Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jerry Weintraub

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 tower. So I like people; I enjoy people.

Fran Lebowitz

I am alternately very gregarious - very sociable - and then very solitary.

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.

Breyten Breytenbach

Even ivory towers need central heating.

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.

Anthony Hopkins

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.

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'.

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.

Jeff Adrien

That was the first thing I said when I got back in the locker room, I can't wait until Monday. It's a big game, national TV.

Tom McMahon

We're still trying to lock down how to reward the winner.

Joe Girardi

Miguel seems to be right where he always is -- locked in.

Greg Albrecht

You just have to have a threat there to worry markets and they (buyers) want to lock in prices.

Tracey Tipton

Like I told them in the locker room, in my mind they are the No. 1 team in the country.

Ruth Gordon

. L-I-V-E. LIVE! Otherwise, you got nothing to talk about in the locker room.

Ken Dulaney

Unfortunately, the only way to really secure a PDA is the lock it into a vault.

Kevin Rogers

Nobody in (our) locker room condones that. Nobody does.

Russell Robinson

I don't think we're underdogs. I don't think any of the people in the locker room think we're underdogs.