Great personal style is an extreme curiosity about yourself.
IRIS APFEL You learn as you grow up, if you're intelligent - or even three-quarter witted - that there'...
IRIS APFEL I was always known in my industry, and I always enjoyed a modicum of popularity.
IRIS APFEL Coco Chanel once said that what makes a woman look old is trying desperately to look young. Why shou...
IRIS APFEL I am not a fashionista, and I don't dress up. Usually if I'm at home, where I am now, I'...
IRIS APFEL I never buy what someone says is 'in' or a 'must-have.' I buy what makes me happy.
IRIS APFEL Shock can kill you. Shock is terrible. But what you've got to do is live in the present, which i...
IRIS APFEL You don't find out who you are unless you work at it.
IRIS APFEL I'm not a pretty person. I don't like pretty, so I don't feel badly. Most of the world i...
IRIS APFEL My father told me once not to expect anything from anybody so I wouldn't be disappointed. If som...
IRIS APFEL Colour can raise the dead.
IRIS APFEL I never had to look for confidence because I just wore what I wanted to wear. I would never wear any...
IRIS APFEL Self-exploration is very painful, but unless you do that, you will never know who you are and who yo...
IRIS APFEL You can change the look of an outfit so easily by changing the kind of jewellery you wear. If you ha...
IRIS APFEL I have ideas that I think might be amusing, and I try them, and if they look right, I carry them out...
IRIS APFEL Aging gracefully is about no heavy makeup, and not too much powder because it gets into the wrinkles...
IRIS APFEL I'm a hopeless romantic. I buy things because I fall in love with them. I never buy anything jus...
IRIS APFEL If you don't learn constantly, you don't grow, and you will wither. Too many people wither o...
IRIS APFEL Just because you get to a certain number doesn't mean you have to roll up into a ball and wait f...
IRIS APFEL You have to push yourself when you're older because it's very easy to fall into the trap. Yo...
IRIS APFEL I don't happen to approve of plastic surgery. I think God put plastic surgeons on this earth for...
IRIS APFEL My look is either very baroque or very Zen - everything in between makes me itch.
IRIS APFEL I live in the Dark Ages, the 17th century. Actually, I would have loved to be in Paris in the early ...
IRIS APFEL My mother was a big influence; she was exceedingly chic, completely dressed in a completely differen...
IRIS APFEL I mix everything up. A museum curator once said to me that there is a great jazz component to the wa...
IRIS APFEL I'd rather go to a flea market than just about anything. It's the process I like - the same ...
IRIS APFEL The world is not black and white; there are lots of shades of grey. There are good things and bad th...
IRIS APFEL I'm a practical person. Most fashion people live in the clouds, and they're full of it. I li...
IRIS APFEL I call myself a geriatric starlet.
IRIS APFEL I had a very brilliant father who was not only intellectual, but was street-smart and very curious t...
IRIS APFEL I had the good fortune to be able to take a course with Margaret Mead. I had a fabulous art course, ...
IRIS APFEL I think people should express themselves more and not just buy what's in. While it can be very b...
IRIS APFEL There's different shopping in Paris than there is at a bazaar in Istanbul, but they're all w...
IRIS APFEL People with a lot of money don't dress as well as people who have to make do, who have to be inv...
IRIS APFEL Technology is a wonderful thing, but I think it's violently misused.
IRIS APFEL I'm from New York. My grandparents were settlers of Long Island City. When they came here, there...
IRIS APFEL Creativity is down the tube. And people give a lot of lip service to individuality. I know they all ...
IRIS APFEL Fashion has this youth mania. But 70-year-old ladies don't have 18-year-old bodies, and 18-year-...
IRIS APFEL I love high-end designers, but a head-to-toe designer look for me is extremely boring. I've alwa...
IRIS APFEL Throughout history, clothes represented who you were; they are a great vehicle for explaining who yo...
IRIS APFEL The fashion industry has done itself in by neglecting the 60- to 80-year-old market. They have the t...
