Quotes About Icon

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

I'd love to be the new Kurt Cobain.

The new generation doesn't know anything about me except for what they saw in' Easy Rider.'

At every step in his life, DiMaggio was what New Yorkers wanted in a hero.

Cristiano is one of the best players of all-time - there's no doubt about it.

I didn't really know anything about Margot Fonteyn. I'd never really been a ballet child, so I had no idea what an incredibly huge icon she was, not just in terms of a creative icon - she was also a style icon. I had no idea she was up there with Audrey Hepburn and Jackie Onassis in terms of that kind of image.

already a national institution: a cartoon cad

Being a sexual icon is sort of like being the front man for an Orange County punk band: As soon as you can explain why you're necessary, you're over.

this is how media devolution works: It creates an archetype that eventually dwarfs its origin.

If Marilyn Monroe was alive right now, what would she be doing?' Clawing at the roof of her coffin.

If Marilyn Monroe was alive right now, what would she be doing?" I say, goodnight. The headliner hangs down in shreds from the ceiling, and Tyler says, Clawing at the lid of her coffin.

If Marilyn Monroe and Princess Diana were candles in the wind, and Anna Nicole Smith was a bonfire in a hailstorm, and Lindsay Lohan is an electric toaster thrown intentionally into a Jacuzzi, then Paris Hilton s a strobe light in an epilepsy ward.

Fact: There's been an eagle on a nickel, An eagle on a quarter, too. But there ain't no eagle On a dime.

CELEBRITY. One who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.

Elvis stopped threatening—not only girls, but the whole of the social order—and began pleading.

To many today Oscar is a gay icon who can do no wrong, but, in truth, he was human, multifaceted and no saint. Part of the tragedy of Oscar Wilde is that it is now almost impossible to view him except through the prism of his downfall.

to Madame Tussauds wax museum.

The Burgess Shale is not unique, but for those who study evolution and fossils it has become something of an icon. It provides a reference point and a benchmark, a point of common discussion and an issue of universal scientific interest.

I've always thought John Travolta is one of the greatest movie stars Hollywood has ever produced.

Miles Davis was a part of my life from 1947 on. I was born in 1941 and I first heard him in 1947 on a 78 rpm. And then I followed his career, starting with his first solo album in 1951. He was an icon and inspiration and a mentor to me.

I really don't think about making fashion statements. Just like any other woman or girl, I like to dress up. I think I'm fortunate enough to be dressed by some of India's best designers and to have the opportunity to wear their wonderful creations. But I have never made a conscious effort to try and be a fashion icon or something.

This is so cliche, but my beauty icon would have to be Angelina Jolie. She looks like she wears natural makeup, but she's still beautiful.

I've always been obsessed with Audrey Hepburn.

Pete Wentz was the Justin Bieber of 2007. Girls loved him; they obsessed over him.