Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andy Cohen

We looked for the icons of the genre,

Charles Jencks

It's a mark of any icon that it should be open to iconoclasm.

Britney Spears

I don't see myself as an icon, because I just wear whatever I want to wear.

Denise Miller

One of the issues is that our icons are not yet our icons.

Amanda Hocking

Self-publishing is great, but I don't want to be an icon for it, or anything else.

Corazon Aquino

I am not an icon of democracy. You are all, collectively, the icon of democracy.

Corey Feldman

I'm more than an actor. I'm an icon, an industry.

Ashley Benson

My beauty icon is Angelina Jolie.

Ashley Madekwe

Daphne Guinness, who makes couture seem wearable, is an icon who influences what I wear.

Bela Bartok

Our peasant music, naturally, is invariably tonal, if not always in the sense that the inflexible major and minor system is tonal. (An "atonal" folk-music, in my opinion, is unthinkable.) Since we depend upon a tonal basis of this kind in our creative work, it is quite self-evident that our works are quite pronouncedly tonal in type. I must admit, however, that there was a time when I thought I was approaching a species of twelve-tone music. Yet even in works of that period the absolute tonal foundation is unmistakable.

Bede Griffiths

The one thing which you have to abandon unconditionally is your self.

B. R. Ambedkar

Learn to live in this world with self-respect

B. H. Liddell Hart

Avoid self-righteousness like the devil- nothing is so self-blinding.

B. F. Skinner

I've had only one idea in my life - a true idee fixe. To put it as bluntly as possible - the idea of having my own way. 'Control!' expresses it. The control of human behavior. In my early experimental days it was a frenzied, selfish desire to dominate. I remember the rage I used to feel when a prediction went awry. I could have shouted at the subjects of my experiments, 'Behave, damn you! Behave as you ought!

B. F. Skinner

A self is a repertoire of behavior appropriate to a given set of contingencies.

Billy Corgan

I've rarely done anything that's overtly self-destructive without consciously knowing what I'm doing. And then of course, the astute journalist jumps forward and says, "Why are you being calculated?" Calculated seems to assume a sinister intent. My intent is always for artistic effect.

Bill Crawford

To understand ourself, we must understand our "selves," or the parts of us that motivate our thoughts, decisions, and behaviors.

Bill Crawford

The key to self-confidence is knowing that you would choose you... and why. In this way the chosen becomes the chooser, and love versus fear becomes the energy of choice.

Rachel Campbell

Some of them aren't out yet and they've been wanting those.

Becca Fitzpatrick

I want Scott to look at me the way Patch looks at you.

Becca Fitzpatrick

I'm telling you this because I want you to know that I know something about you isn't right. You haven't fooled everybody. I'm going to find out what you're up to. I'm going to expose you." "Looking forward to it.

Barry Manilow

I've always wanted to marry Elton John.

Billy Corgan

In the beginning, though, I have to admit that I did have a chip on my shoulder. I did want to prove everyone wrong. But after I went through the process and came out the other side, it wasn't about anyone else.

Bill Sienkiewicz

But if I really want to produce my own work and tell stories, then I will

Bill Sienkiewicz

So I look at a lot of stuff now that I did and some of it looks tame to me, but my interest in terms of what I want to say with it is a little different

Bill Sienkiewicz

And that, to me, is the main attraction to comics. It's an avenue to say what you want to say

Bill Crawford

Freedom isn't about having permission to do whatever we want... it's about having the courage to do whatever fills our life with meaning.