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
I don't want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward. — Billie Joe Armstrong Copy Share Image
I took the volume to a table, opened its soft, ivory pages... and fell into it as into a pool during dry… — Janet Fitch 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
He tapped one of the ivory spikes between his legs and said, 'There be as good a way to lose your manhood… — Christopher Paolini 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
The little bit (two inches wide) of ivory on which I work with so fine a brush as produces little effect after… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Ebony and ivory live together in perfect harmony, side by side on my keyboard piano, oh Lord, why don't we? — Paul McCartney 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
“If you could have walked on the planet before humans lived here, maybe the Ivory Coast would have seemed more beautiful than… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
Your anger was a climate I inhabited like a desert in a dry frigid weather of high thin air and ivory sun,… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
It's such a pleasant surprise when you come on set and you find someone in charge like Ken Branagh or James Ivory.… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
What brought the British to the Gambia in the first place - which was bigger than it is now - was trade… — Yahya Jammeh Copy Share Image
And let me touch those curving claws of yellow ivory; and grasp the tail that like a monstrous asp coils round your… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Beneath the stars the lake lay dark and sombre," Stead wrote, "but on its shores gleamed and glowed in golden radiance the… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
If Mother had to be told not to shove the entire brick of Ivory up Junior's hindquarters, constipation is the least of… — James Lileks 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
Friend, many and many a dream is mere confusion a cobweb of no consequence at all. Two gates for ghostly dreams there… — Homer 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
Well, I can’t help going to see Sibyl play, even if it is only for an act. I get hungry for her… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I wish I could sit back and say, 'Oh, I'm gonna wait for a Merchant-Ivory film to come my way. Or Ivory-Merchant.… — Zach Galifianakis Copy Share Image
Elephants are living treasures. Nature's gardeners. Nature's great teachers. Tragically some people don't give a damn. They prefer the dead treasure to… — Virginia McKenna Copy Share Image
I would give a lot to actually be able to glamour China into not wanting ivory. I can't even tell you how… — Kristin Bauer van Straten Copy Share Image
Some of us awake in the night with strange phantasms of enchanted hills and gardens, of fountains that sing in the sun,… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
I'd much rather be in the world than in some ivory tower somewhere. — Andrew Garfield 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
The more traditional bride still prefers white or ivory, but the young girls... seem to like the idea of using colors. — Reem Acra Copy Share Image
Please don't let the illegal ivory trade orphan even more baby elephants. — Yao Ming Copy Share Image
Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves Have… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
People need to make a stand and be clear that trading in ivory is immoral and unacceptable. — Yaya Toure Copy Share Image
“Your people eat dry and tasteless flesh but it is off plates as smooth as ivory and as round as the sun.” — Anonymous 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
White. Like a clean piece of paper, like uncarved ivory, all is white when the story begins. — Daniel Mason Copy Share Image
Piano playing is more difficult than statesmanship. It is harder to awake emotions in ivory keys than it is in human beings. — Ignacy Jan Paderewski 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 wash my face every night with Ivory soap, and I don't wear much makeup. — Brandy Norwood 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
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