American Idol Audition Quotes

#1. A healthy democracy requires a decent society; it requires that we are honorable, generous, tolerant and respectful.

Charles W. Pickering

#2. Confidence is the prize given to the mediocre

Robert Hughes

#3. Frankly, if 'American Idol' was the way I'd have to audition as a singer, I'd be standing behind the counter in a 5&10 right now. I couldn't have done it that way.

Lesley Gore

#4. Newt correctly assumes that the American public is beginning to look down the road and at least distinguish the landmarks on either side and know where it wants go. We have a chance to lead it there.

Pete Du Pont

#5. All the things we achieve are things we have first of all imagined.

David Malouf

#6. God save us from people who think they're smarter than they actually are.

Michael Cunningham

#7. Do all men kill the things they do not love ... The quality of mercy is not strain'd
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath: it is twice blest
It blesseth him that gives and him that takes

William Shakespeare

#8. Give yourself a chance to see how much better life will get. And it will get better.

Joel Burns

#9. I was in a kind of no-man's-land, a place between places. The mind plays all sorts of tricks, gets up to all kinds of things while we ourselves are slumbering in a white zone that looks for all the world like inattention to the onlooker.

Diane Setterfield

#10. DJs and people in the street know what they like.

Roy Ayers