Quotes About Icon

I'm not part of the history, I am the history.

Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.

I don't look at myself as a historical icon, but the reality of it is, yeah, I am playing for history now.

Next? Growing up to be Clint Eastwood, I hope.

I hope when I'm dead I'll be considered an icon, though.

If Jesus had known that his image would end up on Justin Bieber's calf, he would've never started Christianity.

I think the reason Jesus is so popular, just on a celebrity level, is that he died at the peak of his career.

My momma always said, 'You and Elvis are pretty good, but y'all ain't no Chuck Berry.

We seem to feel that a person like Helen Keller can be an inspiration only so long as she remains uncontroversial, one-dimensional. We don't want complicated icons. "People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions," Helen Keller pointed out. "Conclusions are not always pleasant.

Autumn" Again the wind flakes gold-leaf from the trees and the painting darkens— as if a thousand penitents kissed an icon till it thinned back to bare wood, without diminishment. The Paris Review Issue 109, Winter 1988

Di Stéfano was one of the greatest footballers ever. He had such great balance.

It is significant that whereas in the West Mary is primarily the Virgin, a being almost totally different from us in her absolute and celestial purity and freedom from all carnal pollution, in the East she is always referred to and glorified as Theotokos, the Mother of God, and virtually all icons depict her with the Child in her arms.

When I first watched Bette Davis in 'All About Eve', I was struck by how much I felt that she is Margo Channing and that she's Bette Davis, where she was able to do both, where you're like, 'What an icon.'

Everybody watches Bruce Lee. That's a legend. He's the man!

Rukmini Devi was an icon for all the Bharat Natyam students at Kalakshetra. I grew up watching her at dance school and I associate her style with grace and humility - it's never the clothes, it's the persona.

I grew up watching Mickey Mouse and going to Disney World, like, 2,000 times. Mickey Mouse is like my guru.

I guess John Wayne would be one. I just respected the way he acted.

When you think of hockey, when you think of Canada, you think of Wayne Gretzky.

See, heroes never die. John Wayne isn't dead, Elvis isn't dead. Otherwise you don't have a hero. You can't kill a hero. That's why I never let him get older.

John Wayne never ever disappointed his fans, because he was a cowboy.

It will not be the same Manchester United without Wayne Rooney. He has to stay there until he dies.

When we were at the CMT Awards this year, Robert Plant was there. What an icon, I love him... But I can't go up and speak to him, because I don't want to seem like a goob.

Maradona was absolutely the best player I ever played with.

Chet Atkins... is probably the best guitar player who ever lived.