IRIS APFEL There was Pauline de Rothschild, who I thought was very fabulous, and Millicent Rogers, the Standard...
IRIS APFEL We did major work at the White House. But what people often don't understand is that when you do...
IRIS APFEL I think some people like me because I'm different. I don't think like everybody else. People...
IRIS APFEL I go out in New York, and I think, boy, you can look at someone and pretty much determine their zip ...
IRIS APFEL I absolutely consider fashion a form of art. Of course, there is some fashion that is not art at all...
IRIS APFEL I think people have to sharpen their eyes and look. I always feel like a big sponge: I feel like I l...
IRIS APFEL I was never a fan of Chanel. I liked it on other people. Some other people. All the ladies who were ...
IRIS APFEL Technologically, I live in the 17th century; I don't have a computer, I don't have any of th...
IRIS APFEL You can't try to be somebody you're not; that's not style. If someone says, 'Buy thi...
IRIS APFEL I wasn't interested at all in doing a documentary. I was not a public figure.
IRIS APFEL I didn't have children, but I never wanted children.
IRIS APFEL I'm far from being perfect but I've learned to recognize my mistakes and to be open for a change
IRIS You keep thinking of someone while doing important jobs, you love him/her.
IRIS The program has changed in the past to meet the demands of the times and must do so again.
KENNETH APFEL The new statements will have in them a person's earnings over their lifetime, from that very first j...
KENNETH APFEL I would hate to see a future U.S. Social Security commissioner urging American older workers to just...
KENNETH APFEL It's a good financial planning tool, ... We're hoping it will help people understand what Social Sec...
KENNETH APFEL I daresay anything can be made holy by being sincerely worshipped.
IRIS MURDOCH The cry of equality pulls everyone down.
IRIS MURDOCH Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.
IRIS MURDOCH Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes.
IRIS MURDOCH Anything that consoles is fake.
IRIS MURDOCH In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon b...
IRIS MURDOCH The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years withou...
IRIS MURDOCH In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all.
IRIS MURDOCH I write 'by the seat of my pants.' I love to do research. I am inspired by contemporary writ...
IRIS JOHANSEN I am more of a suspense writer. A mystery writer solves mysteries. I am a 'high suspense' wr...
IRIS JOHANSEN The greatest compliment a writer can be given is that a story and character hold a reader spellbound...
IRIS JOHANSEN I was just as voracious a writer as I was a reader.
IRIS JOHANSEN After the children grew up, I began to focus on my writing. My first books were part of a trilogy......
IRIS JOHANSEN I've always been aware of having feelings that were pretty intense at times. I imagine most peop...
IRIS DEMENT If something bothers me, it bothers me for a long time until I find a way to work it out. Music prov...
IRIS DEMENT I've always written about things that cause me to feel something.
IRIS DEMENT My guitar is really tempermental. I don't give up on it though, I'm close to my guitar!
IRIS DEMENT Writing, overall, has never been what I'd call fun. It's fulfilling. It doesn't come rea...
IRIS DEMENT Making the record was tons of fun, the most fun I've ever had.
IRIS DEMENT Some guy refuses to fight and we call that the sin, but he's standing up for what he believes in...
IRIS DEMENT I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result o...
IRIS DEMENT Maybe I spent more time dwelling on emotions than some people, and maybe that's why I ended up w...
IRIS DEMENT Turn off the TV and start digging around for information that's not from a corporation trying to...
IRIS DEMENT I was mainly influenced by the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, and other...
IRIS DEMENT I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
IRIS DEMENT Most of the music you hear on the radio today is developed for making money. It doesn't feel tru...
IRIS DEMENT And I've been walking 'round with memories way too long.
IRIS DEMENT There isn't much discussion of ruling class in America even in Boston, probably one of the most ...
IRIS CHANG Of course, in the United States, which at the time was a very young country, there were also class d...
IRIS CHANG Often, what you see in the media is driven by economic forces.
IRIS CHANG It is very difficult to hang onto the relics of history.
IRIS CHANG Now, most of the new immigrants coming to this country are from Asia as opposed to Europe.
