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Her fingers are still cool, like ivory on piano keys and they are that pale and he looks at her face, drawn and pale too.
— Yannick Murphy
I hate that phrase "the real world." Why is an aircraft factory more real than a university? Is it?
— Richard Hugo
Creativity is the answer. I always prefer the creative solution to an expensive solution.
— Keenen Ivory Wayans
Amid attempts to protect elephants from ivory poachers and dolphins from tuna nets, the rights of children go remarkably unremarked.
— Anna Quindlen
The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.
— Oscar Wilde
I can't change the pain you suffered in the past, but I can do everything possible to prevent the pain you might suffer in the future.
— Julie Eshbaugh
He lived in a dreamer's world of ivory keys and messy shirts, unconcerned with the people around him.
— Claire Legrand
Mark Twain fell in love with his wife after he saw her picture painted on an ivory miniature the size of a fingernail.
— Jenny Offill
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
Slot machines are like crack for old people.
— Keenen Ivory Wayans
I throw it all in there, Kung Fu, blaxploitation, horror.
— Keenen Ivory Wayans
Beauty is an evil in an ivory setting.
— Theocritus
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'.
— Christopher Paolini
Do you have a brother or cousin in Ivory Coast, because I don't have the money to bring you to Porto.
— Jose Mourinho
I am not ranting. I possess a perspective here that you people, who are locked in the ivory basements of your own sub-cultures, simply do not possess.
— Bruce Sterling
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
Who reflects too much will accomplish little.
— Friedrich Schiller
Son, only a pimp in a Louisiana whore- house carries pearl-handled revolvers. These are ivory.
— George S. Patton Jr.
Images of the Madonna and the Christ Child carved in ivory and exported to Europe.
— Jack Weatherford
Any woman who can make you happy has all the information she needs to make you miserable if she wants to.
— Judith Ivory
Indecisive? Uncertain? Worried? Let the rolling ivory tumble your burdens away. $2.50 per pair.
— Luke Rhinehart
White. Like a clean piece of paper, like uncarved ivory, all is white when the story begins.
— Daniel Mason
It's the teenage and university crowd, so we give them lots of sex jokes and gross humour.
— Keenen Ivory Wayans
Because being with you is like being too close to the sun. It's overwhelming and I'm scared I'm going to get burned.
— Ivory Quinn
Beige is atmosphere. It's bisque, it's ivory, it's cream, it's stone, it's toast, it's cappuccino. It;s well, it's magic.
— Albert Hadley
All I need is a camera and I'll make things happen.
— Keenen Ivory Wayans
He looked for gestures, afraid of words
— Judith Ivory
People need to make a stand and be clear that trading in ivory is immoral and unacceptable.
— Yaya Toure
But strange that I was not told That the brain can hold In a tiny ivory cell God's heaven and hell.
— Oscar Wilde
Oscar Peterson plays the best ivory box I've ever heard.
— Count Basie
It may surprise people to learn that one elephant is killed every 15 minutes for its ivory.
— Li Bingbing
Ebony and ivory live together in perfect harmony, side by side on my keyboard piano, oh Lord, why don't we?
— Paul McCartney
People who are innately funny are innately disturbed.
— Keenen Ivory Wayans
Just making a good movie is hard to do.
— Keenen Ivory Wayans
You can kind of feel when things are going to work out.
— Keenen Ivory Wayans
The little bit (two inches wide) of ivory on which I work with so fine a brush as produces little effect after much labour.
— Jane Austen
Ivory towers are as rare as bowling alleys in tribal cultures.
— Terry Eagleton
Their color slowly faded from out of the flowers; but their scent lingered to honey the air he breathed.
— E. M. Forster
I don't want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
I always prefer the big laugh. That is always the objective, especially with a film like Scary Movie 2.
— Keenen Ivory Wayans
Grammar perfect books are for Ivy Leaguers in Ivory Towers. My book is a sandcastle built on the beach of usefullness.
— Jonathan Heatt
You'll make better art after a day at the office than you will after a lifetime in an ivory tower.
