Ivory tower Quote by E L James

Language evolves and moves on. It is an organic thing. It is not stuck in an ivory tower, hung with expensive works of art.

— E. L. James

“I've always thought academics should get a little slurry on their boots from time to time.”

— Karen Lord

Maybe what I admired most about John Steinbeck is that he never mortgaged his 45-acre heart for a suite in an ivory tower.

— Tom Robbins

For me or a Bruce Springsteen to sit up in our ivory towers and make comments about racism, well, were not really in it,…

— John Mellencamp

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…

— John Zorn

Great question in science - questions like the ones Herschel raised about the structure of the universe - are seldom answered by ivory-tower types…

— James Trefil

If you shut yourself up disdainfully in your ivory tower and insist that you have your own conscience and are satisfied with its approval,…

— Luigi Pirandello

I make friends easily. I'm a gregarious guy, I'm open, I'm easy to get to know - I don't lock myself in an ivory…

— Jerry Weintraub

“What I mean is something like a closed circuit. Everybody on the same frequency. And after a while you forget about the rest of…

— Thomas Pynchon

I am an idealist. I often feel I would like to be an artist in an ivory tower. Yet it is imperative that I…

— W. Eugene Smith

“I'm reminded of a conversation I had with your father when you wanted to go to Arrida to ransom Erak. I told him, and…

— John Flanagan

The ivory tower of the artist may be the only stronghold left for human values, cultural treasures, man’s cult of beauty.

— Anais Nin