IRIS CHANG Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else...
IRIS CHANG The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments o...
IRIS CHANG If the conditions were right there could be great acceptance. Often it is only when they pose an eco...
IRIS CHANG It was clear that the special interest groups in California really wanted the Chinese to be shut out...
IRIS CHANG For some reason, I seem to be bothered whenever I see acts of injustice and assaults on people's...
IRIS CHANG Almost all people have this potential for evil, which would be unleashed only under certain dangerou...
IRIS CHANG We have to keep in mind that it's not just about the numbers of people who died; it's also t...
IRIS CHANG I received an honorary doctorate for my work. Maybe one of these works is considered the equivalent ...
IRIS CHANG After working as a journalist I went to a writing program at Johns Hopkins. It was interesting becau...
IRIS CHANG It's a wonderful thing to see a segment of our population that is open and eager to learn more a...
IRIS CHANG When you take something extremely broad, then it is not a work of expansion or work of compression. ...
IRIS CHANG Somebody who was born in this country who visited China would later face difficulty getting back in ...
IRIS CHANG I don't mind solitude. I love talking to other people, but I do need my space.
IRIS CHANG I may attempt a novel. I think that no matter what you write, it requires being honest with oneself,...
IRIS CHANG There isn't much in the way of pure communist spirit, because the whole nation seems to be engag...
IRIS CHANG They probably do have an Asian Barbie.
IRIS CHANG I have certainly amassed many historical research gathering skills.
IRIS CHANG Racism is always there underneath, but usually it is exploited in these times of economic crisis, an...
IRIS CHANG Whatever is not commonly seen is condemned as alien.
IRIS CHANG The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitu...
IRIS MURDOCH No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to th...
IRIS MURDOCH Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.
IRIS MURDOCH Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real. -Iris Murdoch.
IRIS MURDOCH The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinpr...
IRIS MURDOCH I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take sec...
IRIS MURDOCH Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
IRIS MURDOCH Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.
IRIS MURDOCH Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.
IRIS MURDOCH We defend ourself with descriptions and tame the world by generalizing.
IRIS MURDOCH The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinpri...
IRIS MURDOCH We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.
IRIS MURDOCH Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a cont...
IRIS MURDOCH We can only learn to love by loving.
IRIS MURDOCH Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth -- well, it's like brown -- it's not in the spectrum. Trut...
IRIS MURDOCH Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!
IRIS MURDOCH In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all.
IRIS MURDOCH He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to g...
IRIS MURDOCH A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little ...
IRIS MURDOCH Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions.
IRIS MURDOCH There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.
IRIS MURDOCH Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved.
IRIS MURDOCH Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.
IRIS MURDOCH People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such...
IRIS MURDOCH The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since ...
IRIS MURDOCH But fantasy kills imagination, pornography is death to art.
IRIS MURDOCH Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.
IRIS MURDOCH A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
IRIS MURDOCH Possibly, more people kill themselves and others out of hurt vanity than out of envy, jealousy, ma...
IRIS MURDOCH We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.
IRIS MURDOCH Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's lu...
IRIS MURDOCH We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.
IRIS MURDOCH Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
IRIS MURDOCH There is also an epidemic of infertility in this country. There are more women who have put off chil...
IRIS CHANG There are now hundreds of thousands of new engineers that are being trained in China. If people star...
IRIS CHANG A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
IRIS MURDOCH The worst... was what the Pakistani soldiers did to the Bengali women after their failed rebellion.
IRIS CHANG Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and l...
IRIS MURDOCH The poppy opes her scarlet purse of dreams.
SCHARMEL IRIS I think being a woman is like being Irish... Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take s...
IRIS MURDOCH Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
IRIS MURDOCH Possibly, more people kill themselves and others out of hurt vanity than out of envy, jealousy, mali...
IRIS MURDOCH All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.
IRIS MURDOCH Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.
IRIS MURDOCH Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively an...
IRIS MURDOCH It took the tenacity and spirit of thousands and thousands of women who worked in an unrelenting way...
