Ivory tower Quote by Karen Lord

“The academic in him might register that those shoes were hard on the woman’s spine”

— Nancy Warren

“Then they could discuss the possibilities of social inequity, the way your socks always fall down when you're wearing rubber boots, and the importance…

— Anonymous

“Oh, dear. She did have such a weakness for a pair of well-traveled boots.”

— Tessa Dare

“As a youth I got my jollies by confronting my professors with facts that ran completely contrary to what they were trying to ram…

— Lia Habel

“Funny when you're the only pair of boots in a sandals town.”

— Jeffrey Kosh

“We need boots on the ground, now.”

— Michael Devaney

“how foolish I was ever to have thought that professors were intellectual giants. They’re people—and afraid the rest of the world will find out.”

— Daniel Keyes

“what he’s really thinking is: why did I waste all those years in academia when I could have been doing great shit like this?”

— Neal Stephenson

“If he had not been a small degree civilized, he very probably would not have troubled himself with boots at all; but then, if…

— Herman Melville

“My father's boots went ahead. His boots were to me as unique and familiar, as much an index to himself, as his face was.…

— Alice Munro

“It reminded me that they [the students] were more than just their scholarly shortcomings and gripes about the workload. Each had a history, a…

— Wally Lamb

“The journey of a thousand miles requires excellent boots.”

— Mozella Ademiluyi