#idol

The denigration of those we love always detaches us from them in some degree. Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fingers. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#idolatry #idols #love-disappointment #love

But I guess you would look beatific, too, if the man you had been in love with since the fifth grade had told you that he was in love with you, too. ↗

— Meg Cabot

#teen-idol #thatsaquote #love

They smile that smile, they bat those eyes. They steal with hello, they kill you with goodbye. They're the perfect drug. As you're walking away, you hear that sweet voice, 'Stay. ↗

— Scotty McCreery

#girls #love #love

You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#fundamentalism #god #humor #idolatry #spirituality

mysterious money had stood to him as the symbol of earthly good, and the immediate object of toil. He had seemed to love it little in the years when every penny had its purpose for him; for he loved the purpose then. But now, when all purpose was gone, that habit of looking towards the money and grasping it with a sense of fulfilled effort made a loam that was deep enough for the seeds of desire. ↗

— George Eliot

#idolatry #money #love

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 Hughes Galeano

#idol #inspiration #soccer #inspirational

Every girl creates a dream in her mind; everyone needs an idol. ↗

— Roberto Cavalli

#dream #every #everyone #girl #her

Apart from my absolute belief in National Socialism and my conviction of Hitler's superhuman heroism, I had always been attracted to Germany. ↗

— Lord Haw Haw (William Joyce)

#idol #inspiration #strength #inspirational

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

#idol #inspirational #so-true #inspirational

I was on TV for almost sixteen weeks during American Idol. It's at the point now where it's old. ↗

— Clay Aiken

#american #american idol #during #i #idol