And I've been walking 'round with memories way too long.


Iris Dement

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

And I've been walking 'round with memories way too long.
IRIS DEMENT
I believe in you, my darling. I believe in you."
He closed his eyes.
And when he opened th...
ELIZABETH HOYT
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
Some guy refuses to fight and we call that the sin, but he's standing up for what he believes in and...
IRIS DEMENT
You know what, walking off the podium in 2004 with my team was enough. It's been a long career, and ...
BLAINE WILSON
His heart stilled at the mere thought of her hurting herself.
'He was a fool.' Of course this d...
ELIZABETH HOYT
It's been far too long. It's been far too long, and we're really hopeful it will end soon with this ...
AHILAN ARULANANTHAM
The doughy-faced woman has been forced to sit on the sidelines of culture for too long, and it's...
CAITLIN MORAN
It's been a long way, but we're here.
ALAN SHEPARD
I have some vivid memories of walking around as a child with a cassette tape.
JAMES VINCENT MCMORROW
There are too many books I haven’t read, too many places I haven’t seen, too many memories I hav...
IRWIN SHAW
There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven't seen, too many memories I haven't...
IRWIN SHAW
It's been so long since I've had a quality round,
BILL GLASSON
The science of fools with long memories.
JAMES ROBINSON PLANCHE
Because memories fall apart, too. And you're left with nothing.
JOHN GREEN
She moaned, long and low, wanting to arch, to thrash, to scream. Instead she opened her mouth and bi...
ELIZABETH HOYT
I want to make you weep. I want all your pleasure, Iris, all your pain, everything you are. Come for...
ELIZABETH HOYT
For a moment she studied the sketch. It had been done in pencil and the artist was very skilled. The...
ELIZABETH HOYT
It's been so long since I've had a quality round, ... For a minute there, I thought this is the way ...
BILL GLASSON
White Iris

