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Breasts are a scandal because they shatter the border between motherhood and sexuality. — Iris Marion Young

Understated jewellery is not for me. It's too itsy-bitsy. My husband is lucky, as I've never had a yen for real jewels. — Iris Apfel

If even a dog's tooth is truly worshipped it glows with light. The venerated object is endowed with power . . . - Iris Murdoch, The Sea, the Sea — Christopher Buckley

Coco Chanel said take one thing off. I always said put another one on. — Iris Apfel

Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating! — Iris Murdoch

I was mainly influenced by the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, and others like Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash. — Iris Dement

I swear on everything holy I do not know what's on the Internet about me. — Iris Apfel

I just never want to completely grow up. — Iris Apfel

I don't have any rules, because I would only be breaking them, so it's a waste of time — Iris Apfel

I love a nice hot pink. I like thick lipstick, otherwise it doesn't look like you're wearing any. — Iris Apfel

Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream. — Iris Murdoch

Upon the demon-ridden pilgrimage of human life, what next I wonder. — Iris Murdoch

Being in love is an exhausting business. — Iris Murdoch

Oh the piercing sadness of life in the midst of its ordinariness! — Iris Murdoch

Everybody could have their body scanned and order clothes that fit perfectly — Iris Van Herpen

It is true that in general, energy which is aimed at positive factors usually obtains better results than energy invested in resistance! — Iris Eshel

The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries. — Iris Murdoch

Dead my old fine hopes
And dry my dreaming but still ...
Iris, blue each spring — Shushiki

I've found peace here at the co-op. You could stay with us, if you want. Become a ROFLcopter. — Rick Riordan

Shock can kill you. Shock is terrible. But what you've got to do is live in the present, which is what I have always done. — Iris Apfel

Every night is an imitation of death. Without that I would have killed myself long ago.' She — Iris Murdoch

corrections." "Global corrections? — Iris Johansen

Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth - well, it's like brown - it's not in the spectrum. Truth is so generic. — Iris Murdoch

There's smoke in my iris, but I painted a sunny day on the insides of my eyelids — Aesop Rock

Enough of this soul-searching. What would be, would be. She could only do what she thought was right. — Iris Johansen

But death is not easy, and life can win by simulating it. — Iris Murdoch

Never be afraid to stop traffic. — Iris Apfel

Silence & smile are two powerful tools. Smile is the way to solve many problems & Silence is the way to avoid many problems.
— Iris Johansen

The world, like a great iris of an even more gigantic eye, which has also just opened and stretched out to encompass everything, stared back at him. — Ray Bradbury

I felt a deep grief that crouched and stayed still as if it was afraid to move. — Iris Murdoch

But people have their own troubles and tend to forget. One is not all that interesting. Even Hitler is being forgotten at last. — Iris Murdoch

A middling talent makes for a more serene life. — Iris Murdoch

I think being a woman is like being Irish ... Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the time. — Iris Murdoch

Often, what you see in the media is driven by economic forces. — Iris Chang

Given the choice, I would spend my money on accessories. — Iris Apfel

There's different shopping in Paris than there is at a bazaar in Istanbul, but they're all wonderful. — Iris Apfel

How rarely can happiness be really innocent and not triumphant, not an insult to the deprived. — Iris Murdoch

was everything. Eve — Iris Johansen

I took a deep breath, however, and followed my rule of never speaking frankly to women in moments of emotion. No good ever comes of this. — Iris Murdoch

We're all on the same page. — Iris Cuevas

I love high-end designers, but a head-to-toe designer look for me is extremely boring. I've always mixed it up. — Iris Apfel

Clothes are not frippery. Properly done, they can be an art form. — Iris Apfel

Marriage isn't a tram. It doesn't have to get anywhere. — Iris Murdoch

One doesn't have to get anywhere in a marriage. It's not a public conveyance. — Iris Murdoch

It's easy to blame everyone else when it hurts to blame yourself. But in the end you have to face it. — Iris Johansen

I don't describe myself as a Christian or religious, but I like to think that how I live my life is honest. — Iris Dement

Sartre turns love into a 'battle between two hypnotists in a closed room'. — Iris Murdoch

God lives and works in history. The outward mythology changes, the inward truth remains the same. — Iris Murdoch

