Quotes About Icons

For a long time, I'd been vaguely fascinated by the idea that Charles Lindbergh flew the Atlantic and Babe Ruth hit 60 home runs in the same summer.

knowledge of Jewish culture, Jewish symbols, Jewish icons and the tradition of Jewish storytelling. It requires an understanding of what the Jews called "midrash.

To read the gospels properly, I now believe, requires a knowledge of Jewish culture, Jewish symbols, Jewish icons and the tradition of Jewish storytelling. It requires an understanding of what the Jews called "midrash." Only those people who were completely unaware of these things could ever have come to think that the gospels were meant to be read literally.

Growing up, I was surrounded by music by the Stones, Carole King, and the Beach Boys. I didn't know who Michael Jackson was till I was about 13.

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

One of the few times I saw my mother cry was when Lennon died, and the other time was when Elvis died.

Designing the prints was very much like writing a story with characters, [inspired by] some of my my favorite icons of the time: Eva Perón and Josephine Baker.

But the financial industry is supremely pragmatic. While it may genuflect to the old icons, it invests its research dollars in the search for newer, better gods.

When I came up, guys like Nicholson and DeNiro were held in highest regard.

During my time playing for England we had Wayne Rooney, David Beckham, Michael Owen, Steven Gerrard, Frank Lampard, Paul Scholes. They were world-class players playing for Chelsea, Man United, Liverpool, Arsenal, all legends of the game.

Tomorrow these villagers would carry their secret icons into the church without any priest and light the candles themselves, moving together in single-minded grace. Like the school of the fish, so driven to righteousness they could flout the law, declare the safety of their souls, then go home and destroy the evidence.

Van Halen, Bon Jovi, Def Leppard, and Pink Floyd.

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.

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

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

A lot of my favorite artists are fashion icons.

I really hate it when people ask me who my icons are. When your parents are Bianca and Mick, you don't really need any more icons in your life.

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.

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

We carry our younger selves with us our whole lives, and we can measure out of lives by music we've loved or icons we've loved.

I do get star-struck, especially if they're icons like Florence Welch. I met her briefly at a studio and I did not act cool.

The Specials used to be my style icons. I was obsessed with them and the whole 2-Tone thing was a good look for me.

When we first started, we all had icons: So Perrie had a flower, Jade had a bow-tie, Jesy had a boombox and I had a cap!