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I am interested in circulating past iconography in the present in order to get to the future.
A symbol is best answered by a symbol. Not by a . . . meat cleaver.
A symbol serves to combine heart and intellect.
Not to rag on myself, but when people say, 'What does it feel like to be an icon?' I'm like, 'My dog does not think I'm an icon, my cat does not think I am an icon, my cousin does not think I am an icon.' I have a really lovely group of friends, and I just don't think about it.
Before I write a novel, images float around in my head that work like icons - they are meaningless in themselves, but serve as reminders.
An icon didn't do anything of its own volition. A symbol didn't act of its own accord. Both cities projected what they wanted onto me, and wanted me to stay still as they did it.
On the Web no subject is sacrosanct. No one, from icon to unknown, is off-limits.
I'm just myself, so I don't know that I think of myself as a nerd icon.
An idea is a light turned on in a man's soul. Comic-strip artists are in the habit of representing it by means of a light bulb flashing on, above the head of a character who has suddenly grasped an idea. In simple, primitive terms, this is an appropriate symbol.
What is that?" I asked, pointing at the ceiling.
Part of me didn't expect Aiden to answer, but he did. "It's Phoebe's symbol."
"Phoebe? Obviously you don't mean a Charmed one."
He snorted.
The image is an image.
This icon is formally known as the blade, and it represents aggression and manhood. In fact, this exact phallus symbol is still used today on modern military uniforms to denote rank." "Indeed." Teabing grinned. "The more penises you have, the higher your rank. Boys will be boys.
I don't have a lot of style icons. There are not a lot of people today who I look to.
In this sorry world, the symbol is the thing.
I don't think I'm a gay icon. I have no axe to grind. I mean, I'm clearly not homophobic! I'm not pro or con.
Forget horror icon, Kety Bates is an icon. She's an acting icon. I was raised on so many of her films, everything from Misery to Fried Green Tomatoes to Delores Claiborne, all films that I've watched multiple times and been inspired by.
An idea, in the highest sense of that word, cannot be conveyed but by a symbol.
I like all the old-fashioned icons. My friends are artists, so they make me up to look like certain people. I am more inspired by people like Jane Fonda or Brigitte Bardot - people who did something as activists.
Image is psyche.
Maybe what a gay icon is, is a person who is rooted for - in other words, cheered on - by people who feel different.
It's Aslan, the lion from The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe. It's a symbol of my hellish childhood. I struggled through my oppressive teenage years and when I turned 18 I escaped. Like Aslan I was finally free.
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.
I don't think I'm a style icon, not at all. Sometimes I just want to rock out in me scruffs and me Uggs. You know, a really comfy old tracksuit with maybe a dollop of ketchup down the front.
It was a large heart with lots of hearts growing smaller inside, and piercing from the outside rim to the smallest heart was an arrow.
The symbol of the revolution. The Mockingjay.
The heart is an arrow.
You are what you are"
"Which is what? I wondered
Wherever you go, there are three icons that everyone knows: Jesus Christ, Pele and Coca-Cola.
Fashion icon to me is somebody who has, the first person who struck you and introduced you to the world of fashion, and that person is my mom.
Well, if it's a symbol, to hell with it.
The word 'iconic' is used too frequently - an icon is a statue carved in wood. It was shocking at first, when I got that reference. It was a responsibility, and it's impossible to live up to - you're supposed to be dead, for one thing.
Everything I do is a symbol. Everything, has a meaning.
My icons do not raise up the blessed savior in elaborate cathedrals. They are constructed concentrations celebrating barren rooms. They bring a limited light.
I don't have any style icons, but I get inspiration from my friends. My style motto is that it is better to be overdressed than underdressed.
It is a symbol evoking a reality that touches the depths of the person ... the light of goodness that vanquishes evil, of love that overcomes hatred, of life that defeats death.
Iris GL (GL is short for "graphics library").
I really would not call myself a fashion icon. I would call myself somebody who gets dressed by professionals ... I would call me more of a monkey.
A rune, hovering like an angel: a shape like two wings joined by a single bar.
Unni had a very serious problem. He had this artistic objection to the heart symbol. He said it doesn't look like a heart, he said it looks more like a read arse.
I think there's something basically wrong with the general public that they do need their icons.
Today I am
a small blue thing
Like a marble
or an eye
Frankly I've never really subscribed to these adjectives tagging me as an 'icon', 'superstar', etc. I've always thought of myself as an actor doing his job to the best of his ability.
Fuck you, smiley face.
The function of (heroic) symbols is to give you a sense of Aha! Yes, I know what it is, it's myself.
To be an icon is a big job - it's beyond acting. And sometimes it pays, and sometimes it doesn't.
Symbols are to the mind what tools are to the hand
an extended application of its powers.
Something that is supposed to typify or stand for something else. Many symbols are mere "survivals" - as funereal urns carved on memorial monuments. We cannot stop making them, but we can give them a name that conceals our helplessness.
I am a question mark aimed at an answer.
