If you're put on a pedestal, you're supposed to behave yourself like a pedestal type of person. Pedestals actually have a limited circumference. Not much room to move around.
We have to put people on pedestals; otherwise, there's no one to knock off pedestals.
If the pedestal is beautiful the statue must be even more beautiful.
I was writing a chapter of Beautiful Evidence on the subject of the sculptural pedestal, which led to my thinking about what's up on the pedestal - the great leader.
When people get placed upon a pedestal - when they start chasing after that person on the pedestal - they become mannequin-like.
The kids put you on a pedestal. I didn't like it.
I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.
IT helps to think of the whole development thing as a process; you go in looking like a girl, and you'll come out at the other end looking like a woman. The stuff in the middle is just what everyone goes through, it;s almost never much fun.
Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
If you have to put someone on a pedestal, put teachers. They are society's heroes.
Heroes and scholars represent the opposite extremes... The scholar struggles for the benefit of all humanity, sometimes to reduce physical effort, sometimes to reduce pain, and sometimes to postpone death, or at least render it more bearable. In cont...
We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room.
Men have to descend from their pedestal and learn how to be more broadminded and spiritual.
The practice of putting women on pedestals began to die out when it was discovered that they could give orders better from there.
I don't think actors need to go on pedestals. I don't buy it.
When smashing monuments, save the pedestals - they always come in handy.
I'm not set on a pedestal where I think I'm too high and mighty.
I think... I'm perceived as an everyperson. There is no pedestal. I'm no different from anybody else.
If you place belief on a pedestal, it will become your prison.
If you put people up on pedestals, there's only one way for them to go, and that is down.
Hollywood people want to build you up and make you famous only to knock you off you're the pedestal they built for you.
