The top 24 American Idol TV talent search contestants for 2008, Season 7, are picked and ready to begin competing on FOX TV's ultra-popular reality tv show.
Naturally, fans and watchers of the show are interested in learning about the contestants. Here is a bit of insight into American Idol's Top 24, through their favorite quotes, as stated on the American Idol website.
American Idol Contestants, Their Favorite Quotes, and More About the Inspirational Words
(Note: Where possible, quotes have been corrected and attributed to the correct person.)
- Brooke White: "Shower the people you love with love!" - James Taylor
- Alaina Whitaker: "The desire for success should be greater than the fear of failure." - Bill Cosby (Quoted on Thinkexist as "In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.")
- Alexandrea Lushington: "You're only as good as your last game."
- Amanda Overmyer: "I was born a long way from home. I have spent my whole life just trying to get back." - Janis Joplin
- Amy Davis: "His grace is sufficient for me." - adapted from 2Corinthians 12:9
- Asia'h Epperson: "Speak it into existence! You receive blessings through struggle. Appreciate it!"
- Carly Smithson: "We are the makers of music and we are the dreamers of dreams." - Willy Wonka (Correct quote: "We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams." Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and the character Willy Wonka, created by Roald Dahl.) This quote is from the 1971 movie Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.
- Kady Alexis Malloy: "Carpe diem." (Sieze the Day) - Horace (65 BC - 8 BC)
- Kristy Lee Cook: "Rope it, ride it, wrestle it, cowgirl it."
- Joanne Borgella: "That which doesn't kill will only make you stronger." (Also quoted as: That which does not kill us makes us stronger. - Friedrich Nietzsche.)
- Ramiele Macrowon Malubay: "If you're hated, you're doing something right."
- Syesha Mercado: "Be the change that you want to see in the world." - Mahatma Gandhi (Sources quote this several ways)
- Chikezie Eze: "Legends are made where genius meets hard work and timing."
- Danny Noriega: Didn't give a favorite quote.
- David Archuleta: "You'll never be lonely if you learn to befriend yourself."
- David Cook: "Pain don't hurt." - Patrick Swayze in "Roadhouse
- David Hernandez: "Believe it, and you'll see it. Know it and you'll be it." - Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
- Colton Berry: "Hey, girl, hey!" - J-Shin (song lyric)
- Garrett Haley: "Go big or go home." - Eliza Dushku
- Jason Castro: "In the end, it will all be ok. If it's not ok, then it's not the end!"
- Jason Yeager: "Jeremiah 29:11" ("For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the LORD, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.") (From the Holy Bible, New King James Version, per BibleGateway.com)
- Robbie Carrico: "If you think you can or you think you can't, you're right!" - Henry Ford
- Luke Menard: "Don't fight. But if you have to... hit first and hit hard."
- Michael Johns: "It's better to be a has been than a never was." - Sam Donaldson
Also see American Idol Top 5 Singers 2008, David Archuleta American Idol 2008 and American Idol Favorite Quotes 2008.
Also see this Squidoo Lens site on American Idol - tons of videos, info, more! Check out this David Cook American Idol 2008 website for videos, products, great photos, and news about David.
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