Language evolves and moves on. It is an organic thing. It…

Language evolves and moves on. It is an organic thing. It is not stuck in an ivory tower, hung with expensive works of art.

— E. L. James

“I've always thought academics should get a little slurry on their boots from time to time.”

— Karen Lord

Maybe what I admired most about John Steinbeck is that he never mortgaged his 45-acre heart for a suite in an ivory tower.

— Tom Robbins

For me or a Bruce Springsteen to sit up in our ivory towers and make comments about racism, well, were not really in it,…

— John Mellencamp

I don't ascribe to the idea of the ivory tower composer who sits alone in a room composing his masterpieces and then comes down…

— John Zorn

Great question in science - questions like the ones Herschel raised about the structure of the universe - are seldom answered by ivory-tower types…

— James Trefil

If you shut yourself up disdainfully in your ivory tower and insist that you have your own conscience and are satisfied with its approval,…

— Luigi Pirandello

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 an ivory…

— Jerry Weintraub

“What I mean is something like a closed circuit. Everybody on the same frequency. And after a while you forget about the rest of…

— Thomas Pynchon

I am an idealist. I often feel I would like to be an artist in an ivory tower. Yet it is imperative that I…

— W. Eugene Smith

“I'm reminded of a conversation I had with your father when you wanted to go to Arrida to ransom Erak. I told him, and…

— John Flanagan

The ivory tower of the artist may be the only stronghold left for human values, cultural treasures, man’s cult of beauty.

— Anais Nin

As for mathematicians themselves: don't expect too much help. Most of them are too far removed in their ivory towers to take up such…

— Apostolos Doxiadis

The commonest ivory tower is that of the average man, the state of passivity towards experience.

— W. H. Auden

There's an interesting book about that called The Third Reich and the Ivory Tower, written by Stephen H. Norwood. It has a long discussion…

— Noam Chomsky