Famous Quotes & Sayings

Al Ries

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

C. S. Lewis

Your people eat dry and tasteless flesh but it is off plates as smooth as ivory and as round as the sun.

Benoit Mandelbrot

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

Breyten Breytenbach

Even ivory towers need central heating.

Billie Joe Armstrong

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

Brendan Barber

Britain's boardrooms are secure in a pensions ivory tower,

Alberto Manguel

It used to be that readers were relegated because they considered themselves far above society, and so the metaphor of the ivory tower developed. Now there's still this idea that the reader doesn't take part in the social game and in politics, the res publica, but for other reasons: he doesn't do it because he's not making any money.

Chuck Jones

I'm not a believer in putting designers off in an ivory tower. They need to have a voice at the table so they can identify where and why design can make a difference. We also need to understand the business issues. If we don't make our numbers this quarter, we don't earn the right to do something cool the next time.

Christopher Paolini

He tapped one of the ivory spikes between his legs and said, 'There be as good a way to lose your manhood as ever I've seen'.

Carl Andre

I didn't study the piano - the piano studied me.

Agnes Obel

Sometimes I feel like a melody doesn't have anything to do with me, but it's just something that comes, is accumulated from me playing on the piano, and then this little creature just appears.

Billy Taylor

Steinway is the finest piano ever made. Its tone is magnificent and its well-balanced action superb.

Buffy Sainte-Marie

I didn't know what I was gonna get the first time I sat down at a piano, but I loved it and it became my playmate for life.

Diana Krall

It is a privilege and an honor to perform on Steinway pianos.

Bill Gates

Lectures should go from being like the family singing around the piano to high-quality concerts.

Billy Joel

I have long admired Steinway pianos for their qualities of tone, clarity, pitch consistency, touch responsiveness, and superior craftsmanship.

Mark Smith

Unfortunately, I was hauling a piano on that one.

Caio Fonseca

I've been playing piano my whole life, but I'd never tried to understand how compositions are made, really. Try to imagine if you'd loved paintings your whole life but had never painted one. My aspiration now is just to understand.

Charles Dickens

Try to do unto others as you would have them do to you, and do not be discouraged if they fail sometimes. It is much better that they should fail than you should.

Charles Spurgeon

Dear friends, whenever you want to understand a text of Scripture, try to read the original

Charles Spurgeon

The great reason why we have so little good preaching is that we have so little piety. To be eloquent one must be in earnest; he must not only act as if he were in earnest, or try to be in earnest, but be in earnest.

Alan Watts

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

Alan Watts

But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us.

Alan Watts

Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.

Alan Parsons

That Beatle euphoria has always been there, and it's hard to be in a room with a Beatle and try to be totally natural. You never shake that off.

Alan Moore

I try to do things in comics that cannot be repeated by television, by movies, by interactive entertainment.

Alan Ball

I'm a huge freak, and always have been. I spent the first part of my life trying really desperately not to be one, and it was just a waste of time.