I'd much rather be in the world than in some ivory tower somewhere. — Andrew Garfield Copy Share Image
“Do not take “ivory tower” style to manage innovation, and do not treat your innovation champion as the troublemaker as well.” — Pearl Zhu 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
Jan built herself an ivory tower to keep the wolves out; she never dreamed they were already inside. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
That's a big part of being a designer now: going out, having dinners, meeting people. Being in an ivory tower, you can… — Joseph Altuzarra Copy Share Image
“I hate that phrase "the real world." Why is an aircraft factory more real than a university? Is it?” — Richard Hugo Copy Share Image
Maybe what I admired most about John Steinbeck is that he never mortgaged his 45-acre heart for a suite in an ivory… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“I’m merely exploring souls & cities From the vantage point Of my ivory tower built, Built with the assistance of Opium That’s… — Jack Kerouac 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
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
If you shut yourself up disdainfully in your ivory tower and insist that you have your own conscience and are satisfied with… — Luigi Pirandello Copy Share Image
“Never have things of the spirit counted for so little. Never has hatred for everything great been so manifest – disdain for… — Gustave Flaubert 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
“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
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
Friedmans influence reaches far beyond the academic community and the world of economics. Rather than lock himself in an ivory tower, he… — William E. Simon 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
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
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
The library is not, as some would have it, a place for the retiring of disposition or faint of heart. It is… — Eric Burns 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
I'm not a believer in putting designers off in an ivory tower. They need to have a voice at the table so… — Chuck Jones Copy Share Image
“The purpose behind discerning the nature of love is not to satisfy ivory tower discussions or to produce fodder for academic delectation.… — Thomas Lewis Copy Share Image
Great question in science - questions like the ones Herschel raised about the structure of the universe - are seldom answered by… — James Trefil Copy Share Image
“...if I do not take my intellectual vocation seriously, putting it before everything else even at the risk of appearing inhuman, then… — Raimundo Panikkar Copy Share Image
“One and a half million Jewish men and women and children: How was anyone to understand a number like that? Andras knew… — Julie Orringer 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
“Extreme religious and quasi-religious beliefs and practices, Christian and New Age and otherwise, didn’t subside but grew and thrived—and came to seem… — Kurt Andersen Copy Share Image
“Many are the scholars who make it their professional occupation to occupy themselves in this towering edifice of culture, exploring its nook… — Nicholas Wolterstorff Copy Share Image
“But from the Parthenon and the Timaeus a specious logic leads to the tyranny which, in the Republic, is held up as… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“You can't go back home to your family, back home to your childhood, back home to romantic love, back home to a… — Thomas Wolfe 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
Many live in the ivory tower called reality; they never venture on the open sea of thought. — Francois Gautier Copy Share Image
