Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joseph Altuzarra

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.

Luigi Pirandello

If you shut yourself up disdainfully in your ivory tower and insist that you have your own conscience and are satisfied with its approval, it is because you know that everybody is criticizing you, condemning you, or laughing at you.

Terry Eagleton

Ivory towers are as rare as bowling alleys in tribal cultures.

Peter Greenaway

I don't want to become an ivory tower filmmaker. That sounds peculiar, but I want to be a mainstream filmmaker. I want the largest possible audience that I can find - but, of course, on my terms.

Logan Pearsall Smith

When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter.

John Mellencamp

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?

Al Ries

Strategy should evolve out of the mud of the marketplace, not in the antiseptic environment of an ivory tower.

Benoit Mandelbrot

Smooth shapes are very rare in the wild but extremely important in the ivory tower and the factory

Billie Joe Armstrong

I don't want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward.

Michael Hofmann

Rocks and gravel will come down sometimes. But this is the first time there's ever been a mud event.

Joseph Brodsky

I don't want to dive into that mud slide, which is what I consider the literary process.

Scott Neal

A lot of our new players struggled because of the conditions. They?re not used to playing in wet and muddy conditions, so it took them a little time to adjust.

Trent Green

It was really bad. Especially in the second half, every snap there was pretty much mud caked all over the ball.

Dennis Miller

When you're sharing a mud hole with a wildebeest derriere in sub-Saharan Africa, that's a living hell.

Chris Rodgers

Roll up the windows. Or the mud will spray you.

Dick DeGuerin

This is a rabbit trail (Earle) is going down. There is nothing there, but he is trying to do what he can to muddy the waters.

Brian Clough

I like my women to be feminine, not sliding into tackles and covered in mud.

Edwina Currie

There's no smoke without mud being flung around.

Marco Rubio

Just like Trump Tower, he [Donald Trump] must have hired a foreign worker to do his own tweets.

Al-Waleed bin Talal

My own center, my Kingdom Center, which is the highest priced tower in Saudi Arabia, was vacated twice because of terrorist attacks, terrorist threats.

Anthony Trollope

Barchester Towers has become one of those novels which do not die quite at once, which live and are read for perhaps a quarter of a century.

Clive James

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

Thomas Gray

Ye towers of Julius, London's lasting shame, With many a foul and midnight murder fed.

Stephen King

I hold to no God," Roland said. "I hold to the Tower, and won't pray to that.

Philippe Petit

Right after my Twin Towers walk, I was approached by hundreds of people, and I said no to all the offers. I could have become a millionaire overnight, obviously, but I said no, and I continue to be uninterested.

Harry Seidler

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

J. R. R. Tolkien

And sometimes you didn't want to know the end… because how could the end be happy?