Ivory Tower Quotes
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Ivory Tower Quotes & Sayings
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I hate that phrase "the real world." Why is an aircraft factory more real than a university? Is it?
— Richard Hugo
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?
— John Mellencamp
Maybe what I admired most about John Steinbeck is that he never mortgaged his 45-acre heart for a suite in an ivory tower.
— Tom Robbins
I stood up for myself, reminding Lucas that I was his partner, not his punching bag.
— Brittainy C. Cherry
Let Wall Street have a nightmare and the whole country has to help them back to bed again.
— Will Rogers
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.
— Joseph Altuzarra
Jan built herself an ivory tower to keep the wolves out; she never dreamed they were already inside.
— Seanan McGuire
Who reflects too much will accomplish little.
— Friedrich Schiller
Ivory towers are as rare as bowling alleys in tribal cultures.
— Terry Eagleton
I don't want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.
— Caitlin Doughty
You have to fight unhappiness like a dragon with fire and breathe.
— Drew Barrymore
The only refuge left to us was the poet's ivory tower, which we climbed, ever higher, to isolate ourselves from the mob.
— Gerard De Nerval
As much as we sometimes roll our eyes at the ivory-tower isolation of universities, they continue to serve as remarkable engines of innovation.
— Steven Johnson
You'll make better art after a day at the office than you will after a lifetime in an ivory tower.
— Sara Benincasa
Better a broken heart than a hardened one.
— Dalia Mogahed
An ivory tower is a fine place as long as the door is open.
— Walter Darby Bannard
The commonest ivory tower is that of the average man, the state of passivity towards experience.
— W. H. Auden
It is a good thing to read books, and need not be a bad thing to write them, but in any case, it is a pious thing to collect them.
— Frederick Locker-Lampson
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across the footpath — Santosh Kalwar
We look down on our scientists if they engage in outside consultation. We implicitly promote the ivory tower.
— Vikram Sarabhai
Smooth shapes are very rare in the wild but extremely important in the ivory tower and the factory.
— Benoit Mandelbrot
I've always thought academics should get a little slurry on their boots from time to time.
— Karen Lord
I am that quiet place, the centre of the maelstrom...The dangerous abyss, where few dare to tread...
— Virginia Alison
Many live in the ivory tower called reality; they never venture on the open sea of thought.
— Francois Gautier