The iris danced across
the ancient Grecian skies
gliding with her em...
MUSE
People have had nicknames as long as people have been walking.
CLEVELAND KENT EVANS
Just walking on board brings up a lot of wonderful memories.
BRUCE NELSON
There's a lot of good memories with that, too.
MARCO ANDRETTI
What sets Iris Stevenson apart is her success in a system that in no way supports her - with the har...
DAWN STEEL
Love comes a long way 'round, so reach for the sky and keep your feet on the ground."
TOMMY POLO
There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven't seen, too many memories I...
IRWIN SHAW
Shes been the biggest nightmare for me. Ive lost to her the most than any other player.
MEGHANN SHAUGHNESSY
The real American type can never be a ballet dancer. The legs are too long, the body too supple and ...
ISADORA DUNCAN
She's been improving with every round.
CLINT WALLMAN
Walking round the Champs-Elysees late at night is the greatest time.
ESTELLE
We've been too silent for too long. This should have been taken care of a long time ago.
LAKEISHA BRYANT
Long drives alone are good for clearing your mind; long drives with others are good for filling it w...
C.L. JEFFCOTT
It's been a long slog back, and we've still got a long way to go.
TED STRICKLAND
I need you here with me we look for our love but we dont find it im searching and searching, I reall...
SELENA GóMEZ
The war on drugs has been too long and too disgustingly failed and far too destructive.
JACK COLE
Either way. Everything is relevant. My round today could as well have been a 2 under and still be a ...
BRINY BAIRD
It has been a long time since consumers have been fooled by prices which are just under the round nu...
LEIGH SPARKS
The trouble with getting your hopes too far up is: it's a long way down.
NICOLA YOON
That's the trouble with living things. Don't last very long. Kittens one day, old cats the next. And...
NEIL GAIMAN
Some of the most untidy writers have also been the most productive. Iris Murdoch, for instance, wrot...
CRAIG BROWN
We're a long way away from someone like Willie Pep winning a round without throwing a punch.
BRIN-JONATHAN BUTLER
With the Ward area in general, if you can't find a parking spot in the parking area for the center, ...
JEFF ARMSTRONG
memories fall apart too.
JOHN GREEN
Women's value has been under-recognized for far too long.
SIDNEY SHELDON
He was ego-free, which was very rare in the design student world. Most design students had lots of e...
LEANDER KAHNEY
I probably left him out there too long. He got behind in counts, they were hitting him, he was walki...
DAVID RUARK
This January thaw lasted way too long.
JODY GALE
I've been burdened with blame trapped in the past for too long, I'm moving on
RASCAL FLATTS
Life is Too Short and Memories Are Forever!
REGULO ZAPATA JR.
You've been away from home too long if you can get lost on the way from the harbor to the palace.
DAVID EDDINGS
Ive created a new drink! I'm calling it the Piñata Colada! Its sweet and tasty, but when you wake u...
JOSé N. HARRIS
Behind me there are already so many memories (...) Lots of memories, but no point in remembering the...
IVAN TURGENEV
It's time for me to step up. It's been too long. It's been long overdue.
DANIEL PAILLE
Sixteen days is way too long. It's a long, long time to wait to play.
DEBBIE RYAN
Hes the smartest dog Ive ever had,
PETER GOULD
In 36 holes, we made 10 or 11 double bogeys, and that's way too many. Most of them were in the after...
DOUG GORDIN
Rainbows always stand for hope. -Iris
RICK RIORDAN
We were a little disappointed with our round three because that has always been our strong round. We...
KRISTI LAFLEUR
For far too long we have been seduced into walking a path that did not lead us to ourselves. For far...
TERRY TEMPEST WILLIAMS
Not really, I've been here too long.
MARCEL SHIPP
For far too long, the female gender has been plagued with stereotypes, typecasting, as well as, subt...
ASA DON BROWN
If the vibrant and frolicking merry-go-round of our daily living has been ousted by an eerie void of...
ERIK PEVERNAGIE
I've been in New Jersey for a long time, a lot of memories, and to make a decision like this is diff...
ROB NIEDERMAYER
The memories I had with you will never be forgotten, as long as I am alive.
BASIL TONG (湯鈞庭 ベーゼル)
Like anybody, I would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place. But Im not concerned about ...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
My parents have long been gone, but it brings back very fond memories of coming home after school, a...
LEE MALONEY
It's the memories we'll be walking for. Just because the water's gone, doesn't mean the problem is g...
HANS PRELL
But it was too round,
LUCY MCFADDEN
Everything passes by, and we are left with just our memories
BEN OAK
Our goal is to get to the quarterfinals. As long as we do that, it's been a successful round robin.
RICK DIPIETRO
Find your way early, on the road of life. For the way is too long to be struggling, and far too shor...
ANTHONY LICCIONE
Shes become the heart and soul of the team. Shes the true center half weve been missing the five yea...
EVA LANG
Maybe mistakes are what make our fate... without them what would shape our lives? Maybe if we had ne...
CANDACE BUSHNELL
That's too many. We've got a long way to go.
MARC SUYEMATSU
His nostrils flared just a little bit, and the lines bracketing his mouth grew deeper. He snarled wi...
ELIZABETH HOYT
Her gaze dropped to the right side of his mouth, to the corner of his lip that was permanently pulle...
ELIZABETH HOYT
All my life Ive known better than to depend on the experts. How could I have been so stupid, to let ...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
Round, round, while thus we go round, The best thing a man can do, Is to make it at least, a m...
MICHAEL EYQUEN DE MONTAIGNE
Too much mystery is merely an annoyance. Too much adventure is exhausting. And a little terror goes ...
DEAN KOONTZ
I chalk up the fact that I got diabetes to my body saying, 'Dude, you have been doing wrong for ...
RANDY JACKSON
Thinking in words slows you down and actually decreases comprehension in much the same way as walkin...
LENORE FLEISCHER
For several long moments we remained locked together, and I think I covered her hair with small sacr...
ANNE RICE
My dad was always busy. You would pop round for a cup of tea, and within minutes you would see him w...
RACHEL JOYCE
I was a sort of son to Ike, and it was the other way round with Kennedy.
HAROLD MACMILLAN
Scots have long memories, and they're not the most forgiving of people.
DIANA GABALDON
None of our seniors have ever lost a first-round game, but I've been around long enough to have lost...
BOBBY BROCKMAN
There's a way,
a way way too long but reachable,
not for everyone a way but possible... ...
ROSSANA CONDOLEO
The worldly life just goes round and round; there is no end to it. If you want to bring an end to it...
DADA BHAGWAN

