I'd much rather be in the world than in some ivory tower somewhere. — Andrew Garfield Copy Share Image
The ivory tower of the artist may be the only stronghold left for human values, cultural treasures, man’s cult of beauty. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter. — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
“I've always thought academics should get a little slurry on their boots from time to time.” — Karen Lord Copy Share Image
“I have always tried to live in an ivory tower, but a tide of shit is beating at its walls, threatening to… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
We look down on our scientists if they engage in outside consultation. We implicitly promote the ivory tower. — Vikram Sarabhai Copy Share Image
Smooth shapes are very rare in the wild but extremely important in the ivory tower and the factory — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
I think the obligation of a poet is not to be in an ivory tower; it is not to be isolated but… — Maria Teresa Horta Copy Share Image
Strategy should evolve out of the mud of the marketplace, not in the antiseptic environment of an ivory tower. — Al Ries Copy Share Image
I make friends easily. I'm a gregarious guy, I'm open, I'm easy to get to know - I don't lock myself in… — Jerry Weintraub Copy Share Image
I hope I'm not giving the impression of an ivory tower science, but for me science is an attempt to understand, it's… — George Coyne Copy Share Image
“I'm reminded of a conversation I had with your father when you wanted to go to Arrida to ransom Erak. I told… — John Flanagan Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in pop culture. Some of my colleagues think of pop culture as beneath them, or there's the ivory… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Policies that emanate from ivory towers often have an adverse impact on the people out in the field who are fighting the… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
Anything that promotes a kernel of science, even though it's exaggerated and hyped by Hollywood, I think is a step forward. We… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
I know everybody. I make friends easily. I'm a gregarious guy, I'm open, I'm easy to get to know - I don't… — Jerry Weintraub Copy Share Image
It's about communication, no matter how impossibly hard your art is to understand and how much of an ivory tower or high… — Wayne White Copy Share Image
I see top business schools working to bridge this gap [between academic research and business application] by respecting executive education, by having… — Dave Ulrich Copy Share Image
As for mathematicians themselves: don't expect too much help. Most of them are too far removed in their ivory towers to take… — Apostolos Doxiadis Copy Share Image
I am an idealist. I often feel I would like to be an artist in an ivory tower. Yet it is imperative… — W. Eugene Smith Copy Share Image
Only recently serious research into the relationship between photography and art has taken place. Why has it been so long in coming… — Aaron Scharf Copy Share Image
Scholarship aimed at truly understanding what the biblical writers meant often does not filter down into the church and through the pulpit… — Michael S. Heiser Copy Share Image
“who wants to live in an ivory tower when there is fresh air to breathe anyway? I want to be outside with… — Sarah Bessey Copy Share Image
“He tipped the head of it toward his mouth and came in on cue with the emotionally charged lyrics to this Ivory… — Ann Lister Copy Share Image
Well, start waving and yelling, because it is the so-called Oxford comma and it is a lot more dangerous than its exclusive,… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
“I like the idea of it. Just look at the world around you. Wars, terror, starvation, poverty, disease. Take the Middle East… — A.J. Kazinski Copy Share Image
I'm truly thankful that Life's blows knocked me off the Ivory Tower that so comfortably afforded me the luxury of looking down… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You can't go back home to your family, back home to your childhood, back home to romantic love, back home to a… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share Image
“But from the Parthenon and the Timaeus a specious logic leads to the tyranny which, in the Republic, is held up as… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Many are the scholars who make it their professional occupation to occupy themselves in this towering edifice of culture, exploring its nook… — Nicholas Wolterstorff Copy Share Image
“Extreme religious and quasi-religious beliefs and practices, Christian and New Age and otherwise, didn’t subside but grew and thrived—and came to seem… — Kurt Andersen Copy Share Image
“Why do scientists never debate philosophers? It’s because they know they would be destroyed in argument, when they have to actually clarify… — Joe Dixon Copy Share Image
“...if I do not take my intellectual vocation seriously, putting it before everything else even at the risk of appearing inhuman, then… — Raimundo Panikkar Copy Share Image
The only refuge left to us was the poet's ivory tower, which we climbed, ever higher, to isolate ourselves from the mob. — Gerard De Nerval Copy Share Image
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