Ivory Quotes

115 Ivory quotes by 107 unique authors

Her life was a slow realization that the world was not for her and that for whatever reason she would never be happy and honest… — Jonathan Safran Foer
Many nights he lay there dreaming awake of secret cafés in Mont Marte, where ivory women delved in romantic mysteries with diplomats and soldiers of… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Anything approaching the change that came over his features I have never seen before, and hope never to see again. Oh, I wasn't touched. I… — Joseph Conrad
The great events of life often leave one unmoved; they pass out of consciousness, and, when thinks of them, become unreal. Even the scarlet flowers… — Oscar Wilde
I have been thinking about the girl I met last night in the mirror: dark on the marble-ivory white: glossy black hair: deep suspiring eyes… — Lawrence Durrell
Dreams surely are difficult, confusing, and not everything in them is brought to pass for mankind. For fleeting dreams have two gates: one is fashioned… — Homer
I remember watching the mascara tears flood the ivories and I thought, "It's OK to be sad." I've been trained to love my darkness. — Lady Gaga
Ivory's the kind of girl who gets drunk and immediately starts slurring. I have a lot of friends like that, and I think it's because… — Chelsea Handler
Jan built herself an ivory tower to keep the wolves out; she never dreamed they were already inside. — Mira Grant
In my craft or sullen art Exercised in the still night When only the moon rages And the lovers lie abed With all their griefs… — Dylan Thomas
Well, I can’t help going to see Sibyl play, even if it is only for an act. I get hungry for her presence; and when… — Oscar Wilde
Curse him for being all tight muscle, with ivory skin and a mouth as soft as rose petals. Curse him for having hair as fair… — Tamora Pierce
She wore an ivory-white dress and held the world in her eyes. I barely remember the priest's words or the faces of the guests, full… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Human history has become too much a matter of dogma taught by 'professionals' in ivory towers as though it's all fact. Actually, much of human… — Graham Hancock
We have fallen in the dreams the ever-living Breathe on the tarnished mirror of the world, And then smooth out with ivory hands and sigh. — William Butler Yeats
You've got to shake your fists at lightning now, you've got to roar like forest fire You've got to spread your light like blazes all… — Joni Mitchell
My skin has turned to porcelain, to ivory, to steel. — George R. R. Martin
Fondling,' she saith, 'since I have hemm'd thee here Within the circuit of this ivory pale, I'll be a park, and thou shalt be my… — William Shakespeare
Beneath the stars the lake lay dark and sombre," Stead wrote, "but on its shores gleamed and glowed in golden radiance the ivory city, beautiful… — Erik Larson
She stood by the tea-table in a light-coloured muslin gown, which had a good deal of pink about it. She looked as if she was… — Elizabeth Gaskell
I had never before thought of how awful the relationship must be between the musician and his instrument. He has to fill it, this instrument,… — James A. Baldwin
Let the fairy tale begin on a winter's morning, then, with one drop of blood newly-fallen on the ivory snow: a drop as bright as… — Ellen Kushner
I stalk certain words... I catch them in mid-flight, as they buzz past, I trap them, clean them, peel them, I set myself in front… — Pablo Neruda
To become a celebrity is to become a brand name. There is Ivory Soap, Rice Krispies, and Philip Roth. Ivory is the soap that floats;… — Philip Roth
If the only people we seek to impress are within our own ivory towers of artistic excellence or our hallowed institutions, we will find the… — Charity Sunshine Tillemann-Dick

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