Quotes About Icon

I started out just as Elvis was going into the army, Jerry Lee Lewis married his 14-year-old cousin, and Little Richard became a priest.

Mickey is one of the prime examples: Mickey has never been suspected of being an American export. It was deja vu. They gave him a local name and he's been accepted everywhere he goes.

I have been Princess Leia exclusively. It's been a part of my life for 40 years.

I think that Carrie is such an icon, not just as someone who played Princess Leia, but someone who was groundbreaking in that she was OK with being honest - brutally so, unapologetically so.

It's a privilege for us, Portugal, to have a player like Cristiano Ronaldo.

Goldberg was as close to a cultural icon as WCW ever produced.

I want Dr to be sort of the next Batman. I want to be 70, 80 years old and want someone else to play Dr Disrespect.

And I just remember, you know, breaking into tears and feeling so empty because, as long as Elvis was in the world, you always knew something was going and he always had something that kept everybody mesmerized.

Messi, even if technically is same or more, he doesn't have more charisma than Maradona had.

Ric Flair was such a huge part of my childhood and teen years. He's an icon.

I remember being a teenager and watching 40-year-old Michael Jordan compete in his final All-Star game.

observó el señor Riley— tienen menos capacidad innata que aquellos con los que compiten. Pero son su dedicación, su compromiso y su tenacidad para optimizar cualquiera de sus potencialidades lo que los convierten en iconos.

Christians have inherited from Saint Augustine and from Plato the vision of this transient world as an icon of another and changeless order. They understand the sacred as a revelation in the here and now of the eternal sense of our being.

I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals; I mean the supreme creation of an era, conceived with passion by unknown artists, and consumed in image if not in usage by a whole population which appropriates them as a purely magical object.

THE TABLECLOTH OF TURIN

Heroes get remembered, but legends never die.

Ruth was probably the greatest athlete to perform in any sport. Never has there been anybody like him.

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.

Grease and starch just always win over protein. In food as in so many things. Look around you, that's what our whole country is based on. It's amazing that Michael Jordan can be an iconic figure because he's basically just protein.

Chiranjeevi garu is my favourite dancer.

One of the most popular MMA fighters ever, Kimbo was a charismatic, larger-than-life personality that transcended the sport.

My father did 90-plus films. He was Spartacus!

I wouldn't necessarily say she is a country artist. I mean, obviously Taylor Swift started in country, but she morphed into somewhat of a cultural icon, so, who am I to judge what she is?

Sting can call out whoever he wants; he's a legend in this business.