Top 44 Epitome Quotes

One of the toughest guys in the world is Randy Couture – he is the true epitome of what a tough guy is.

Hats are the epitome of Englishness, and a royal wedding is the penultimate moment for a hat designer. I’m Irish, but I am a royalist and I believe in fantasy.

Oftentimes, whenever I do interviews with guitar magazines and we discuss my influences, I mention people like Steve Morse, Alex Lifeson, Al Di Meola – but John Scofield’s name never comes up. And that’s funny because he’s so amazing; he’s the epitome of a really cool guitar player.

I found Ricky Ponting the hardest to bowl to and it was a great pleasure to play against him as he was genuinely one of the best that’s ever played and a really tough competitor as well. He hated you when you were on the field but he always shook your hand and was the epitome of ‘play hard but play fair.’

I was the epitome of rags to riches.

I see Walt Disney as kind of the epitome of a dreamer. He was a very forward thinker.

The NFL Legends Community is the epitome of service. This isn’t about promoting you anymore. It’s about promoting something bigger than you.

John Mayer is the epitome of the lead guitar player so I sent him an email with a bunch of my music and he sent back really detailed advice.

If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one word – prayer. Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell.

The free market is the epitome of life itself. This is something that all scientists recognise because science itself operates on free market lines.

When I was between the ages of five and nine, the soldiers of the Second World War wanted to have Betty Grable, but I wanted to be Betty Grable. She was the epitome of an alluring woman; she had it all as far as I was concerned.

Tiger Woods is the epitome of what people should try to be like in this country.

I am the American Dream. I am the epitome of what the American Dream basically said. It said you could come from anywhere and be anything you want in this country. That’s exactly what I’ve done.

I think that everybody has their own interpretations of what it means to be American. But from my vantage point, being black and successful in the Unites States of America is the epitome of being American.

It was a dream come true performing with her and just being on the same record. So in my eyes, she was the epitome of a great voice and for us to share together was awesome.

I do watch ‘American Idol’ sometimes. It’s not really that pleasurable… I take that back. It is the epitome of a guilty pleasure. Sometimes there’s some good singers on that show.

Opera is the most complete art form. It includes drama, acting, technology (lighting), art (the sets), dance, and the epitome of the human voices. But mostly, go for the glorious music. The arts are crucial to the life of every community.

I’m not an overnight sensation. I’m a Texan. And I’m a Texas success story. I am the epitome of hard work and optimism.

Tracy Smothers was the epitome of the perfect Smoky Mountain hero. He was legitimate.

I always thought that it was every performer’s dream. That’s the epitome of being an artist, being able to express song, dance and acting in a live theatre setting and really connecting with an audience on that level.

If you put on the military uniform, you’re a prima facie hero. Generals are the epitome of that. They’re the ones who have been most successful at the soldier’s trade.

Coming from the U.K., you realize how quiet England is, and as soon as you get to America, it’s really big and brash and loud out here, and South by Southwest was the epitome of that.

What is classical music if not the epitome of sensuality, passion, and understated erotica that popular music, even with all of its energy and life, cannot even begin to touch?

I didn’t want to be a rock and roller. I wanted to be a Bobby Darin because he was the epitome of the performer, the sophisticated.

If I ever feel like I don’t know what to do next, I always think about WWJD, like ‘what would J-Lo do,’ ’cause J-Lo for me is like the epitome of feminine sensuality, mixed with show stopping beauty.

Colgate is the epitome of having it both ways. Academically, it ranks in the top twenty schools in the country, but it is also a famous party school.

Just like if you leave energy free and uncontrolled and unregulated, it may become useless and destructive. Similarly, ‘shakti swaroopa stree’- woman as the epitome of power – does not really need freedom but a meaningful role with protection and channelisation.

Not only are we like the epitome of the American dream, we’ve been successful at the sport for so long that we know the Lopez name will always be part of the taekwondo world.

My brother and I spent our childhood in movie theaters screaming. I decided early on that that was the epitome of entertainment. I’m always trying for that same level of adrenaline in my books.

I had wanted to be a Calvin Klein model since I was 17. Marky Mark in his Calvin Kleins was the epitome of male sexuality. That was something I worked for.

I aspire to be like Paul Newman. He was a man’s man, a lady’s man, and the epitome of a philanthropist.

If you want more of the same, Mitch McConnell is your guy. He is the ultimate insider. He is the epitome of dysfunction in Washington.

Notoriously outspoken, his sentences always punctuated with profanities, General George S. Patton was the epitome of what a leader should be like – or so he thought. Patton believed a leader should look and act tough, so he cultivated his image and his personality to match his philosophy.

War is the epitome of hell for all involved. I know because I have been there and back.

It is pretty amazing. My parents, who came from Nicaragua to the U.S. – who would have thought that they would have American kids on the Olympic team? I think that’s the epitome of the Olympic dream.

You don’t think that mean people can be funny, and Jane Lynch is the epitome of that. If there could be, like, a gay version of ‘Mean Girls,’ I’d totally be in it.

This is the ultimate team sport, and I really feel that the quarterback position is the epitome of that.

As long as I’ve been at Clemson, there’s not a guy that’s more committed to Clemson than Kelly Bryant. There’s not a better leader. This guy, he’s the epitome of what you want. He’s what you want your son to be like. I love him like a son.

I am the epitome of a walking contradiction for various reasons, only one of which being that I feel my existence is of heaven and hell.

I used to love to see Willie Pep and Ray Robinson. To me, the epitome of a great athlete is a great boxer. I just love the rhythm of seeing a man dance, slip punches. I loved the dancers and boxers. I would see them and be mesmerized.

To me, my mother is very beautiful and the epitome of a woman. She knows how to balance a busy professional life with family life.

The classic hat image was during the Forties and Fifties, and Elizabeth Taylor was the epitome of that; she was the ultimate celebrity of excess and glamour, and she worked major sun hats.

Lyndon Johnson is not a comfortable model for President Obama to imitate. He is an all-but-forgotten president – pilloried for the failed war in Vietnam and criticized for grandiose reforms conservatives denounce as the epitome of federal social engineering that costs too much and does too little.

I am a huge fan of the supermodels from the ’80s and ’90s, like Naomi Campbell and Cindy Crawford. My ultimate favorite is Daniela Pestova. She is the epitome of a strong, healthy, sexy woman. I like working out and being fit, so I look up to women like her.