Icons Quotes

I don't want to be an icon. I want to be an idea. I want to represent possibilities.

My icons do not raise up the blessed savior in elaborate cathedrals. They are constructed concentrations celebrating barren rooms. They bring a limited light.

I think the key is - other icons told me this - you don't have to chase the money. The money is going to chase you. That's part of success. That's part of the blessings.

I'm listening to a lot of oldies.A lot of Al Green, Marvin Gaye. Luther Vandross... they were some of my icons.

When you compare the icons of the game, you have Sunil Gavaskar, Kapil Dev, Sachin Tendulkar and Dhoni in the same bracket.

I like individuality in fashion - it annoys me when celebrities put on a bodycon dress and a pair of high heels and suddenly they are 'style icons.'

The bicycle is a former child's toy that has now been elevated to icon status because, presumably, it can move the human form from pillar to post without damage to the environment.

It's a mark of any icon that it should be open to iconoclasm.

That thing about being an icon, the fifth Beatle, I just found it so freaky.

I don't think that I want to meet any of the icons. I don't think that anybody can quite live up to your expectations.

I really would not call myself a fashion icon. I would call myself somebody who gets dressed by professionals...I would call me more of a monkey.

There was something about Marilyn. She couldn't act her way out of a bag, but she became an icon because something happened between her and the lens, and no one knows what it is.

Until the album is perfect and every track sounds like a single and has a world-renowned icon on it, it's not done.

Eddie [Murphy] is an icon. He's one of the reason why I started doing comedy in the beginning. He opened a lot of doors for black people.

Wes Craven is obviously a horror film icon so I was definitely very interested in bringing something back to life that Wes had created.

Self-publishing is great, but I don't want to be an icon for it, or anything else.

I like to believe that rather than destroy icons, I make new ones.

I don't see myself as an icon, because I just wear whatever I want to wear.

I dont want to be compared to Brad Pitt because I dont want to, you know, disappoint anybody. Brad Pitt is an icon.

I'm more than an actor. I'm an icon, an industry.

We've never performed the song live outside of recording it in the studio. That was a dream come true because Whitney, she's an icon and she's been one of my main mentors in this business.

Mexico has lost an icon whose work has transcended generations and borders.

When I was a ten-year old bookworm and used to kiss the dust jacket pictures of authors as if they were icons, it used to amaze me that these remote people could provoke me to love.

It's always intimidating to meet an icon.

I was just thinking of James Dean and Marilyn Monroe and how young they were when they died. I would like to be a pop icon who survives. I would like to be a living icon.

What I love most about icons is finding out what's behind them, exploring the price of their power.

I feel very fortunate to be compared to somebody so incredible. Michael Jackson's an icon.

I find the idea of today's icons being teenagers incredibly uninspiring.

I really worked with icons in the music business, which really had a strong effect on me. It wasn't just pick-up gigs.

To be a winner of that, and to fall in the long line of traditional great backs at USC, to have your name in perpetuity, the fact that your parents are like icons... that's the greatest thing.

I know I should keep this a secret, but Celine Dion is something of an icon to me.

For many, the icon of the British Museum is the Rosetta Stone, that administrative by-product of the Greek imperial adventure in Africa.

Barbie is my fashion icon. People think I'm Paris Barbie - and it's a compliment.

From 1962 to 1965, the guitar became this icon of youth culture, thanks mostly to the Beatles

Most of us see Justice O'Connor as something of an icon, although we do not agree with all of her decisions.

The people that I see on the street, they treat me more as a human being and not just an icon or a football player.

These are icons to be treasured.

Natalie's estate is handled by Global Icons, and they police the world so her picture isn't on a T-shirt or coffee cup unless we approve of it.

It's not a master plan to do every remake and every recreation of icons. It's just what I've been hired to do.

To make someone an icon is to make him an abstraction, and abstractions are incapable of vital communication with living people.

Cultural stupidity accounts for virtually every aspect of Sarah Palin, both as a person and a political icon. Which, come to think of it, may be a pretty good reason not to misunderstimate her.

My ultimate style icon is Grace Jones.

There's never been anyone like Bettie Before. Monroe had Harlow and Detrich, she had all of those blonde bombshells, but there was nothing like Bettie. She was the first icon of her nature.

John Lewis is an icon in our society.

My beauty icon is Angelina Jolie.

Today, the world lost a creative icon. Michelle and I join millions of fans from around the world in mourning the sudden death of Prince.

I don't think getting in and out of a limousine has anything to do with being an icon.

The greatest business icons-it's not that they were worth hundreds of millions, or billions or trillions of dollars, it's that they moved society forward.

We destroy icons - that's what we do.

We have these images, these icons before us that are not reality.