Anything that consoles is fake. — Iris Murdoch

I don't count myself as a fashionista because I do a lot of other things. That's just a small part of my life. — Iris Apfel

Writers are always critical of themselves and I'm no exception. I always feel that maybe I could have done better. — Iris Johansen

In my view, you can't go to the future if you haven't come from the past. — Iris Apfel

Waiting in fear is surely one of the most awful of human tribulations. — Iris Murdoch

I don't look at Instagram. I don't have much to do with social media. — Iris Apfel

Violence is born of the desire to escape oneself. — Iris Murdoch

It's better to be happy than to be well-dressed. — Iris Apfel

It is really quite remarkable," Sarah said, "that the two of you
are sisters."
"I marvel at it every day," Iris said flatly. — Julia Quinn

My guitar is really tempermental. I don't give up on it though, I'm close to my guitar! — Iris Dement

I'm happy if I can help anybody. I'm more than happy to, but you have to find your own path. — Iris Apfel

More is more and less is a bore. — Iris Apfel

Imagine someone pointing to a place in the iris of a Rembrandt eye and saying, 'The walls of my room should be painted this color. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

moved through a soft tide — Iris Murdoch

I always tell people I'm very large in Uzbekistan. — Iris Apfel

This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it. — Iris Dement

My personal peculiarities could not offend her since she was totally uninterested in my pretensions to be a person. — Iris Murdoch

One should go easy on smashing other people's lies. Better to concentrate on one's own. — Iris Murdoch

Penetrates your iris, tenderest of sphincters, — Neal Stephenson

Guilt keeps people imprisoned in themselves. — Iris Murdoch

My silver iris necklace, like my father said have a meaning the petals represent faith, valor and wisdom. — Hilary Duff

If your hair is done properly you can get away with anything — Iris Apfel

I wasn't interested at all in doing a documentary. I was not a public figure. — Iris Apfel

Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods. — Iris Murdoch

Call me more things. Call me yours. — Leah Raeder

Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph. — Iris Murdoch

People who boast of happy marriages are, I submit, usually self-deceivers, if not actually liars. — Iris Murdoch

We have to keep in mind that it's not just about the numbers of people who died; it's also the manner which many of these victims met their deaths. — Iris Chang

Nothing is more maddening than being questioned by the object of one's interest about the object of hers, should that object not be you. — Iris Murdoch

Humor is important in everything. Dress with a little humor and you can go a long way. — Iris Apfel

I can see this so clearly because I have long ago given up my own hopes of being happy. — Iris Murdoch

Coming nearer and — Iris Johansen

I played Iris Murdoch, who had not long died, and I felt the responsibility very heavy on my shoulders. — Judi Dench

For a long time I was interested in being a social worker. In a lot of ways I feel that that's all my music is, trying to help people. — Iris Dement

How huge it is, how empty, this great space for which I have been longing all my life. Still no letters. — Iris Murdoch

I think getting the rest of the guys in the band to write is important. — Donnie Iris

The best thing about being God would be making the heads. — Iris Murdoch

I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else. — Iris Dement

I think if women put some more of the time and money they put on their heads in their heads, they'd be better off. — Iris Apfel

I'm not going to be a rebel and offend anybody, but I'm not going to live in somebody else's image. — Iris Apfel

If you're lucky enough to get old, I think you should celebrate it. — Iris Apfel

I just mix and put things together the way the spirit moves me. — Iris Apfel

It's better to be happy and comfortable than well dressed. — Iris Apfel

Some guy refuses to fight and we call that the sin, but he's standing up for what he believes in and that seems pretty damned American to me. — Iris Dement

Good writing is full of surprises and novelties, moving in a direction you don't expect. — Iris Murdoch

We re all muddlers. The thing is to see is when one's got to stop muddling. — Iris Murdoch

When you believe you have a future, you think in terms of generations and years. When you do not, you live not just by the day - but by the minute. — Iris Chang

Colour can raise the dead. — Iris Apfel

Art is brief. (Not in a temporal sense.) [ ... ] Words are for concealment. Art is concealment. — Iris Murdoch

I never just went to look for clothes and style; I always find that wherever I go. — Iris Apfel

I see myself as the world's oldest living teenager ... I try to get as much kick out of things as possible. — Iris Apfel

What a test that is: more than devotion, admiration, passion. If you long and long for someone's company you love them. — Iris Murdoch