Ivory Tower Quotes
Ivory Tower Quote of the day
I don't want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward.
When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter.
Smooth shapes are very rare in the wild but extremely important in the ivory tower and the factory.
We look down on our scientists if they engage in outside consultation. We implicitly promote the ivory tower.
It's about communication, no matter how impossibly hard your art is to understand and how much of an ivory tower or high horse you get on, it's still basically communication or why are you doing it?
The ivory tower of the artist may be the only stronghold left for human values, cultural treasures, man’s cult of beauty.
Many live in the ivory tower called reality; they never venture on the open sea of thought.
I hope I'm not giving the impression of an ivory tower science, but for me science is an attempt to understand, it's an attempt to understand the universe.
The only refuge left to us was the poet's ivory tower, which we climbed, ever higher, to isolate ourselves from the mob.
As much as we sometimes roll our eyes at the ivory-tower isolation of universities, they continue to serve as remarkable engines of innovation.
The commonest ivory tower is that of the average man, the state of passivity towards experience.
Strategy should evolve out of the mud of the marketplace, not in the antiseptic environment of an ivory tower.
Language evolves and moves on. It is an organic thing. It is not stuck in an ivory tower, hung with expensive works of art.
Chefs who cook in these ivory towers are in control in their own world. We try to approximate that world as best we can, but ultimately our goal is to please our clients.
I know everybody. 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.
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.
I think the obligation of a poet is not to be in an ivory tower; it is not to be isolated but to be among people.
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.
Maybe what I admired most about John Steinbeck is that he never mortgaged his 45-acre heart for a suite in an ivory tower.
Jan built herself an ivory tower to keep the wolves out; she never dreamed they were already inside.
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?
