Standing to America, bringing home black gold, black ivory, black seed. — Robert Hayden Copy Share Image
I'd much rather be in the world than in some ivory tower somewhere. — Andrew Garfield Copy Share Image
I remember watching the mascara tears flood the ivories and I thought, "It's OK to be sad." I've been trained to love… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
Lisa Lampanelli lost 100 pounds, but that's because she was poached for ivory. — Reno Collier Copy Share Image
Do you have a brother or cousin in Ivory Coast, because I don't have the money to bring you to Porto. — Jose Mourinho 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
The commonest ivory tower is that of the average man, the state of passivity towards experience. — W. H. Auden 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 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
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
On turf and curb and bower-roof The snow-storm spreads its ivory woof; It paves with pearl the garden-walk; And lovingly around the… — John Townsend Trowbridge Copy Share Image
Having a stadium in France named after a footballer from the Ivory Coast, even if I'm proud of my France-Ivory Coast background,… — Didier Drogba Copy Share Image
Near that a dusty paint-box, some odd hooks, A half-burnt match, an ivory block, three books, Where conic sections, spherics, logarithms, To… — Percy Bysshe Shelley 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
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
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
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
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
Anything approaching the change that came over his features I have never seen before, and hope never to see again. Oh, I… — Joseph Conrad 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
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
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 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
If the only people we seek to impress are within our own ivory towers of artistic excellence or our hallowed institutions, we… — Charity Sunshine Tillemann-Dick 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 don't want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward. — Billie Joe Armstrong 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
We have fallen in the dreams the ever-living Breathe on the tarnished mirror of the world, And then smooth out with ivory… — Anonymous 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
White. Like a clean piece of paper, like uncarved ivory, all is white when the story begins. — Daniel Mason Copy Share Image
The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history. — Oscar Wilde 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