— Sara Benincasa
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
You do what it takes. It was on me to deliver.
— Keenen Ivory Wayans
An ivory tower is a fine place as long as the door is open.
— Walter Darby Bannard
Piano playing is more difficult than statesmanship. It is harder to awake emotions in ivory keys than it is in human beings.
— Ignacy Jan Paderewski
I'm Lily Ivory, and this is my friend Sailor."
"You sail?"
"No. It's my name, not my avocation. — Juliet Blackwell
"You sail?"
"No. It's my name, not my avocation. — Juliet Blackwell
I like to have fun and be funny, but I'm much more of a thinker.
— Keenen Ivory Wayans
I've always thought academics should get a little slurry on their boots from time to time.
— Karen Lord
Of course, I know that love is sometimes like that - some men love men, some women love women.
— Julie Eshbaugh
If Mother had to be told not to shove the entire brick of Ivory up Junior's hindquarters, constipation is the least of his problems.
— James Lileks
My skin has turned to porcelain, to ivory, to steel.
— George R R Martin
Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves Have made.-
— Langston Hughes
Many live in the ivory tower called reality; they never venture on the open sea of thought.
— Francois Gautier
Somewhere lives a bad Cajun cook, just as somewhere must live one last ivory-billed woodpecker. For me, I don't expect ever to encounter either one.
— William Least Heat-Moon
To their rear, a wolf howled, and she wondered if it was her handsome red and ivory beast. Ferghus
— Vivienne Savage
When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter.
— Logan Pearsall Smith
Why don't you tell me a story?
— Julie Eshbaugh
It takes more than holding hands and singing 'Ebony and Ivory'.
— David Mitchell
Your people eat dry and tasteless flesh but it is off plates as smooth as ivory and as round as the sun.
— C.S. Lewis
Sometimes a flame must level a forest to ash before new growth can begin. I believe Wonderland needed a scouring.
— A.G. Howard
We look down on our scientists if they engage in outside consultation. We implicitly promote the ivory tower.
— Vikram Sarabhai
I took the volume to a table, opened its soft, ivory pages ... and fell into it as into a pool during dry season.
— Janet Fitch
This brutal man is my home. His hell is my heaven. I'm his Ivory, and he's my darkest note.
— Pam Godwin
I put heavy emphasis on the characters.
— Keenen Ivory Wayans
It was a little skirmish across a century.
— Margery Allingham
In rare instances you have to give up what you thought was a great scene.
— Keenen Ivory Wayans
Free from ivory-tower
the pencil twirls
across the footpath — Santosh Kalwar
the pencil twirls
across the footpath — Santosh Kalwar
They say he's an intelligent man, right? Speaks five languages! I've got a 15-year-old boy from the Ivory Coast who speaks five languages!
— Alex Ferguson
I put the cameras on her and told her to be obnoxious as she could possibly could be. She was.
— Keenen Ivory Wayans
There are two phases to a movie. First you shoot the movie, and then you make the movie. Generally, post-production is longer than filming.
— Keenen Ivory Wayans
We do nods to Charlie's Angels and Mission Impossible because they are popular with our fan base.
— Keenen Ivory Wayans
The commonest ivory tower is that of the average man, the state of passivity towards experience.
— W. H. Auden
Even ivory towers need central heating.
— Breyten Breytenbach
Smooth shapes are very rare in the wild but extremely important in the ivory tower and the factory.
— Benoit Mandelbrot
You just can't make any movie and it will be good now. This is a really a difficult time to be in films.
— Keenen Ivory Wayans
Very softly as he nuzzled her, his mouth near her ear, he began to sing: I'm so happy with you, la, la ...
— Judith Ivory
I have been a director who has starred, participated on both sides of the filmmaking process.
— Keenen Ivory Wayans
A caricature of what she'd been remained, sparely drawn in tones of gray and ivory.
— Jay Greenstein
I'm just calm under fire. I'm not intimidating at all.
— Keenen Ivory Wayans