Top 711 Ivory Tower Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

We can let the east coast have their ivory towers. We can let the west coast have a generation of gender studies majors. We will take more jobs and higher pay!

Patton's personality was a complex one - he was obsessed with glory, but behind the ivory-hilted pistols, the egomania, the forbidding scowl, and the rows of ribbons, there was a much more ambiguous figure.

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 sweet white wine.

A bottomless pit of violence, a Tower of Babel where all are speakers and no hearers.

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 it makes me look 'more together.

There was a small wooden gazebo built out over the water; Isabelle was sitting in it, staring out across the lake. She looked like a princess in a fairy tale, waiting at the top of her tower for someone to ride up and rescue her. Not that traditional princess behavior was like Isabelle at all. Isabelle with her whip and boots and knives would chop anyone who tried to pen her up in a tower into pieces, build a bridge out of the remains, and walk carelessly to freedom, her hair looking fabulous the entire time.

Horses are creatures who worship the earth as they gallop on feet of ivory. Constrained by the wonder of dying and birth, the horses still run, they are free.

The higher the tower, the greater the fall thereof.

I know sometimes I can come off like a lonely spinster in a tower. That's not me at all.

I think the Merchant Ivory brand really means literate dialogue. I think it starts with that. When people say something, you know it has some sort of ripples to it.

Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows.

I'm the tower of power, too sweet to be sour.

I live on a big old Dutch barge by Tower Hill on the Thames.

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 you're going to do a day's work and at the end of it, it's going to be good.

Living in a tower, however secure it may feel, is hardly a social attribute.

Brave men are a city's strongest tower of defence.

Every time I look at the Eiffel Tower, it completely blows my mind.

I saw firsthand the devastating consequences of poaching. I saw elephants with ivory hacked from their faces and the lengths private parks go to protect their precious wildlife.

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 ever used in my paintings.

I've been to Mar-a-Lago. I'm not going to Trump Tower.

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 the invisible world.

The King is in his Tower, eating bread and honey. The Breakers in the basement, making all the money.

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.

The king's name is a tower of strength.

I was a sandwich artist at Subway and can still rattle off the order of toppings. I was fired because I got meatball sauce on the ivory cutting boards.

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.

The little bit (two inches wide) of ivory on which I work with so fine a brush as produces little effect after much labour.

You have to understand, I grew up in the shadow of the Safeco tower.

You got me stranded on the bungee tower of love.

Jack Aubrey is a tremendous tower of strength and you always want to read about him.

Ebony and ivory live together in perfect harmony, side by side on my keyboard piano, oh Lord, why don't we?

Piano playing is more difficult than statesmanship. It is harder to awake emotions in ivory keys than it is in human beings.

I like the Eiffel Tower in Las Vegas more than the actual one.

I will build you a castle with a tower so high it reaches the moon.

Age shakes Athena's tower, but spares gray Marathon.

What we do to animals directly impacts everything, because we are all connected. It disrupts the food chain, it funds terrorism (ivory), it changes our climate, our oceans, it starts wars.

Tower'd cities please us then, And the busy hum of men.

I've always thought Blues Point Tower is one of my best buildings and I stand by that.

Standing to America, bringing home black gold, black ivory, black seed.

That tower of strength Which stood four-square to all the winds that blew.

I remember having the opportunity to meet Ivory, as a kid, and she was the first woman's wrestler that I met. She looked at me and said, 'I'm going to see you in the ring one day, aren't I?'

Stand firm as the tower that never shakes its top whatever wind may blow.

Our elephants are under siege because of an illegal international market that has driven ivory prices in the region up significantly. I call upon the international community to join us in this fight.

It can be difficult for players who are perceived to have turned their backs on England, as Wilfried Zaha has found out after deciding to play for Ivory Coast.

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

I went on to being an Ivory Soap baby for television commercials, and for three years, I sat in a bathtub and said either, 'And it floats,' or 'Get some today.'

From a proud tower in the town, Death looks gigantically down.

What is conserved in the ground? Stone, bronze, ivory, bone, sometimes pottery. Never wood objects, no fabric or skins. That completely skews our notions about primitive man.

We have all seen these circus elephants complete with tusks, ivory in their head and thick skins, who move around the circus ring and grab the tail of the elephant ahead of them.

The Black Tower stands with the Lion of Andor." -Logain

Somewhere lives a bad Cajun cook, just as somewhere must live one last ivory-billed woodpecker. For me, I don't expect ever to encounter either one.

From the shaken tower A flock of bells take flight, And go with the hour.

The Trump World Tower was home growing up, and it's where my office is.

You live in a tower that soars to heaven and goes unpunished by God.

A piano is a machine, but you've got ivory and there's weight behind the keys and you have this really - you feel the resonance in the instrument, you feel the vibration in the pedal. I mean, these a still very crude.

Amid attempts to protect elephants from ivory poachers and dolphins from tuna nets, the rights of children go remarkably unremarked.

James Ivory comes close to the actors for the first rehearsal. He more or less lets you direct yourself and then will only correct you if he finds it incorrect.

I was a little concerned that a lot of people thought I wrote Merchant Ivory movies. I also thought if I was ever going to write something strange and difficult, that was the time.

And let me touch those curving claws of yellow ivory; and grasp the tail that like a monstrous asp coils round your heavy velvet paws.

We have been taught to regard a representative of the people as a sentinel on the watch-tower of liberty.