I don't want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward. — Billie Joe Armstrong Copy Share Image
“staying safely in the ivory tower is much more comfortable for academics,” — Jean Tirole Copy Share Image
The commonest ivory tower is that of the average man, the state of passivity towards experience. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
For me or a Bruce Springsteen to sit up in our ivory towers and make comments about racism, well, were not really… — John Mellencamp Copy Share Image
“I’m merely exploring souls & cities From the vantage point Of my ivory tower built, Built with the assistance of Opium That’s… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Many live in the ivory tower called reality; they never venture on the open sea of thought. — Francois Gautier Copy Share Image
As much as we sometimes roll our eyes at the ivory-tower isolation of universities, they continue to serve as remarkable engines of… — Steven Johnson Copy Share Image
Socrates was a great walker. They say he was a fiend for exercise. He was absolutely not shut away in some ivory… — Bettany Hughes Copy Share Image
It's a fallacy that writers have to shut themselves up in their ivory towers to write. I have all these interruptions, three… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I don't want to become an ivory tower filmmaker. That sounds peculiar, but I want to be a mainstream filmmaker. I want… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
Scientists are supposed to live in ivory towers. Their darkrooms and their vibration-proof benches are supposed to isolate their activities from the… — Simon LeVay Copy Share Image
Programs, systems and methods sit well in the ivory towers of monasteries or in the wooden arms of icons. Head knowledge comes… — Joni Eareckson Tada Copy Share Image
“The Subarctic Survival Situation may sound like a harmless game played inside the ivory tower, but if you think of meetings you’ve… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
Because I've experienced some very different environments, I've worked and lived alongside real people. I haven't been stuck in an ivory tower… — Heidi Allen Copy Share Image
Friedmans influence reaches far beyond the academic community and the world of economics. Rather than lock himself in an ivory tower, he… — William E. Simon Copy Share Image
Authentic thinking, thinking that is concerned about reality, does not take place in ivory tower isolation, but only in communication. If it… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
“What never fails inside the mind of an intellectual never works outside the confines of his head. The world’s stubborn refusal to… — Daniel J. Flynn Copy Share Image
“What I mean is something like a closed circuit. Everybody on the same frequency. And after a while you forget about the… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
I think public intellectuals have a responsibility - to be self-critical on the one hand, to do serious, nuanced work rigorously executed;… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
I don't ascribe to the idea of the ivory tower composer who sits alone in a room composing his masterpieces and then… — John Zorn Copy Share Image
It used to be that readers were relegated because they considered themselves far above society, and so the metaphor of the ivory… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
Great question in science - questions like the ones Herschel raised about the structure of the universe - are seldom answered by… — James Trefil Copy Share Image
“The purpose behind discerning the nature of love is not to satisfy ivory tower discussions or to produce fodder for academic delectation.… — Thomas Lewis Copy Share Image
I'm not a believer in putting designers off in an ivory tower. They need to have a voice at the table so… — Chuck Jones Copy Share Image
“One and a half million Jewish men and women and children: How was anyone to understand a number like that? Andras knew… — Julie Orringer Copy Share Image
That's a big part of being a designer now: going out, having dinners, meeting people. Being in an ivory tower, you can… — Joseph Altuzarra Copy Share Image
Maybe what I admired most about John Steinbeck is that he never mortgaged his 45-acre heart for a suite in an ivory… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“I hate that phrase "the real world." Why is an aircraft factory more real than a university? Is it?” — Richard Hugo Copy Share Image
Jan built herself an ivory tower to keep the wolves out; she never dreamed they were already inside. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Language evolves and moves on. It is an organic thing. It is not stuck in an ivory tower, hung with expensive works… — E. L. James Copy Share Image
“Do not take “ivory tower” style to manage innovation, and do not treat your innovation champion as the troublemaker as well.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
Chefs who cook in these ivory towers are in control in their own world. We try to approximate that world as best… — David Castle Copy Share Image
“Language evolves and moves on. It is an organic thing. It is not stuck in an ivory tower, hung with expensive works… — E L James Copy Share Image
The artist's life is to be where life is, active life, found in neither ivory tower nor concrete shelter; he must be… — Sean O'Casey Copy Share Image
“Never have things of the spirit counted for so little. Never has hatred for everything great been so manifest – disdain for… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
If you shut yourself up disdainfully in your ivory tower and insist that you have your own conscience and are satisfied with… — Luigi Pirandello Copy Share Image
Human history has become too much a matter of dogma taught by 'professionals' in ivory towers as though it's all fact. Actually,… — Graham Hancock Copy Share Image
Determining the value of individual texts has been an ideological scuffle in literary criticism for centuries: but the environmental cost of printing… — Tristram Stuart Copy Share Image
There's an interesting book about that called The Third Reich and the Ivory Tower, written by Stephen H. Norwood. It has a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The library is not, as some would have it, a place for the retiring of disposition or faint of heart. It is… — Eric Burns Copy Share Image
