Quotes About Iconic

Abe Lincoln is my favorite president of all time - and he pulls off that top hat pretty well.

From one generation to the next, The Beatles will remain the most important rock band of all time.

But at the end of the day, every star, every person that been iconic, has gone through a time in their lives where it was just bad. Everybody. It just made them better.

My great hero was that archetype of cheerful American normalcy, Norman Rockwell.

With respect to Barack Obama, let's face it Barack Obama is an iconic figure in the African-American community. We respect that. We understand that. African-Americans are going to vote for the first black president, especially when he happens to share the liberal politics on economic issues that many in that community hold.

Depending on how you looked at it, Darren was our Mick Jagger (designated swaggering extrovert) to Simon's Keith Richards (quietly virtuosic, blatantly self-destructive). Or else Darren had been Paul McCartney (chirpily commercial) and Simon had been John Lennon (moody, introspective, possessed of quasi-mystical insights).

Vince McMahon is not a human being. They don't make people like Vince. Vince is Vince. I can't even describe to you what it's like being in a room with Vince McMahon. He is above man. That's the best way I can put it. Like-minded people take over the world, so I've always had a great rapport with him.

As iconic a band as Metallica has become, I think sometimes we forget just how raw they were in the beginning of their career, and to a 15-year-old kid like me, it was just shattering. I mean, it was beyond.

I've seen many great performers on stage, from Dean Martin to Celine Dion, but nothing beats the first time I saw Elvis. There was no pomp, no pyrotechnics, nothing to distract you from the raw talent of the man in the white jumpsuit.

When you listen to Ray Charles, there's never any doubt whose voice that is.

I love the challenge of taking established, iconic comics characters and showing readers why they remain contemporary.

If we are gong to be an outstanding team, we need players who are going to step up in the big moments and realise, every time they play for England, they have the chance to be involved in an iconic moment, a historic performance, and that they have that choice every time they go on the field.

I hadn't realised what an institution 'Doctor Who' is.

I'm a fan of the Grateful Dead.

I'm still asked a great deal about 'The Wicker Man' because it's become one of the great cult movies of all time. That's the story of my career, really, making cult movies. And I've always said it's the best film I've ever made.

Zidane is a very great player, a very calm player.

Brando's one of the greats; what can you say?

Patrick Dempsey will forever be known as 'Grey's Anatomy''s McDreamy.

The Melvins are grunge.

Hall & Oates is everything.

What we have here is an image-mapping based on structure—in this case, struc- ture that is in part metaphorically imposed. When such a mapping exists between the structure of a sentence and the structure of the meaning or the image that the sentence conveys, the mapping is called "iconic.

Iconicity provides an extra layer of metaphorical structure to the poem.

I've always wanted to be Wonder Woman, of course. She had the greatest costume.

There's Batman, there's Superman, there's Wonder Woman. She's the full-blown real deal.