Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

- Evelyn Waugh

I'm not a sex symbol.

- Jenny McCarthy

You'd be hard-pressed to find an actor who isn't a sex symbol somewhere.

- Jamie Dornan

Light is the symbol of truth.

- James Russell Lowell

It's into the same bag as E.T. and Yoda, wherein you're trying to create something that people will actually believe, but it's not so much a symbol of the thing, but you're trying to do the thing itself.

- Jim Henson

I don't know what it means to be a sex symbol. When I look myself on a magazine cover I don't see it as me, but as someone painted, fluffed, puffed and done up.

- Jennifer Aniston

Mick Jagger, his face was very new. It became a sex symbol.

- Isaac Mizrahi

I still don't buy the idea that I'm a 'sex symbol.'

- Hope Solo

Iraq is just a symbol of the attitude of western democracies to the rest of the world.

- Harold Pinter

I was asked to be in Vogue but I said no. I didn't want to advertise make-up. I didn't want to be seen as a sex symbol.

- Francesca Annis

The seed is a household object but at the same time it is a revolutionary symbol.

- Ai Weiwei

I'm passionate about being an actor, but I'm definitely not passionate about being a sex symbol.

- Dustin Clare

It's not like I go out there to be a sex symbol. I mean, it's nice of course - but embarrassing.

- Daniel Craig

I'm the girl next door, not the sex symbol.

- Carla Gallo

I'm more like a spoon symbol. I think women just want to spoon me.

- Chris O'Dowd

This monument is going to be built as a symbol.

- Bill Russell

I'm somewhere between a gumshoe and a journalist. A writer, not a symbol.

- Bill Callahan

Mr. Burns is a father symbol to me, and you can omit the word symbol.

- Bobby Darin

Al-Aksa is a religious and national symbol.

- Ayman Odeh

I look at the Star of David as a symbol of righteousness.

- Amar'e Stoudemire