Top 244 Icons Quotes & Sayings

Jerry Garcia was one of the original American icons. He played naturally and beautifully.

McDonald's, Barbie - they're all icons, recognizable from London to Timbuktu.

I don't believe in icons.

My two style icons are Edie Sedgwick and Brigitte Bardot.

We have these images, these icons before us that are not reality.

Fashion icons that are famous in Paris, it's Charlotte Gainsbourg or even me on the Internet, but we wear the same clothes every day - a white t-shirt with jeans - so why are we fashion icons?

Dave Chappelle - he's one of my favorite icons. I can't think of anyone who's funnier.

We destroy icons - that's what we do.

Style icons always change, and they usually inspire my haircuts more than anything else.

Justin Timberlake is one of our style icons - he does both formal and casual perfectly.

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

When I think back to my influences and icons musically, they were my icons musically because, for example, I would look at Rakim and be like man he said the freshest things and then I look at him and he would have on the pair of Nikes that I wanted and I'm like, "ma' please!" It was everything. Now, I sort of feel like if you are fresh then your music doesn't have to be that good because people are so keyed into the fashion. That's just the times I guess.

True icons are larger than life, unforgettable with an elegance that's mesmerizingly timeless.

I have no doubt about a photographer in particular and a digital artist in general having become contemporary icons.

I don't profess to be Shonda Rhimes by any stretch of the imagination, or Dick Wolf. They're icons. I'm a filmmaker.

My fashion icons change regularly.

The fact is that until I saw paintings as icons, I couldn't see why people painted at all.

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

The Specials used to be my style icons. I was obsessed with them and the whole 2-Tone thing was a good look for me.

My mum is one of my style icons!

My style icons are Victoria Beckham, Blake Lively and Zendaya.

The people I tend to look to and reference are Hollywood icons; Audrey Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor, Rita Hayworth.

We don't need American Idols. We need American icons. Icons of work.

The DC Universe has the best villains in fiction, right? I don't think there's any group of villains collectively or anywhere else that come close to DC's. Joker, Cat Woman, Lex Luthor, are all staples. A lot of the comic book icons are fiction icons.

I am interested in Icons, not just religious works but also contemporary icons. I also like the way the Pop movement of the 60s took subjects from consumer products and people - soup cans, comic books, film stars - and elevated them through art, just like in traditional iconography.

Why is this generation looking to aging icons like John Lennon and Bob Dylan for inspiration? Why not raising up their own icons?

The idea of being icons, I think it's great when you're 24. It's fantastic.

This is America; our icons are complicated.

The great style icons are tomboys

I think Marvin Gaye is one of the greatest American music icons. His 'What's Going On' is as fresh today as when he did it.

A lot of my favorite artists are fashion icons.

Cheese steaks are the gastronomic icons of this ethnic city.

All my favorite artists and fashion icons and models are from the Nineties. Everybody was just so fearless.

Almost all the Disney villain witches are gay icons.

David Bowie and Elvis Presley are my style icons.

When you compare the icons of the game, you have Sunil Gavaskar, Kapil Dev, Sachin Tendulkar and Dhoni in the same bracket.

My style icons are Leigh Lezark, Gwen Stefani and Shirley Manson.

I think there's something basically wrong with the general public that they do need their icons.

Cultures render their icons in their own image. Which comes down to vanity, in some sense.

My fashion icons range from bubblegum pop princesses to grunge queens.

My style icons were Gwen Stefani, when she was in No Doubt, and then Shirley Manson in Garbage.

'George' exploits John Kennedy Jr.'s cult of celebrity at a time when Americans are hungry for icons, not heroes.

There are so many great artists, I think, who kind of suffer from being icons, legends, acknowledged masters.

I really hate it when people ask me who my icons are. When your parents are Bianca and Mick, you don't really need any more icons in your life.

The thing I regret most about my life are those inane photos of me with icons. They used to come down here and dress me up, and I just tolerated it. It's my fault. But I shouldn't have done it. They literally brought down costumes, candles, and icons! It was unbelievable stupidity.

Icons are also beautiful, with their luminous colors and gold leaf. On first glance, the subjects can seem flat, their poses artificial. But the wonder of the icons has to do with the relationship which develops between the panel and the viewer. Looking at an icon brings me a feeling of serenity; it's like a form of prayer. So I suppose in this sense, the icon is unsurpassed.

My beauty icons are women whose images are self-created.

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

There comes a time when even icons, if they choose to do so, should be allowed to enjoy life out of the spotlight.

Icons speak icon language.

Cinematic icons of the police detective are more male role models than female.

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

It's a weird day and age when you can tire of icons simply by overexposure.

Youth icons are born through beauty pageants.

Wherever you go, there are three icons that everyone knows: Jesus Christ, Pele and Coca-Cola.

On the news that the Tsar had sent the troops icons to boost their morals, General Dragomirov quipped: 'The Japanese are beating us with machine-guns, but never mind: we'll beat them with icons.

These are icons to be treasured.

What I love most about icons is finding out what's behind them, exploring the price of their power.

My fashion icons are my dad, Pharrell, and Johnny Depp.

People have very strong opinions about how their national icons should be played.