Iconic famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The United States stock market, the most iconic market in global capitalism, is rigged,
-- Michael Lewis

#United States #Capitalism #Iconic
When you play someone who is an iconic figure you can't go into it lightly.
-- Penelope Wilton

#Play #Figures #Iconic
I appear to be drawn to iconic characters and what they reflect back to our cultures.
-- Tom Hooper

#Character #Culture #Iconic
Here's the thing: celebrities understand the power of original ideas because often that's why they act. They want to be in movies that tell a story. They know the power of iconic imagery. Often, you find that people really want to participate.
-- Glenda Bailey

#People #Imagery #Iconic
I don't think comics use iconic forms - or they don't have to. But that makes them even more "cool," if I understand the idea. One has to be quite involved to make comics work. Signals have to be decoded on both the verbal and visual level, simultaneously, and the reader must do a lot of cognitive work between panels as well. Comics definitely need an engaged reader.
-- Jessica Abel

#Thinking #Iconic
Reality also is that there are a lot of gaps, there are a lot of business in between the iconic things.
-- Adam Shankman

#Reality #Gaps #Iconic
With Mass Effect we said, "Let's reflect the fact that you can be almost anyone, do almost anything, but..." In our minds, we always felt the character was iconic.
-- Greg Zeschuk

#Character #Mind #Iconic

Any time things appear to be going better, you have overlooked something.
I always say: 'Share your happiness with the world, give other people that happiness and let it come back,' but some things make me question it. I don't know if I want some people to know that I am happy. I think a lot of people want to take it away from you, and that's really scary.
Sometimes a journey arises out of hope and instinct, the heady conviction, as your finger travels along the map: Yes, here and here ... and here. These are the nerve-ends of the world ...
If you are an artist and you are honest, you are never good enough.
Truth is dangerous. It topples palaces and kills kings. It stirs gentle men to rage and bids them take up arms. It wakes old grievances and opens forgotten wounds. It is the mother of the sleepless night and the hag-ridden day. And yet there is one thing that is more dangerous than Truth. Those who would silence Truthâ€™s voice are more destructive by far. It is most perilous to be a speaker of Truth. Sometimes one must choose to be silent, or be silenced. But if a truth cannot be spoken, it must at least be known. Even if you dare not speak truth to others, never lie to yourself.
Kids can make a difference by telling an adult about any bullying they see. Kids need to know that they can be helpful in a bad situation if they get help quickly and also they need to stand up for the child that's being bullied.
What a seaOf melting ice I walk on!
The old age of women is bearable only on condition that they do not take up any room, do not make any noise, do not demand any service; on condition that they render all the service that is expected of them, and actually have no existence except for the good of others.
Israel cannot afford to stand against the entire world and be denounced as the aggressor.
The party should stand for a constantly wider diffusion of property. That is the greatest social and economic security that can come to free men. It makes men free.