Ivory Quotes
115 quotes by 108 authors
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I don't want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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And let me touch those curving claws of yellow ivory; and grasp the tail that like a monstrous asp coils round your heavy velvet paws.
— Oscar Wilde
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The basic material of photographs is not intrinsically beautiful. It's not like ivory or tapestry or bronze or oil on canvas. You're not supposed to…
— John Szarkowski
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Earth Is Enough. We men of Earth have here the stuff Of Paradise - we have enough! We need no other stones to build The…
— Edwin Markham
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James Ivory comes close to the actors for the first rehearsal. He more or less lets you direct yourself and then will only correct you…
— Leslie Caron
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For me or a Bruce Springsteen to sit up in our ivory towers and make comments about racism, well, were not really in it, are…
— John Mellencamp
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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
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Even ivory towers need central heating.
— Breyten Breytenbach
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The word 'ivory' rang in the air, was whispered, was sighed. You would think they were praying to it. A taint of imbecile rapacity blew…
— Joseph Conrad
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I was a little concerned that a lot of people thought I wrote Merchant Ivory movies. I also thought if I was ever going to…
— Kazuo Ishiguro
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We have all seen these circus elephants complete with tusks, ivory in their head and thick skins, who move around the circus ring and grab…
— John F. Kennedy
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I'm not a believer in putting designers off in an ivory tower. They need to have a voice at the table so they can identify…
— Chuck Jones
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There is nothing but water in the holy pools. I know, I have been swimming there. All the gods sculpted of wood or ivory can’t…
— Kabir
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The ivory tower of the artist may be the only stronghold left for human values, cultural treasures, man’s cult of beauty.
— Anais Nin
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My price is five dollars for a miniature on ivory, and I have engaged three or four at that price. My price for profiles is…
— Samuel Morse
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Friend, many and many a dream is mere confusion a cobweb of no consequence at all. Two gates for ghostly dreams there are: One gateway…
— Homer
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I always challenge myself. I get out in deep water and I always try to get back. But I get hung up. The audience never…
— Earl Hines
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Many live in the ivory tower called reality; they never venture on the open sea of thought.
— Francois Gautier
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I am an idealist. I often feel I would like to be an artist in an ivory tower. Yet it is imperative that I speak…
— W. Eugene Smith
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Horses are creatures who worship the earth as they gallop on feet of ivory. Constrained by the wonder of dying and birth, the horses still…
— John Denver
Who Wrote These Ivory Quotes
108 authors contributed a total of 115 Ivory Quotes, led by these top contributors: