
“For me, Madonna has been not only a queer icon but also a Christ icon”
О Мадонне
Source: 1960s, Counterblast (1969), p. 5
“For me, Madonna has been not only a queer icon but also a Christ icon”
О Мадонне
Describing the Oxford English Dictionary in The Globe & Mail http://wordsmith.org/awad/article-globeandmail.html
“An icon of the struggle for life.”
Nelson Mandela
The Body: The Complete HIV/AIDS Resource http://www.thebody.com/content/news/art42594.html
Sourced quotes, Interview with Romain Gavras for Interview (2010)
On The Algebra of Logic (1885)
Context: I call a sign which stands for something merely because it resembles it, an icon. Icons are so completely substituted for their objects as hardly to be distinguished from them. Such are the diagrams of geometry. A diagram, indeed, so far as it has a general signification, is not a pure icon; but in the middle part of our reasonings we forget that abstractness in great measure, and the diagram is for us the very thing. So in contemplating a painting, there is a moment when we lose the consciousness that it is not the thing, the distinction of the real and the copy disappears, and it is for the moment a pure dream, — not any particular existence, and yet not general. At that moment we are contemplating an icon.
“So nice to be a fashion icon in my day.”
On a Saturday Night Live skit featuring her in a pantsuit. Rhode Island, February 2008.
Presidential campaign (January 20, 2007 – 2008)
“Our primary concern is not to be style icons ourselves.”
Scots Are So Stylish... (2007)
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No such headline has ever been found in The Times at the period in question (the spring and summer of 1929), though one paragraph reads "An earthquake was felt yesterday between Illapel, to the north, and Talca, to the south, in Chile. No damage was done." (August 6, 1929). Source: The Quote... Unquote Newsletter (October, 2000) pp. 2-3.
A Discord of Trumpets (1956)
“Everything known before it happens; and headlines twice the size of the events.”
Source: Over the River (1933), Ch. 27
Homage to the square' (1964), Oral history interview with Josef Albers' (1968)