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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
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 just never want to completely grow up.
— 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
Being in love is an exhausting business.
— Iris Murdoch
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
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
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
— 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
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
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
Marriage isn't a tram. It doesn't have to get anywhere.
— 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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