Icons Quotes

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.

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.

I think what sets this one apart is that there are two horror movie icons finally battling each other. You actually see them beat the crap out of each other instead of just terrorizing the kids in the movie.

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.

Cheese steaks are the gastronomic icons of this ethnic city.

I have a naturally camp sensibility and a camp sense of humour. I love the icons that gay people love.

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.

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

I think comedians have a function in society, which is to make fun of our icons.

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.

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.

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 look at the careers of people I'm standing on the shoulders of. People like Lena Horne, Ella Fitzgerald, Sammy Davis Jr., and Sarah Vaughan. These are icons I wanted to emulate, and I feel like they've been holding me up for quite a long time.

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

We have lost all our big Australian industries and icons, including Qantas when it sold 25 % of its shares and a controlling interest to British Airways.

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.

These are icons to be treasured.

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.