#ido

Don't go on American Idol, I think you'll spend the rest of your life living it down and I think it's getting kinda scary, isn't it? ↗

— Joe Cocker

#american idol #down #getting #go #i

The bosses of our mass media, press, radio, film and television, succeed in their aim of taking our minds off disaster. Thus, the distraction they offer demands the antidote of maximum concentration on disaster. ↗

— Ernst Fischer

#antidote #bosses #concentration #demands #disaster

I think I find new idols every day - someone that says something really inspiring, is successful, has character. ↗

— Miranda Lambert

#day #every #every day #find #i

The problem is that during the 1980s, a decade of heavy poaching, the elephants retreated to safer areas. And now people have moved into the corridors once used by the elephants. ↗

— Richard Leakey

#corridors #decade #during #elephants #heavy

If you elect a matinee idol mayor, you're going to have a musical comedy administration. ↗

— Robert Moses

#comedy #elect #going #idol #mayor

Instead of plotting the demise of the traditional family, as some politicians and religious leaders would have you believe, gay people mow their lawns and watch 'American Idol' and video their children's concerts and have the same hopes and dreams that their straight counterparts do. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#american idol #believe #children #concerts #counterparts

Widow. The word consumes itself. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#itself #widow #word

The Internet is like alcohol in some sense. It accentuates what you would do anyway. If you want to be a loner, you can be more alone. If you want to connect, it makes it easier to connect. ↗

— Esther Dyson

#idolatry #internet #technology #internet

I've been waiting a long time for a quest, seaweed brain," she said. "Athena is no fan of Poseidon, but if you're going to save the world, I'm the best person to keep you from messing up. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#athena #percy-jackson #poseidon #brain

I couldn’t miss Percy’s fifteenth birthday,” Poseidon said. “Why, if this were Sparta, Percy would be a man today!” That’s true,” Paul said. “I used to teach ancient history.” Poseidon’s eyes twinkled. “That’s me. Ancient history. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#poseidon #teaching