More Iris Dement

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
Some guy refuses to fight and we call that the sin, but he's standing up for what he believes in and...
IRIS DEMENT
Dreaming permits each and everyone of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.
WILLIAM DEMENT
And trying to get to sleep earlier to avoid the morning "zombie effect" is pointless, he said: "Th...
WM. DEMENT
Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.
WILLIAM DEMENT
Dreams permit each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.
WILLIAM DEMENT
We're beginning to realize that drowsiness or sleep deprivation, fatigue, is beginning to outstrip a...
WILLIAM DEMENT
Dreaming permits each and everyone of us to be quietly insane every night of out lives.
WILLIAM DEMENT
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
Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.
CHARLES WILLIAM DEMENT
Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.
WILLIAM C. DEMENT
Great personal style is an extreme curiosity about yourself.
IRIS 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
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
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
Anything that's feathery-looking, I love.
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
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
You can change the look of an outfit so easily by changing the kind of jewellery you wear. If you ha...
IRIS APFEL
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
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
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
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
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
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
There are now hundreds of thousands of new engineers that are being trained in China. If people star...
IRIS CHANG
I live in the Dark Ages, the 17th century. Actually, I would have loved to be in Paris in the early ...
IRIS APFEL
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
My mother was a big influence; she was exceedingly chic, completely dressed in a completely differen...
IRIS APFEL
The poppy opes her scarlet purse of dreams.
SCHARMEL IRIS
I mix everything up. A museum curator once said to me that there is a great jazz component to the wa...
IRIS APFEL
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
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
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
I call myself a geriatric starlet.
IRIS APFEL
The Committee of 100 commissioned a survey in which they found that Asian-American candidates are th...
IRIS CHANG
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
¿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 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
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
Creativity is down the tube. And people give a lot of lip service to individuality. I know they all ...
IRIS APFEL
There was something factitious and brittle and thereby utterly feminine about her charm which made m...
IRIS MURDOCH
Fashion has this youth mania. But 70-year-old ladies don't have 18-year-old bodies, and 18-year-...
IRIS APFEL
The lights are all out everywhere.
IRIS CHENAULT
I love high-end designers, but a head-to-toe designer look for me is extremely boring. I've alwa...
IRIS APFEL
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
Throughout history, clothes represented who you were; they are a great vehicle for explaining who yo...
IRIS APFEL
I see myself as Rhoda, not Mary Tyler Moore.
IRIS MURDOCH
The fashion industry has done itself in by neglecting the 60- to 80-year-old market. They have the t...
IRIS APFEL
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
There was Pauline de Rothschild, who I thought was very fabulous, and Millicent Rogers, the Standard...
IRIS APFEL
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
We did major work at the White House. But what people often don't understand is that when you do...
IRIS APFEL
Men all across China are going to have trouble finding wives in just a few years.
IRIS CHANG
I think some people like me because I'm different. I don't think like everybody else. People...
IRIS APFEL
Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.
IRIS MURDOCH
I go out in New York, and I think, boy, you can look at someone and pretty much determine their zip ...
IRIS APFEL
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
I absolutely consider fashion a form of art. Of course, there is some fashion that is not art at all...
IRIS APFEL
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
I think people have to sharpen their eyes and look. I always feel like a big sponge: I feel like I l...
IRIS APFEL
...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
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
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