Icons Quotes

I'm Valentino Rossi. And I want to be a person, not an icon.

The hardest thing in fashion is not to be known for a logo, but to be known for a silhouette.

I am the showstopper. The main event. The Icon that can still go.

We must shine with hope, stained glass windows that shape light into icons, glow like lanterns borne before a procession. Who can bear hope back into the world but us.

A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman and loose enough to prove you're a lady.

Anyone can get dressed up and glamorous, but it is how people dress in their days off that are the most intriguing.

David Brinkley was an icon of modern broadcast journalism, a brilliant writer who could say in a few words what the country needed to hear during times of crisis, tragedy and triumph.

The whole earth is a living icon of the face of God.

I am honored to even be considered for any list that includes such icons as Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles. I have had posters of those guys hanging over my bed for years now. I find the whole thing quite arousing.

The showstopper! The icon! The main event!

A favorite Wired icon for the information feedback loop, a dragon curling in a circle to swallow its own tail, could become more apt as a symbol of the timeless libertarian paradox: Monopoly verging on feudalism emerges from unregulated competition to bite libertarianism in the posterior.

I am not an icon of democracy. You are all, collectively, the icon of democracy.

Somebody like Mailer brings to that role everything that he stands for. The types of characters that I gravitate towards, the types of icons, tend to have a heavy physicality in that way.

You can have anything you want in life if you dress for it.

In questioning initially whether I am a great investor, I open the door to question whether other similarly esteemed public icons like Bill Miller are as well. It seems, perhaps, that the longer and longer you keep at it in this business the more and more time you have to expose your Achilles heel - wherever and whatever that might be.

Gay icons usually have some tragedy in their lives, but I've only had tragic haircuts and outfits.

We have a need to be religious, we need to worship, we need to build totems and shrines and icons, but nobody's sure in honor of what.

There's nobody in the world like me. I think every decade has an iconic blonde, like Marilyn Monroe or Princess Diana and, right now, I'm that icon.

Frankly I've never really subscribed to these adjectives tagging me as an 'icon', 'superstar', etc. I've always thought of myself as an actor doing his job to the best of his ability.

My style icon is anyone who makes a bloody effort

I see myself not only as a football player, but an entertainer and icon.

Elizabeth Taylor is one of the great cultural icons. She is a part of our history and should be celebrated.… This presentation is very special for the community, there are so many people who want to understand this side of Elizabeth Taylor.

Wherever you go, there are three icons that everyone knows: Jesus Christ, Pele and Coca-Cola.

We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.

If a pagan asks you to show him your faith, take him into church and place him before the icons.