Iris Murdoch Quotes
No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.Iris Murdoch
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I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.
Fran Lebowitz -
Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.
Quentin Crisp -
I can't get my knickers in a twist about my age and ageing in an industry that caters to the ids of 14-year-olds.
Vera Farmiga -
I think that a lot of people would perceive my style as being intimidating. And although I don't want to intimidate kids, I am very demanding.
Pat Summitt -
Excuse my voice - I don't have the thundering voice I used to have to get players going on the ice anymore.
Pat Burns -
History must share with reading, writing and arithmetic first rank as the most important subjects in the curriculum. Understanding the issues on which citizens of a republic are expected to vote is impossible without an understanding of the past.
Walter Cronkite
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There are at least two retrospectives of my work each year in some country.
Abbas Kiarostami -
A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal.
Daniel Berrigan -
Living in New York, for me at least, just keeps it very real and keeps my feet firmly planted on the ground.
Tamara Tunie -
I remain fascinated by where you go as a woman once you are a mother, and if you ever come back.
Rachel Cusk -
Prior to the United Nations even being formed, Palestine was a country. But the right of the Palestinian people were trampled, and unfortunately, international organizations contributed to those rights being trampled.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad -
I try to live holistically and avoid conventional medicine.
Pamela Sue Martin
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I started riding the whole 'fluffy' train, and it's a cute word and socially a lot more acceptable than someone saying is fat or obese. If you call a girl 'fat,' yo, she'll raise hell, but if you say, 'Aw girl, look at you, you're fluffy,' there's almost a sexy appeal to it.
Gabriel Iglesias -
The reality of music itself, which is the fabric of life for me, is where most of my attention is.
Pat Metheny -
There's no such thing as a non-final cut director.
Abel Ferrara -
I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.
Wendell Berry -
I think I may have failed at a lot of things, but the one thing I can say, and that I'm proud of, is that I am a good parent.
Naveen Andrews -
The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.
Mae Jemison
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When I was 13 my dream was to play the U.S. Open. Now it's to win it.
Yani Tseng -
The measure of capacity is the measure of sphere to either man or woman.
Elizabeth Oakes Smith -
It is very difficult for us to know we love somebody because it is an insecure position to be in. But in the end, it is important to be honest about your love because life is not that long.
Yoko Ono -
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 -
No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.
Iris Murdoch