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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

This young Adonis, who looks as if he was made out of ivory and rose-leaves. — Oscar Wilde

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

I wonder, when women who buy beautiful ivory jewelry fasten those elaborate pendants around their throats, if they are choked by sadness. — Jodi Picoult

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

And let me touch those curving claws of yellow ivory; and grasp the tail that like a monstrous asp coils round your heavy velvet paws. — Oscar Wilde

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

But at this moment, this one word feels like the answer to every question:

You. — Julie Eshbaugh

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

What irony. This great ship that carried all their fates upon her steel and rivets sailed like a compeer under him, half-blind with a limp. — Judith Ivory

But strange that I was not told That the brain can hold In a tiny ivory cell God's heaven and hell. — Oscar Wilde

I wash my face every night with Ivory soap, and I don't wear much makeup. — Brandy Norwood

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

It's hard to get ivory in Africa, but in Alabama the Tuscaloosa — Groucho Marx

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

Standing to America, bringing home
black gold, black ivory, black seed. — Robert Hayden

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 ivory tower of the artist may be the only stronghold left for human values, cultural treasures, man's cult of beauty. — Anais Nin

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

One of the most erotic things a woman can do is brush her tits against a man's back, and Ivory, your tits are sinful." Jesus, — Pam Godwin

An ivory tower is a fine place as long as the door is open. — Walter Darby Bannard

Cheyenne. Created from the finest Belgian lace over ivory sateen, it fit Anna like — Maggie Brendan

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

We have fallen in the dreams the ever-living
Breathe on the tarnished mirror of the world,
And then smooth out with ivory hands and sigh. — W.B.Yeats

I'm Lily Ivory, and this is my friend Sailor."
"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

If we buy ivory it makes all of us killers as well, — Yao Ming

He was tough as an antique ivory figurine, which has withstood the viscissitudes of centuries and can accept more. — Pat Frank

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

Lisa Lampanelli lost 100 pounds, but that's because she was poached for ivory. — Reno Collier

The more traditional bride still prefers white or ivory, but the young girls ... seem to like the idea of using colors. — Reem Acra

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

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

You think the queen of the castle is going to let me in the ivory tower? — Jay Crownover

Even ivory towers need central heating. — Breyten Breytenbach

Please don't let the illegal ivory trade orphan even more baby elephants. — Yao Ming

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

Mills & Boon and Harlequins are like colourful jelly beans, you can't get enough of... — Anne Ivory