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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'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 love a nice hot pink. I like thick lipstick, otherwise it doesn't look like you're wearing any.
— Iris Apfel
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
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
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
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
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
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
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'Bats have radar. Yours doesn't seem to be working. — Iris Murdoch
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'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
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
What kind of moment is it, then?
It's a showing you how beautiful you are moment. — J.R. Richardson
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
My your balls wither away and you develop and allergy to Viagra and all it's counter-parts
(Sophie to Royd) — Iris Johansen
(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
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
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 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