Ivory Quotes

115 Ivory quotes by 107 unique authors

I wish I could sit back and say, 'Oh, I'm gonna wait for a Merchant-Ivory film to come my way. Or Ivory-Merchant. Whatever it's called.… — Zach Galifianakis
As much as we sometimes roll our eyes at the ivory-tower isolation of universities, they continue to serve as remarkable engines of innovation. — Steven Johnson
Ebony and ivory live together in perfect harmony, side by side on my keyboard piano, oh Lord, why don't we? — Paul McCartney
Watch it! It was robbed from other beings so it's HOT 'MERCHANDISE' and it's against the Law... the LAW OF DECENCY!!! Stay within this Law,… — Adela Popescu
Beauty is an evil in an ivory setting. — Theocritus
On the whole, the modern palette is the same as the one used by the artists of Pompeii... I mean it has not been enriched.… — Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Gambling houses are temples where the most sordid and turbulent passions contend; there no spectator can be indifferent. A card or a small square of… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
More birds have adapted to a changing world than have failed. Very few have the narrow tolerance of the ivory-billed woodpecker or the Bachman's warbler. — Roger Tory Peterson
An ivory tower is a fine place as long as the door is open. — Walter Darby Bannard
Some of us awake in the night with strange phantasms of enchanted hills and gardens, of fountains that sing in the sun, of golden cliffs… — H P Lovecraft
That's a big part of being a designer now: going out, having dinners, meeting people. Being in an ivory tower, you can feel very removed. — Joseph Altuzarra
Your anger was a climate I inhabited like a desert in a dry frigid weather of high thin air and ivory sun, sand dunes the… — Marge Piercy
I would give a lot to actually be able to glamour China into not wanting ivory. I can't even tell you how much I would… — Kristin Bauer van Straten
It's such a pleasant surprise when you come on set and you find someone in charge like Ken Branagh or James Ivory. You know that… — Anthony Hopkins
I wash my face every night with Ivory soap, and I don't wear much makeup. — Brandy Norwood
It's a fallacy that writers have to shut themselves up in their ivory towers to write. I have all these interruptions, three of which I… — Jodi Picoult
When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter. — Logan Pearsall Smith
I don't ascribe to the idea of the ivory tower composer who sits alone in a room composing his masterpieces and then comes down from… — John Zorn
I think public intellectuals have a responsibility - to be self-critical on the one hand, to do serious, nuanced work rigorously executed; but to also… — Michael Eric Dyson
The commonest ivory tower is that of the average man, the state of passivity towards experience. — Wystan Hugh Auden
The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history. — Oscar Wilde
Ruin, weariness, death, perpetually death, stand grimly to confront the other presence of Elizabethan drama which is life: life compact of frigates, fir trees and… — Virginia Woolf
I took the volume to a table, opened its soft, ivory pages... and fell into it as into a pool during dry season. — Janet Fitch
Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves Have made.- — Langston Hughes
He tapped one of the ivory spikes between his legs and said, 'There be as good a way to lose your manhood as ever I've… — Christopher Paolini

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