Quotes About Icon

I'm a big-time Johnny Cash fan.

Richie Rich, Keoki, Amanda LaPore are really successful. They've joined the culture at large.

Fans should remember Thierry Henry when he joined Arsenal. He didn't score much before becoming an icon of this club.

A primitive symbol

Most people are surprised to hear how they really sound, as the American media uses the call of the red-tailed hawk when showing an eagle. They don't think the eagle sounds regal enough. And so we lie to ourselves about the very identity of our national icon . . .

He was a symbol. A living banner to destroy.

His phone chirped the sound of some bird. "That's actually the call of an eagle," Tobias said. "Most people are surprised to hear how they really sound, as the American media uses the call of the red tailed hawk when showing an eagle. They don't think the eagle sounds regal enough. And so we lie to ourselves about the very identity of our national icon...

I was recognized as being an artist and a storyteller. If Hulk Hogan was the Elvis of wrestling, I was the Robert De Niro.

An icon is like a window looking out upon eternity. Behind its two dimensional surface lies the garden of God, which is beyond dimension or size. Every time I entrust myself to these images, move beyond my curious questions about their origin, history, and artistic value, and let them speak to me in their own language, they draw me into closer communion with the God of love.

Of course, yes, I watched 'Dora' growing up. I'm bilingual, and she's like my icon.

With fashion, my mother was an icon, but she never lived it in the sense that she was never obsessed with fashion. When I was a young girl, my sister wasn't doing fashion, so I started fashion thinking, 'I'm going to do something that they haven't done yet.' That was my silly scheme at the time.

I have no illusions of being an icon to young girls or anybody.

When you think blues, you think BB King. Even a young kid can look at a picture of BB King and say, 'the blues.' The man is more than a musician. He's a monument.

Aretha Franklin is and will always be a national treasure.

Treasure is the kind of thing you dig up... or bury! And when people say, 'Oh, he's an icon,' well, an icon is a very old painting hanging in a Russian church! If you want to say something, say something nice about me. Don't call me a national treasure.

'Star Trek' scared me a lot more than 'White Jazz.' It terrified me, really. Because of the scale, the responsibility, the fact that it was this iconic character. It was the bigger challenge, so I had to take it.

Nobody can replace Dev sahab. He changed the trend of Indian cinema. He was an icon.

There is nothing that will be bigger than a Michael Jordan tribute.

Every artist should want to be like Michael Jackson

I don't really like the slogan 'It boy.'

I'm partial to slouchier, more free clothing. My icon is Patti Smith, so the more rips, the more punk, the more comfortable I feel.

Shawn Michaels, to me and to so many people, is just the greatest in-ring performer of all time.

Liberace was a miracle. You talk about who he was and what he did, and then you look at who he inspired, from Elton John to Cher to Michael Jackson to Bette Midler. There are so many people that came to see him. Elvis was there, watching his shows.

It's been amazing to play a character that's known by so many people, especially because everyone knows at least something about Peter Pan.