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
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
We have all seen these circus elephants complete with tusks, ivory in their head and thick skins, who move around the circus… — John F. Kennedy 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
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
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
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
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
People need to make a stand and be clear that trading in ivory is immoral and unacceptable. — Yaya Toure 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
I wash my face every night with Ivory soap, and I don't wear much makeup. — Brandy Norwood 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
Beige is atmosphere. It's bisque, it's ivory, it's cream, it's stone, it's toast, it's cappuccino. It;s well, it's magic. — Albert Hadley Copy Share Image
Our daily battles are to get traffickers behind bars, but the war for the fate of elephants is far away from the… — Ofir Drori Copy Share Image
Somewhere lives a bad Cajun cook, just as somewhere must live one last ivory-billed woodpecker. For me, I don't expect ever to… — William Least Heat-Moon Copy Share Image
Amid attempts to protect elephants from ivory poachers and dolphins from tuna nets, the rights of children go remarkably unremarked. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I always challenge myself. I get out in deep water and I always try to get back. But I get hung up.… — Earl Hines Copy Share Image
What is conserved in the ground? Stone, bronze, ivory, bone, sometimes pottery. Never wood objects, no fabric or skins. That completely skews… — Pablo Picasso 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
On the whole, the modern palette is the same as the one used by the artists of Pompeii... I mean it has… — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
America's liberal arts universities have long been safe zones for leftist thinking, protected ivory towers for the pseudo-elite who earn their livings… — Ben Shapiro Copy Share Image
Liberace was certainly master and commander of the ivories ~ he is the only pianist I can watch or listen to without… — Anonymous 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
Seized ivory stocks around Africa are recycled back into illegal trade due to corruption. Ivory stocks should be burnt together with the… — Ofir Drori Copy Share Image
Back when I was restoring art and antiques, finding ivory was very difficult because it's illegal, and the only difference between bone… — Dan Phillips Copy Share Image
James Ivory comes close to the actors for the first rehearsal. He more or less lets you direct yourself and then will… — Leslie Caron 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
She wore an ivory-white dress and held the world in her eyes. I barely remember the priest's words or the faces of… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
Dreams surely are difficult, confusing, and not everything in them is brought to pass for mankind. For fleeting dreams have two gates:… — Homer Copy Share Image
Her life was a slow realization that the world was not for her and that for whatever reason she would never be… — Jonathan Safran Foer 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
Earth Is Enough. We men of Earth have here the stuff Of Paradise - we have enough! We need no other stones… — Edwin Markham 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
The great events of life often leave one unmoved; they pass out of consciousness, and, when thinks of them, become unreal. Even… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The beautiful wooden board on a stand in my father's study. The gleaming ivory pieces. The stern king. The haughty queen. The… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image