Quotes About Icon

Well, I'll tell ye, they ain't no more heroes.

This is also, I hope, a book about innovation. At a time when the United States is seeking ways to sustain its innovative edge, and when societies around the world are trying to build creative digital-age economies, Jobs stands as the ultimate icon of inventiveness, imagination, and sustained innovation.

Looking back at a century that will be remembered for its willingness to break classical bonds, and looking ahead to an era that seeks to nurture the creativity needed for scientific innovation, one person stands out as a paramount icon of our age: the kindly refugee from oppression whose wild halo of hair, twinkling eyes, engaging humanity, and extraordinary brilliance made his face a symbol and his name a synonym for genius.

Anytime you start singing Johnny Cash, you're walking on hallowed ground.

The flyest justice SCOTUS has ever seen.

I don't want them to forget Ruth, I just want them to remember me!

My daddy, he was somewhere between God and John Wayne.

Andy Warhol made fame more famous.

I never thought that Spider-Man would become the world wide icon that he is. I just hoped the books would sell and I'd keep my job.

I'm the guy that made Joe DiMaggio famous.

George Harrison, the Scouse of distinction!

Bob Dylan continues to release odd and unsettling records, and to do odd and unsettling things on stage. So the term 'still' seems meaningless to me. But the real answer is simple: I listen to Bob Dylan for pleasure more than I listen to anyone else for pleasure.

Madonna is untouchable. She is absolutely lovely. On a personal level, she's everything you would expect. She's so down to earth.

With an older generation, there's some weight carried with the Beatles. There's almost like an untouchable, god-like force field around them.

If you think too much about playing an icon, it will immobilize you. You have to treat it like a fresh character. Sure, there are guidelines so that you don't upset people, but you have to find your own way.

I'm going to be a fashion icon in a minute. I'm not going to do it in a corny manner. I have a voice that speaks for a whole other market - not just black people, but high fashion urban people. I mix street wear with high fashion. It's never been seen before.

In urban culture, Larry Davis is something of a legend.

Glenn Close is a living icon. You look at the work, and I think it's wild, because she thinks some of her best work was in Dangerous Liaisons and that's what I believe as well.

They've tried to manufacture other Marilyn Monroes and they will undoubtedly keep trying. But it won't work. She was an original.

Marlon Brando. The finest actor who ever lived. He was my idol when I was 13. He's done enough work to last two lifetimes. Everything I do, I think: Can Brando play this with me?

Mexico has lost an icon whose work has transcended generations and borders.

Howard Stern is one of my idols.

I met Steve McQueen once. Well, met isn't really the right word.

It is fashionable to be a college dropout, no? Like Steve Jobs.