The Ivory Tower Quotes
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The 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
Though confined to our destiny, we do get to pick the color scheme.
— Robert Breault
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
Written words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature
— Nadine Gordimer
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
I don't want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
An ivory tower is a fine place as long as the door is open.
— Walter Darby Bannard
Knowing was a barrier which prevented learning.
— Frank Herbert
Ivory towers are as rare as bowling alleys in tribal cultures.
— Terry Eagleton
This was the torment and insanity, the enjoyment of angels, when he was helpless in Silas's hands. "Frighten me," Dominic whispered.
— K.J. Charles
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
Many live in the ivory tower called reality; they never venture on the open sea of thought.
— Francois Gautier
The commonest ivory tower is that of the average man, the state of passivity towards experience.
— W. H. Auden
Free from ivory-towerthe pencil twirls
across the footpath — Santosh Kalwar
Power is in inflicting pain and humiliation.
— George Orwell
We look down on our scientists if they engage in outside consultation. We implicitly promote the ivory tower.
— Vikram Sarabhai
