Quotes About Dead Idols

#1. Dead metaphors make strong idols.

Marcia Falk

#2. Popular culture is the new Babylon, into which so much art and intellect now flow. It is our imperial sex theater, supreme temple of the western eye. We live in the age of idols. The pagan past, never dead, flames again in our mystic hierarchies of stardom.

Camille Paglia

#3. Free Trader Beowulf - you had to be at least forty and a recovering pen-and-paper role-playing-gamer to get the reference, but it was apt. Google it.

Lev Grossman

#4. When you make pain look this good it never wears out.

Kelly Rowland

#5. Never let anyone know what you are thinking.

Mario Puzo

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

Douglas Coupland

#7. If you hate life, you haven't seen enough of it. If you hate your life, it's because your life is too small and doesn't fit you.

Augusten Burroughs

#8. We have strayed from the Immortal's ways And worship with a dull and senseless mind Idols, the workmanship of our own hands, And images and figures of dead men.

Justin Martyr

#9. Yes, we have much to be seriously concerned about, much that needs to be corrected, improved, or dispensed with. But the vitality and creative energy, the fundamental decency, the tolerance and insistence on truth, and the good-heartedness of the American people are there still plainly. Many

David McCullough

#10. Guitarists should be able to pick up the guitar and play music on it for an hour, without a rhythm section or anything.

Joe Pass

#11. As history shows, dead metaphors make good idols.

Elizabeth A. Johnson

#12. God is dead, the God of love, of gentleness and consolation, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob had, under the watchful gaze of this child, vanished forever into the smoke of the human holocaust demanded by the Race, the most voracious of all idols. And

Elie Wiesel

#13. What happens when your world ends? Your lover steals your heart ... and your father casts you out ... and you fall.

Garth Ennis

#14. Twentieth-century culture's disease is the inability to feel their reality. People cluster to TV, soap operas, movies, theater, pop idols and they have wild emotion over symbols. But in the reality of their own lives, they're emotionally dead.

Jim Morrison

#15. After I am dead, I would rather have men ask why Cato has no monument than why he had one.

Cato The Elder

#16. Sometimes I wish there were do over years or fast forward days

Simone Elkeles

#17. To teach how to live without certainty, and yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can still do for those who study it.

Bertrand Russell

#18. The Bible becomes a dead idol when we call the words between its covers inerrant, infallible, to be taken literally. This is not a dead book. It is alive. Open it carefully because the new truth that might come leaping out at you could change your life forever.

Mel White

#19. Our business is communication oftentimes through the medium of stories but our capacity has a far greater scope - to entertain certainly, but also to stimulate debate, to mark up changes and differences and that way, to maybe, just now and then, to change the world.

Sara Sheridan