“I hate that phrase "the real world." Why is an aircraft factory more real than a university? Is it?” — Richard Hugo Copy Share Image
Can anyone picture God telling, taking, or enjoying a good joke? The idea is laughable. The Devil, on the other hand, laughs… — Diane LaVey Copy Share Image
“You see that bottle?” I told him I had wondered about it when we came into his office. “Well, how many people… — Daniel Keyes Copy Share Image
I'd much rather be in the world than in some ivory tower somewhere. — Andrew Garfield Copy Share Image
“He tipped the head of it toward his mouth and came in on cue with the emotionally charged lyrics to this Ivory… — Ann Lister Copy Share Image
Because I've experienced some very different environments, I've worked and lived alongside real people. I haven't been stuck in an ivory tower… — Heidi Allen Copy Share Image
Scientists are supposed to live in ivory towers. Their darkrooms and their vibration-proof benches are supposed to isolate their activities from the… — Simon LeVay 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
Determining the value of individual texts has been an ideological scuffle in literary criticism for centuries: but the environmental cost of printing… — Tristram Stuart Copy Share Image
“Why do scientists never debate philosophers? It’s because they know they would be destroyed in argument, when they have to actually clarify… — Joe Dixon Copy Share Image
Anything that promotes a kernel of science, even though it's exaggerated and hyped by Hollywood, I think is a step forward. We… — Michio Kaku 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
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
When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter. — Logan Pearsall Smith 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
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
Chefs who cook in these ivory towers are in control in their own world. We try to approximate that world as best… — David Castle Copy Share Image
I'm truly thankful that Life's blows knocked me off the Ivory Tower that so comfortably afforded me the luxury of looking down… — Anonymous 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
“What never fails inside the mind of an intellectual never works outside the confines of his head. The world’s stubborn refusal to… — Daniel J. Flynn 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
“staying safely in the ivory tower is much more comfortable for academics,” — Jean Tirole Copy Share Image
Programs, systems and methods sit well in the ivory towers of monasteries or in the wooden arms of icons. Head knowledge comes… — Joni Eareckson Tada Copy Share Image
“I like the idea of it. Just look at the world around you. Wars, terror, starvation, poverty, disease. Take the Middle East… — A.J. Kazinski Copy Share Image
