Icons Quotes · Page 5

Justin Timberlake is one of our style icons - he does both formal and casual perfectly.

— Jonathan Scott

It's a little premature to be claiming that this is a done deal, but certainly Rex Tillerson is American icon and businessman…

— Reince Priebus

I like to blow up stereotypes, like taking the icons of metal, the epitome of male testosterone and showing them as regular…

— Joe Berlinger

I've never really compared myself to anyone who's a big star - I'm not trying to be a fashion icon or get…

— Katy B

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…

— Donny Deutsch

Canada is a balloon-puncturing country. You are not really allowed to be an icon unless you also make an idiot of yourself.

— Margaret Atwood

When people call me a sex icon, it's flattering but it never goes to my head because I never felt sexy as…

— Eva Longoria

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

— Tracy Morgan

There's a natural tendency to sanitize and polish any historical icon whether it be George Washington chopping down the cherry tree or…

— Taylor Branch

America has lost an icon. Ronald Reagan's leadership will inspire Americans for generations to come. His patriotism and devotion to our country…

— Tom Daschle

When you're developing a story, for me anyway, it's all so important to get the script right, especially when you're telling the…

— Graham King

Miles Davis was a part of my life from 1947 on. I was born in 1941 and I first heard him in…

— Chick Corea

Michael Jordan was a cultural icon that everybody on the playground wanted to be. The Bulls dynasty was a huge part of…

— Macklemore

"You're a sex icon." Why? Because I played a vampire in a movie? It's all very unearned. If I had the best…

— Kellan Lutz

But when you read a book, what you see are black squiggles on pulped wood or, increasingly, dark pixels on a pale…

— Mohsin Hamid

I object to the hypersexualization of all the superheroines. Most of them have been hypersexualized, but especially to Wonder Woman, because she…

— Trina Robbins

European militants recognize Mumia Abu-Jamal, and the Mexican militants followed their example and legitimated his work because the Europeans said, "Hey, Mumia…

— Bocafloja

Imagine a smashed stained-glass window, a page torn from a Bible, or a snippet of choral singing. You would still recognize their…

— Martin Lindstrom

1962 to 1965, where suddenly the guitar became this icon of youth culture all over the world, thanks mostly to the Beatles.…

— Pat Metheny

I am firmly of the opinion that the Macintosh is Catholic and that DOS is Protestant. Indeed, the Macintosh is counterreformist and…

— Umberto Eco

For better or worse, we are the Court of Appeals for the Hollywood Circuit. Millions of people toil in the shadow of…

— Alex Kozinski

In fact, James Meredith who was once the icon of the civil rights movement. He supported me for governor!

— David Duke

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

— David Foster Wallace

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

— Kevin Eubanks

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…

— Robert Wagner

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

— Jennifer Lawrence

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

— John of Damascus

My personal style icon is Steve McQueen. My design style icon is a mix of everyone from Jackie O. to Lauren Hutton…

— Michael Kors

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

— Patricia Ireland

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

— Pauline Hanson

I have no doubt about a photographer in particular and a digital artist in general having become contemporary icons.

— Nikolay Semyonov

Cultures render their icons in their own image. Which comes down to vanity, in some sense.

— Joel Edgerton

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

— Alexander Wang

I think the golden age of couture had some of the most incredible customers: women like Nan Kempner and all the icons.

— Nicolas Ghesquiere

A lot of times we expect people who get money and fame to suddenly become this "role model" or this "icon." That…

— Steve Harvey

In the United States those bits of our history that remain are paved over, sanitized, packaged for easy consumption. At those sites…

— Biloine W. Young

There's always a sense of tragedy with icons. It happened to both the Princess of Wales and Diana Dors. A lot of…

— Keeley Hawes

Jerry Robinson illustrated some of the defining images of pop culture's greatest icons. As an artist myself, it's impossible not to feel…

— Jim Lee

I designed 'Buffy' to be an icon, to be an emotional experience, to be loved in a way that other shows can't…

— Joss Whedon

I wish HP nothing but the best. I think HP is an icon. Those of us who had their careers in the…

— Larry Ellison