Idolatry is really not good for anyone. Not even the idols.

To the timid soul, nothing is possible.

Idolatry is really not good for anyone. Not even the idols.

Kids love rabbits... they just like them.

The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.

My idols are all older.

Any time you're mentioned in the same breath as Tony Esposito, for whatever reason, it's a great honor. He's one of my idols. He's one of the greatest of all time.

It's cool to meet your idols. It's a good opportunity to travel. Those kinds of things are good.

No, I like being a role model because I know how much comfort my musical idols brought me.

But the disparaging of those we love always alienates us from them to some extent. We must not touch our idols; the gilt comes off in our hands.

My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.

We want our idols to be dead because it makes death a much less scary place.

I don't want to know about my biggest idols. I don't want to read their autobiographies, I don't want to find out what they're really like.

Lastly, literature and philosophy both allow past idols to be resurrected with a frequency which would be truly distressing to a sober scientist.

It would be really great if people would realize that stars are only people with the same weaknesses and flaws, not immaculate idols.

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

Idolatry is really not good for anyone. Not even the idols.

Again, both literature and philosophy work by appealing to certain reigning idols.

Thus they have an idol that they petition for victory in war; another for success in their labors; and so for everything in which they seek or desire prosperity, they have their idols, which they honor and serve.

They were marketing me as a teen idol, when the stuff on the record was not what teen idols were doing at the time.

As far as advice to potential teenage idols, there is no formula.

Literature and philosophy both allow past idols to be resurrected with a frequency which would be truly distressing to a sober scientist.

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

All the idols made by man, however terrifying they may be, are in point of fact subordinate to him, and that is why he will always have it in his power to destroy them.

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

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

Code writers, they are my idols.

I don't have any idols, any heroes, nothing, no.

I try to reach out to my idols.

I've been very lucky. I've written for most of my idols and the contemporaries.

My idols are Oprah and Martha. From nothing, they built industries.

Never had any idols, ever. I never had any posters, nothing.

You are my only one and I will never ever let you down.

If it's a man's world, as they say, then men, your world is a poorly run carnage fest.

I don't know whether schooling would have helped me get farther along in music at this time. I doubt it would have.

I refuse to totally grow up. I've always been someone who says and does things that push politically correct boundaries.

In hindsight, I see the great value of family and how it moulded my life and kept me together. So now family means everything to me.

The Austin music scene is the reason why so many of them moved here.

Being a decathlete is like having ten girlfriends. You have to love them all, and you can't afford losing one.

I have a staff of 12 people, so it's easy for them to handle all the management and the day to day at the company while I'm directing.

Mysteries are not necessarily miracles.

Love is unconditional, relationships are not.

I remember in '37 when trolley cars were so big in New York. It was five cents for a ride... There used to be open-air buses, and you could go up a spiral staircase and sit up on top. Those were great, great days.

When I started work at Simon & Schuster in 1958, each of us got a bronze paperweight on which was written, in raised type, ''Give the reader a break,' Richard E. Simon.

Sometimes cameras and television are good to people and sometimes they aren't. I don't know if its the way you say it, or how you look.

I want to prove that if you write in strict meter and rhyme about subjects people care about, they will buy poetry.

Willpower is so common among highly successful people that many see its characteristics as synonymous with success.

I'm kind of a chatterbox and I talk really fast.

Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.