230 Quotes by Iris Apfel

Shock can kill you. Shock is terrible. But what you've got to do is live in the present, which is what I have always done.

I'm a color person, I've never been known to play it safe. Plus I like big bags. My eyeglasses are so big; they don't fit into smaller bags.

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

People would always say to me, "Why are you wearing such large frames?" And I would say, "The bigger to see you."

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

Being attractive lasts longer than being pretty.

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.

You can be born with the talent to be an opera star, but you've got to work and practice it.

Style is attitude, attitude, attitude!