Quotes by Pedestal Part of what I try to do in schools is take poetry off of a pedestal and make it a little more accessible and approachable. Sarah Kay pedestal trying school One thing I teach my children and want everyone to know that even if you happen to be on a pedestal you should have the capacity to turn around and say, 'I don't know'. We are scared to go wrong. Downfall is part of life. Shahrukh Khan pedestal should-have children I think celebrities are kind of put up on a pedestal and we don't really know much about them. I feel like my fans know every part of me because I've shown them. Shane Dawson pedestal fans thinking Celebrity is a pretty stunning thing. At first I was like 'They love me! Oh, I love them, too.' And suddenly, I was tap-dancing on my pedestal and it was whack! Facedown in the dirt. Sharon Stone pedestal dancing complaining Men put me on a pedestal, then never come to visit. Sharon Stone pedestal men It's interesting in American culture. We like to build people up and then push them off the pedestal, and then we want to see them come back. Like Britney Spears, and a lot of people, it's what we do, and it's not like that in other parts of the world. Simon Rex pedestal people interesting A writer is hoisted up onto a pedestal only to scrutinize him more closely and conclude that it was a mistake to put him up there in the first place. Simone de Beauvoir pedestal mistake firsts When smashing monuments, save the pedestals - they always come in handy. Stanislaw Jerzy Lec pedestal political sea I like to summarize what I regard as the pedestal-smashing messages of Darwin's revolution in the following statement, which might be chanted several times a day, like a Hare Krishna mantra, to encourage penetration into the soul: Humans are not the end result of predictable evolutionary progress, but rather a fortuitous cosmic afterthought, a tiny little twig on the enormously arborescent bush of life, which, if replanted from seed, would almost surely not grow this twig again, or perhaps any twig with any property that we would care to call consciousness. Stephen Jay Gould pedestal progress soul I am not a politician going around bragging about family values or putting myself on some ridiculous virtuous pedestal. I write comedy. And I am an actor. I am not going to solve the nation's problems. I don't actually spend my life in the way the tabloids like to think I do. I actually spend 95 percent of it writing comedy. Sober. Well, nearly sober anyway. Steve Coogan pedestal writing thinking It's still a mystery to me, but even though my mother was like an older sister to me, I kind of put her up on a pedestal. Steven Spielberg pedestal kind mother The moment you put someone on a pedestal they will look down upon you. The trick is respecting each other equally. Teresa Mummert pedestal moments looks Putting something called Nature on a pedestal and admiring it from afar does for the environment what patriarchy does for the figure of Woman. It is paradoxical act of sadistic admiration. Timothy Morton pedestal afar doe The main objects of all science, the freedom and happiness of man. . . . [are] the sole objects of all legitimate government. A plaque with this quotation, with the first phrase omitted, is in the stairwell of the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty. Thomas Jefferson pedestal liberty men I like to literally put women on a pedestal Vivienne Westwood pedestal shoes Shoes must have very high heels and platforms to put women's beauty on a pedestal. Vivienne Westwood pedestal shoes high-heels When a man's in love, he at once makes a pedestal of the Ten Commandments and stands on the top of them with his arms akimbo. When a woman's in love she doesn't care two straws for Thou Shalt and Thou Shalt Not. W. Somerset Maugham pedestal men two The tomb is the pedestal of greatness. I make a distinction between God's great and the king's great. Walter Savage Landor pedestal greatness kings Each generation takes a special pleasure in removing the household gods of its parents from their pedestals, and consigning them to the cupboard. William Ralph Inge pedestal parent special The pedestal is immobilizing and subtly insulting whether or not some women yet realize it. We must move up from the pedestal. Wilma Scott Heide pedestal insulting moving «12345»
