Icons Quotes

When I was a ten-year old bookworm and used to kiss the dust jacket pictures of authors as if they were icons, it used to amaze me that these remote people could provoke me to love.
Erica Jong

Love, Old, Kiss

Before I write a novel, images float around in my head that work like icons - they are meaningless in themselves, but serve as reminders.
Jane Smiley

Work, Before, Around

I have a naturally camp sensibility and a camp sense of humour. I love the icons that gay people love.
Siobhan Fahey

Love, Gay, Sense

I look at the careers of people I'm standing on the shoulders of. People like Lena Horne, Ella Fitzgerald, Sammy Davis Jr., and Sarah Vaughan. These are icons I wanted to emulate, and I feel like they've been holding me up for quite a long time.
Dionne Warwick

Time, Long, Wanted

Gay icons usually have some tragedy in their lives, but I've only had tragic haircuts and outfits.
Kylie Minogue

Gay, Lives, Tragedy

I find the idea of today's icons being teenagers incredibly uninspiring.
Kathleen Turner

Today, Find, Idea

In terms of influence, my style icons have been a mixture of Julie Andrews and Olivia Newton-John. When I was little I used to watch 'Grease,' 'Mary Poppins' and 'The Sound of Music' a lot. If you put all those things together you do kind of get my outfits. A slightly tarty nanny in a second-hand outfit. That is pretty much what I wear.
Sophie Ellis-Bextor

Music, Together, Pretty

My beauty icons are women whose images are self-created.
Dita Von Teese

Beauty, Women, Whose

With actors like Steve McQueen, Paul Newman and Harrison Ford, what made them such icons is that even in dramatic movies, their characters had a sense of humor.
Patrick Wilson

Humor, Movies, Made

We have lost all our big Australian industries and icons, including Qantas when it sold 25 % of its shares and a controlling interest to British Airways.
Pauline Hanson

Lost, Big, Interest

My style icons would be people like Brigitte Bardot and old Hollywood actresses who always look so stunning, cool and chic. I like classic and timeless looks.
Jessica Brown Findlay

Cool, Old, Style

I really worked with icons in the music business, which really had a strong effect on me. It wasn't just pick-up gigs.
Kevin Eubanks

Music, Business, Strong

Natalie's estate is handled by Global Icons, and they police the world so her picture isn't on a T-shirt or coffee cup unless we approve of it.
Robert Wagner

Coffee, Her, Picture

We have a need to be religious, we need to worship, we need to build totems and shrines and icons, but nobody's sure in honor of what.
Robyn Hitchcock

Honor, Sure, Religious

These are icons to be treasured.
Robert Stack

I like to believe that rather than destroy icons, I make new ones.
Andres Serrano

Rather, Destroy

I think comedians have a function in society, which is to make fun of our icons.
Julie Brown

Society, Fun, Function

I think what sets this one apart is that there are two horror movie icons finally battling each other. You actually see them beat the crap out of each other instead of just terrorizing the kids in the movie.
Monica Keena

Two, Kids, Actually

My icons do not raise up the blessed savior in elaborate cathedrals. They are constructed concentrations celebrating barren rooms. They bring a limited light.
Dan Flavin

Blessed, Light, Bring

To be a winner of that, and to fall in the long line of traditional great backs at USC, to have your name in perpetuity, the fact that your parents are like icons... that's the greatest thing.
Marcus Allen

Great, Greatest, Parents

I don't think that I want to meet any of the icons. I don't think that anybody can quite live up to your expectations.
Jane Horrocks

Live, Quite, Anybody

Somebody like Mailer brings to that role everything that he stands for. The types of characters that I gravitate towards, the types of icons, tend to have a heavy physicality in that way.
Matthew Barney

Everything, Somebody, Role

I like individuality in fashion - it annoys me when celebrities put on a bodycon dress and a pair of high heels and suddenly they are 'style icons.'
Georgie Henley

Fashion, Put, High

It's not a master plan to do every remake and every recreation of icons. It's just what I've been hired to do.
Steve Carell

Plan, Master, Recreation

Cheese steaks are the gastronomic icons of this ethnic city.
Bryan Miller

City, Cheese, Ethnic

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