Icons Quotes · Page 2

Icons speak icon language.

— Riff Raff

I've become this sort of icon for the gay community. I don't like the position.

— Sandra Bernhard

My style icons are Leigh Lezark, Gwen Stefani and Shirley Manson.

— Marina and the Diamonds

We don't need American Idols. We need American icons. Icons of work.

— Mike Rowe

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

— Enrique Pena Nieto

There is only going to be one Kate Moss. Kate is an icon.

— Naomi Campbell

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

— Corazon Aquino

I'm just myself, so I don't know that I think of myself as a nerd icon.

— Aisha Tyler

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

— Amanda Hocking

Janet Jackson is an icon, I've been honored to meet her a few times, working with her would be amazing.

— Eric West

We have lost all our big Australian industries and icons, including Qantas when it sold 25 % of its shares and a…

— Pauline Hanson

That is what [Andy] Warhol portraits do: They elevate the subject into an icon of the pop culture he was documenting.

— Giorgio Armani

Apart from death and taxes, the one thing that's certain in this life is that I'll never be a fashion icon.

— Bruce Dickinson

Shatter the icons of slavery and fear. Replace the leer of the minstrel's burnt-cork face with a proud, serene and classic bronze…

— Dudley Randall

Alexander McQueen... The fashion world has not only lost an icon but we have also lost a very special friend.

— Donatella Versace

Daphne Guinness, who makes couture seem wearable, is an icon who influences what I wear.

— Ashley Madekwe

My style icons would be people like Brigitte Bardot and old Hollywood actresses who always look so stunning, cool and chic. I…

— Jessica Brown Findlay

I guess I felt straight when I was allowed to get married. Now I feel queerer because I'm not. It's the only…

— Sia Furler

Like so many liberal icons, Marx seldom bathed and left his wife and children in poverty. As Schlafly says, no wonder liberal…

— Ann Coulter

Glenn Close is a living icon. You look at the work, and I think it's wild, because she thinks some of her…

— Anthony Anderson

I saw how you could get away with such a free-spirited, naturalistic sensibility in a mainstream Hollywood movie, and you could apply…

— David Gordon Green

I can look back at it now as definitely like an initiation into adulthood. Almost overnight in the NFL, I was put…

— Ricky Williams

I just sing and write songs and wear what I want. It's quite a good job really. If I wanted to I…

— Ellie Goulding

I think what sets this one apart is that there are two horror movie icons finally battling each other. You actually see…

— Monica Keena

The bicycle is a former child's toy that has now been elevated to icon status because, presumably, it can move the human…

— Brock Yates

It is true that one was not allowed at the time to really ask, what would lead people to do this, from…

— Judith Butler

The whole earth is a living icon of the face of God. ... I do not worship matter. I worship the Creator…

— John of Damascus

We take it for granted that Jesus was not interested in political life: his mission was purely religious. Indeed we have witnessed…

— Gustavo Gutiérrez

Gisele Bundchen I always admired. I think she is an example for all models. If I could have just a little bit…

— Rosie Huntington-Whiteley

If there’s any other message in this to readers, it’s in these two characters as icons of hope, that it doesn’t make…

— J. Michael Straczynski

For more than 160 years, through the initiative of the French bishop Charles de Forbin Janson, the childhood of Jesus has become…

— Pope Benedict XVI

I don't think these women are stupid. I think they're selling a personality that's very marketable: Wouldn't it be fun if we…

— Reese Witherspoon

I didn't know I was a gay icon. I get a lot of mail - but I don't get many bad letters…

— Betty White

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

— Paris Hilton

Don't call me an icon. I'm just a mother trying to help.

— Princess Diana

The English country house is certainly an icon of British culture.

— Julian Fellowes

It's a weird day and age when you can tire of icons simply by overexposure.

— Alexa Chung

A lot of my favorite artists are fashion icons.

— Theophilus London

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

— Lauryn Hill

Marvin Gaye was one of the coolest. I look to him as a style icon and as an artist.

— John Legend