#pedestal

People see you sing in a certain way, in a long dress, and you are put on a pedestal like you have never made a mistake in your life. ↗

— Katherine Jenkins

#certain way #dress #life #like #long

A lot of people put all that stuff on a pedestal, and they won't touch it. But I don't think that's the reason they did that. I think they played that stuff out of pure joy. ↗

— Brian Setzer

#i #i think #joy #lot #out

Lesson learned: Don’t ever put a guy up on a pedestal. It’s too easy for him to tip over and fall off. ↗

— Kate Madison

#guys #memoir #pedestal #dating

The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#after #another #arrogance #centrality #common

I'm not set on a pedestal where I think I'm too high and mighty. ↗

— Naomi Campbell

#i #i think #mighty #pedestal #set

I don't think any player lives up to his potential, because people out there put you so high on a pedestal, you'll never be as good as they expect. ↗

— Eric Davis

#because #expect #good #high #his

You get built up and put on a pedestal and then people want to bring you down. It can be hurtful. Some people try to make me look bad or not a nice person but it's completely false. ↗

— Avril Lavigne

#bring #built #completely #down #false

When smashing monuments, save the pedestals - they always come in handy. ↗

— Stanislaw Lec

#come #handy #monuments #pedestals #save

A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space. ↗

— Gloria Steinem

#confined #confined space #much #pedestal #prison

The practice of putting women on pedestals began to die out when it was discovered that they could give orders better from there. ↗

— Betty Grable

#better #could #die #discovered #give