IRIS NELSON Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth - well, it's like brown - it's not in the spectrum...
IRIS MURDOCH The Committee of 100 commissioned a survey in which they found that Asian-American candidates are th...
IRIS CHANG ¿Cuál es la diferencia que existe entre yo y estas pequeñas y humildes criaturas? La araña teje ...
IRIS MURDOCH If your feet are firmly planted on the ground you'll never be able to dance.
IRIS JOHANSEN I get a lot of inspiration from the audience feedback to our live shows.
DONNIE IRIS I hate solitude, but I'm afraid of intimacy. The substance of my life is a private conversation with...
IRIS MURDOCH There was something factitious and brittle and thereby utterly feminine about her charm which made m...
IRIS MURDOCH The lights are all out everywhere.
IRIS CHENAULT Yes, of course, there's something fishy about describing people's feelings. You try hard to be accur...
IRIS MURDOCH Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and livel...
IRIS MURDOCH Mercifully one forgets one's love affairs as one forgets one's dreams.
IRIS MURDOCH Man's creative struggle, his search for wisdom and truth, is a love story
IRIS MURDOCH The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitu...
IRIS MURDOCH Jealousy is the most dreadfully involuntary of all sins
IRIS MURDOCH One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats
IRIS MURDOCH We defend ourself with descriptions and tame the world by generalizing
IRIS MURDOCH I see myself as Rhoda, not Mary Tyler Moore.
IRIS MURDOCH Often what is deeply offensive to Chinese-Americans that they are really well-represented in medicin...
IRIS CHANG But one must do something about the past. It doesn’t just cease to be. It goes on existing and aff...
IRIS MURDOCH These episodes of racism occur in cycles.
IRIS CHANG Some quirk in human nature allows even the most unspeakable acts of evil to become banal within minu...
IRIS CHANG I don't mind solitude. I love talking to other people, but I do need my space.
IRIS CHANG Racism is always there underneath, but usually it is exploited in these times of economic crisis, an...
IRIS CHANG The Japanese even forced fathers to rape their own daughters or sons their mothers, brothers their s...
IRIS CHANG While the light remains,' said Carde, speaking slowly in his high deliberate voice, 'only do not for...
IRIS MURDOCH Amo amas amat amamus amatis amant amavi amavisti amavit amavimus amavistis amaverunt amavero amaveri...
IRIS MURDOCH Education doesn’t make you happy. Nor does freedom. We don’t become happy just because we’re f...
IRIS MURDOCH Men all across China are going to have trouble finding wives in just a few years.
IRIS CHANG Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.
IRIS MURDOCH Mystery writing involves solving a puzzle, but 'high suspense' writing is a situation whereb...
IRIS JOHANSEN ... male company, sheer complicit male company: the complicity of males which is like, indeed is, a ...
IRIS MURDOCH Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved
IRIS MURDOCH What is more tormenting than a meeting after a long time, when all the words fall to the ground like...
IRIS MURDOCH ...lace is formed from the absence of substance; it is imagined in the spaces between the threads. L...
IRIS ANTHONY Even if readers claim that they 'take it all with a grain of salt', they do not really. They yearn t...
IRIS MURDOCH As the Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel warned years ago, to forget a holocaust is to kill twice.
IRIS CHANG Love generates, or rather reveals, something which may be called absolute charm. In the beloved noth...
IRIS MURDOCH The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more ...
IRIS MURDOCH Then I felt too that I might take this opportunity to tie up a few loose ends, only of course loose ...
IRIS MURDOCH I know how much you grieve over those who are under your care: those you try to help and fail, those...
IRIS MURDOCH 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 ...
IRIS JOHANSEN People were worried; they thought we were going to go to nuclear war when there was a conflict with ...
IRIS WEINSHALL We find stuff all the time, but what's sort of eerie about this is that this is a bridge that thousa...
IRIS WEINSHALL In attempting to minimize congestion, perhaps we were more cautious than we should have been.
IRIS WEINSHALL It's not like we're putting this on eBay.
IRIS WEINSHALL