When one looks into the window of a store which sells devotional art objects, one can't help wishing the iconoclasts had won.
a Nean derthal with a badge.
It's a look that says:
Thank you for not sharing.
a creature of impulse.
If you look at the way people behave at shows, icons are now musicians; they are the people that we worship.
The peasant also found another use for this sacred object. 'He says of the icon: "It's good for praying -- and you can cover the pots with it too.
The logo is an identifier but it's also something that stands-in for who you are.
The hint half guessed, the gift half understood, is Incarnation.
the heart shaped bullet
I came to feel an artist might use anything - a dot, a line, the most conventional or unconventional symbol - t say what he wanted to say.
Being a pop fan is a lot like Catholic devotion - lots of ritual, lots of ceremony ... We touch the icon to enter the sacred space, genuflecting to reliquaries and ostentatoria that make something splendid of our most secret desires and agonies.
All things are symbols.
cornuto," a hand signal representing horns that is an ancient satanist symbol.
He is purple - the gay-pride color, and his antenna is shaped like a triangle - the gay pride symbol.
I like the fact that we're stripping the icons away. They're the WikiLeaks for the age that we're revealing, with the transparency of the characters. We're unearthing the truth beyond or underneath the myth. I love that aspect.
Numbersign questionmark you" and "Asterisk exclamation point the world.
The personification of the devil as the symbol of all evil
assumes the living shape of the Jew.
I don't wish to be the symbol of anything. I'm only myself.
I'm a tomboy and quite clumsy, so I'm more like the anti-sexy icon.
The dot that became a speck that became a blob that became a figure that became a boy
I heard one time that the Superman glyph is the second or third most recognizable symbol on Earth after the Christian cross.
This is so TYPICAL / APOCALYPTICAL
Hanging on abysmal release / Jesus
I don't need this / Don't wanna be this
Icon in the Making / My hands are f**king shaking
It's not too bad to be a sort of pop icon, you know? It's not too tough to handle.
When does an object become a symbol? All I know is you cannot force it.
Mr. Burns is a father symbol to me, and you can omit the word symbol.
It had a sort of a head on it, like a mushroom, and its color was reddish purple. It looked blunt and stupid, compared, say, to fingers and toes with their intelligent expressiveness, or even to an elbow or a knee.
If you are a Church Of One, do you trust your congregation? When you want to be inspired by an icon representing something bigger than yourself, don't you ever get tired of just looking into the mirror?
Capcom, or capsule communicator.
I love iconoclasts. I love individuals. I love people that are true to themselves, whatever the cost.
A favorite Wired icon for the information feedback loop, a dragon curling in a circle to swallow its own tail, could become more apt as a symbol of the timeless libertarian paradox: Monopoly verging on feudalism emerges from unregulated competition to bite libertarianism in the posterior.
My personal style icon is Steve McQueen. My design style icon is a mix of everyone from Jackie O. to Lauren Hutton to my mother.
A good symbol is the best argument, and is a missionary to persuade thousands.
According to Jung, the symbol is 'a third thing' that lies outside of the opposites; creativity must come from outside the individual, so that the whole self is a matter of discovery.
What was it called, that symbol of the serpent eating its own tail? It probably signified infinity, endlessness, timelessness. But for me it would mean the effort to love well going on and on, round and round, always imperfect and always forgivable. The best we could ever do for each other.
Son of man,
You cannot say, or guess, for you know only
A heap of broken images,
If the hero is not a person, the emblem
Of him, even if Xenophon, seems
To stand taller than a person stands, has
A wider brow, large and less human
Eyes and bruted ears: the man-like body
Of a primitive.
The most obscene symbol in human history is the Cross; yet in its ugliness it remains the most eloquent testimony to human dignity.
It's call a Triquetra, the balance of the mind, body and spirit. A Celtic symbol. - Evan
My two style icons are Edie Sedgwick and Brigitte Bardot.
I don't think getting in and out of a limousine has anything to do with being an icon.
The picture, changed or unchanged, would be to him the visible emblem of conscience.
Auburn Tigers T-shirt.
It's a bold mouse that nestles in the catts eare.
Picture the arrow; nothing but the arrow.
Creative"
"Dangerously emo.
An odd symbol, rather like a triangular eye, glistened from a golden chain around his neck.
I don't really have a style icon but I really admire the way people dress like Gaga, Rihanna and Gwen Stefani. It's good to be inspired by singers who write music and dress incredibly - rather than models and people in the fashion industry who dress immaculately anyway because it's their style.
We didn't have the phrase 'style icon' when I was young, but I have to say, I really copied Bob Dylan when I was younger: a little bit of Bob Dylan or a lot of Bob Dylan and the French symbolist poets - I liked how they dressed - and Catholic school boys.
My style icon really for my whole life has been my mother.
Rather than a big figure, I guess you could say I'm more of an influential minority symbol.
[Graphics] is a strict and simple system of signs, which anyone can learn to use and which leads to better understanding.
Lunar. Cyborg. Fugitive. Outlaw. Outcast.