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
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
Our elephants are under siege because of an illegal international market that has driven ivory prices in the region up significantly. I… — Ali Bongo Ondimba 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
Ivory's the kind of girl who gets drunk and immediately starts slurring. I have a lot of friends like that, and I… — Chelsea Handler 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
Quinquireme of Nineveh from distant Ophir, Rowing home to haven in sunny Palestine, With a cargo of ivory, And apes and peacocks,… — John Masefield Copy Share Image
“The word 'ivory' rang in the air, was whispered, was sighed. You would think they were praying to it. A taint of… — 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
Nature has laid out all her art in beautifying the face; she has touched it with vermilion, planted in it a double… — Joseph Addison 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
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
Before I made it big I worked as a dishwasher, washing dishes in this place called Dishwasher House where people could just… — William H. Macy 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
Off pitch, I keep things simple. I enjoy spending time with my family. I never forget my roots and regularly give back… — Yaya Toure Copy Share Image
[V]ariety of climate should always go with stability of abode… an Englishman’s house is not only his castle; it is his fairy… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I judge wisely...as if nothin ever surprise me, Loungin, between two pillars of ivory. I'm lively, my dome piece is like buildin… — Killah Priest Copy Share Image
More birds have adapted to a changing world than have failed. Very few have the narrow tolerance of the ivory-billed woodpecker or… — Roger Tory Peterson 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
A piano is a machine, but you've got ivory and there's weight behind the keys and you have this really - you… — Tod Machover 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
My price is five dollars for a miniature on ivory, and I have engaged three or four at that price. My price… — Samuel Morse 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
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
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
I have been thinking about the girl I met last night in the mirror: dark on the marble-ivory white: glossy black hair:… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
I was a little concerned that a lot of people thought I wrote Merchant Ivory movies. I also thought if I was… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
I am a huge fan of using social media to connect with people because I think there was this 'ivory tower' aspect… — Sarah Lacy 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
In my view, nobody is really effective in tackling those organized crime networks that are making connections from Africa to Asia to… — Allen Crawford Copy Share Image
“Little by little the head emerged, preserved by the sludge for about 2,500 years. There it was–the biggest ivory head ever found:… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Fondling,' she saith, 'since I have hemm'd thee here Within the circuit of this ivory pale, I'll be a park, and thou… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
She was white, perhaps too white. Her eyes, which were almost always cast down, when she raised them testified to the purest… — Jose Rizal Copy Share Image
I was pretty shocked to learn that as many as 30,000 elephants are being killed every year to fuel the ivory trade,… — Ian Somerhalder 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
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
I don't ascribe to the idea of the ivory tower composer who sits alone in a room composing his masterpieces and then… — John Zorn Copy Share Image
None of us ever escape the first few years of our lives. They make a mould into which we are cast, and… — Lizette Woodworth Reese Copy Share Image
Many nights he lay there dreaming awake of secret cafés in Mont Marte, where ivory women delved in romantic mysteries with diplomats… — F. Scott Fitzgerald 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
![“Off pitch, I keep things simple. I enjoy spending time with my family. I never forget my roots and regularly give back to children in West Africa. I support several youth associations, and I am also involved in the protection of the forest in my country [Ivory Coast]. When away from home, I mostly…” quote by Yaya Toure](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/21c/yaya-toure-19822_association_off-pitch-i-keep-things-simple-i-enjoy-s_2095351.jpg)
![“[V]ariety of climate should always go with stability of abode… an Englishman’s house is not only his castle; it is his fairy castle. Clouds and colours of every varied dawn and eve are perpetually touching and turning it from clay to gold, or from gold to ivory. There is a line of woodland beyond…” quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d99/gilbert-k-chesterton-223_abode_v-ariety-of-climate-should-always-go-wit_2384746.png)
