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I just enjoy translating, it's like opening one's mouth and hearing someone else's voice emerge. — Iris Murdoch

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

Technology is a wonderful thing, but I think it's violently misused. — Iris Apfel

I'm delighted that gay people want to get married and I say why not! It's nobody's business and I would happily give my blessing. — 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

Man's creative struggle, his search for wisdom and truth, is a love story. — Iris Murdoch

Probably no adult misery can be compared with a child's despair. — Iris Murdoch

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

The biographer's real business - if it is not too arrogant to say so - is simply this: to bring the dead to life. — Iris Origo

I'm a hopeless romantic. I buy things because I fall in love with them. I never buy anything just because it's valuable. — Iris Apfel

The true rose, the miracle of nature, owed nothing to the hand of man. — Iris Murdoch

Hatred can eat at you until there's nothing left, until you become the thing you hate. — Iris Johansen

I can't tell people how to have style. No amount of money can buy you style. It's just instinctive. — Iris Apfel

Fashion has this youth mania. But 70-year-old ladies don't have 18-year-old bodies, and 18-year-olds don't have a 70-year-old's dollars. — Iris Apfel

I find beauty in the continual shaping of chaos which clearly embodies the primordial power of nature's performance — Iris Van Herpen

Being homosexual doesn't determine a man's whole character any more than being heterosexual does. — Iris Murdoch

In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all. — Iris Murdoch

We got CEOs making 200 times the worker's pay, but they'll fight like hell against raising the minimum wage. — Iris Dement

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

Happy is the civilization which can breed men accustomed from infancy to regard certain at least of the ego's natural activities as unthinkable. — Iris Murdoch

In the Spring a livelier iris changes on the burnish'd dove;
In the Spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

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

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 count myself as a fashionista because I do a lot of other things. That's just a small part of my life. — Iris Apfel

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

Where you are,there I'll be.Make up your mind to it.You may not love me now bt you will.I'll see to it — Iris Johansen

Another person's illness is often harder to bear than one's own. — Iris Murdoch

There is nothing like early promiscuous sex for dispelling life's bright mysterious expectations. — Iris Murdoch

The White House is the people's house. When you do historical restoration, that must be what it is. — Iris Apfel

Love doesn't think like that. All right, it's blind as a bat
'
'Bats have radar. Yours doesn't seem to be working. — Iris Murdoch

I'd want to hold you if you were going to lead me down to hell. Because if that's where you were, that's where I'd want to be. — Iris Johansen

The fun of getting dressed is it's a creative experience. — Iris Apfel

When caught unawares I usually tell the truth, and what's duller than that? — Iris Murdoch

I am Mary Iris Malone, and I am empty, cleaned the fuck out. All that's left is a fierce hunger for flight. — David Arnold

That night Ana Iris and I go to a movie. We cannot understand the English but we both like the new theater's clean rugs. — Junot Diaz

Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. — Iris Murdoch

A long marriage is very unifying, even if it's not ideal, and those old structures must be respected. — Iris Murdoch

This isn't a countertop sex kind of moment, Iris.
What kind of moment is it, then?
It's a showing you how beautiful you are moment. — J.R. Richardson

It's easier to sell junk when you're known than works of genius when you're unknown. — Iris Murdoch

Turn off the TV and start digging around for information that's not from a corporation trying to make money. — Iris Dement

Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck. — Iris Murdoch

It's hard to know what's right when everyone thinks you're wrong. — Iris Johansen

I can't be easy. It's not my nature. But it's my nature to love you. — Iris Johansen

My your balls wither away and you develop and allergy to Viagra and all it's counter-parts
(Sophie to Royd) — Iris Johansen

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

Writing, overall, has never been what I'd call fun. It's fulfilling. It doesn't come real easy for me. — Iris Dement

Would be important to ascertain whether a man's son was his own through a wife's purity, but where marriage was not involved it was — Iris Johansen

Maybe I spent more time dwelling on emotions than some people, and maybe that's why I ended up writing. — Iris Dement

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

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

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

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

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

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