There is nothing but water in the holy pools. I know, I have been swimming there. All the gods sculpted of wood… — Kabir 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
Listen: there was once a king sitting on his throne. Around Him stood great and wonderfully beautiful columns ornamented with ivory, bearing… — Hildegard of Bingen 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
You've got to shake your fists at lightning now, you've got to roar like forest fire You've got to spread your light… — Joni Mitchell 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
Our problem with limited resources is not primarily overpopulation; it is greed. Our problem with pollution is not the invention of fluorocarbons… — Winkie Pratney Copy Share Image
Ruin, weariness, death, perpetually death, stand grimly to confront the other presence of Elizabethan drama which is life: life compact of frigates,… — Virginia Woolf 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
We look down on our scientists if they engage in outside consultation. We implicitly promote the ivory tower. — Vikram Sarabhai 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
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
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
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
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 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
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
I am a simple man and I use simple materials: Ivory Black, Vermilion, Prussian Blue, Yellow Ochre, Flake White and no medium.… — L. S. Lowry Copy Share Image
They say he's an intelligent man, right? Speaks five languages! I've got a 15-year-old boy from the Ivory Coast who speaks five… — Alex Ferguson 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
The basic material of photographs is not intrinsically beautiful. It's not like ivory or tapestry or bronze or oil on canvas. You're… — John Szarkowski 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
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
Let the fairy tale begin on a winter's morning, then, with one drop of blood newly-fallen on the ivory snow: a drop… — Ellen Kushner Copy Share Image
Out in Hollywood, where the streets are paved with Goldwyn, the word "sophisticate" means, very simply, "obscene." A sophisticatedstory is a dirty… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
She stood by the tea-table in a light-coloured muslin gown, which had a good deal of pink about it. She looked as… — Elizabeth Gaskell 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
In the worship of Bacchus, we have sacrificed too freely… Why not consecrate ourselves to the queen of the Camelias, and revel… — Okakura Kakuzo Copy Share Image
I had never before thought of how awful the relationship must be between the musician and his instrument. He has to fill… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Curse him for being all tight muscle, with ivory skin and a mouth as soft as rose petals. Curse him for having… — Tamora Pierce Copy Share Image
Now, after these things were done, the Pharaoh and his Queen drove through the hosts of Egypt in their golden chariot, and… — H. Rider Haggard 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
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
I stalk certain words... I catch them in mid-flight, as they buzz past, I trap them, clean them, peel them, I set… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
In my craft or sullen art Exercised in the still night When only the moon rages And the lovers lie abed With… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
