Ivory Quotes

115 Ivory quotes by 107 unique authors

Smooth shapes are very rare in the wild but extremely important in the ivory tower and the factory — Benoit Mandelbrot
I looked upon a clock to find the truth. The hours were passing like ivory chess figures, striking piano notes, and the minutes raced on… — Anais Nin
Contact with [menstrual blood] turns new wine sour, crops touched by it become barren, grafts die, seed in gardens are dried up, the fruit of… — Pliny the Elder
I don't want to become an ivory tower filmmaker. That sounds peculiar, but I want to be a mainstream filmmaker. I want the largest possible… — Peter Greenaway
Only recently serious research into the relationship between photography and art has taken place. Why has it been so long in coming ? In some… — Aaron Scharf
Strategy should evolve out of the mud of the marketplace, not in the antiseptic environment of an ivory tower. — Al Ries
Please don't let the illegal ivory trade orphan even more baby elephants. — Yao Ming
Programs, systems and methods sit well in the ivory towers of monasteries or in the wooden arms of icons. Head knowledge comes from the pages… — Joni Eareckson Tada
Quinquireme of Nineveh from distant Ophir, Rowing home to haven in sunny Palestine, With a cargo of ivory, And apes and peacocks, Sandalwood, cedarwood, and… — John Masefield
A good part of why I never went back to England was part of that, I didn't want to be in those sort of flowery… — Tim Roth
Elephants are living treasures. Nature's gardeners. Nature's great teachers. Tragically some people don't give a damn. They prefer the dead treasure to the living one.… — Virginia McKenna
Our dreams are a second life. I have never been able to penetrate without a shudder those ivory or horned gates which separate us from… — Gerard De Nerval
Now, after these things were done, the Pharaoh and his Queen drove through the hosts of Egypt in their golden chariot, and received the homage… — H. Rider Haggard
She was white, perhaps too white. Her eyes, which were almost always cast down, when she raised them testified to the purest of souls, and… — Jose Rizal
It's hard to get ivory in Africa, but in Alabama the Tuscaloosa — Groucho Marx
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
The little bit (two inches wide) of ivory on which I work with so fine a brush as produces little effect after much labour. — Jane Austen
If we buy ivory it makes all of us killers as well, — Yao Ming
If Mother had to be told not to shove the entire brick of Ivory up Junior's hindquarters, constipation is the least of his problems. — James Lileks
Friedmans influence reaches far beyond the academic community and the world of economics. Rather than lock himself in an ivory tower, he has joined the… — William E. Simon
Policies that emanate from ivory towers often have an adverse impact on the people out in the field who are fighting the wars or bringing… — Colin Powell
[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… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
In the worship of Bacchus, we have sacrificed too freely.... Why not consecrate ourselves to the queen of the Camelias, and revel in the warm… — Okakura Kakuzo
I am a simple man and I use simple materials: Ivory Black, Vermilion, Prussian Blue, Yellow Ochre, Flake White and no medium. That’s all I’ve… — L. S. Lowry
It used to be that readers were relegated because they considered themselves far above society, and so the metaphor of the ivory tower developed. Now… — Alberto Manguel

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