets focused at some objective, the object becomes a ‘source of Energy’.”
― Sandeep Sahajpal, The Twelfth Preamble: To all the authors to be!

“When there is a ‘collective concentration’ (consider it a form of Energy) gets focused at some Object, the Onject becomes a ‘source of Energy’.”
― Sandeep Sahajpal, The Twelfth Preamble: To all the authors to be!

“He lives forever in his words, in his poems, and in his stories. An inspiration to many writers and poets all around the world. The man who became immortal by his words, the one and only - Ernest Hemingway.”
― Avijeet Das

“When there is a ‘collective concentration’ (consider it a form of Energy) gets focused at some Object, the Object becomes a ‘Source of Energy’.”
― Sandeep Sahajpal, The Twelfth Preamble: To all the authors to be!