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«Cheese steaks are the gastronomic icons of this ethnic city.»
«The world has lost its quintessential romantic icon.»
Author: David Ansen | Keywords: icon, icons, quintessential
«These are icons to be treasured.»
Author: Robert Stack (Actor) | Keywords: icon, icons
«I never think of myself as an icon. What is in other people's minds is not in my mind. I just do my thing.»
Author: Audrey Hepburn (Actress) | Keywords: icon, icons
«Iconic clothing has been secularized. A guardsman in a dress uniform is ostensibly an icon of aggression; his coat is red as the blood he hopes to shed. Seen on a coat-hanger, with no man inside it, the uniform loses all its blustering significance and, to the innocent eye seduced by decorative color and tactile braid, it is as abstract in symbolic information as a parasol to an Eskimo. It becomes simply magnificent.»
«When I was a ten-year-old book worm and used to kiss the dust jacket pictures of authors as if they were icons, it used to amaze me that these remote people could provoke me to love»