List Of Ivory Tower Quotes

If You Shut Yourself Up Disdainfully In Your Ivory Tower And Insist That You Have Your Own Conscience And Are Satisfied With Its Approval, It Is Because You Know That Everybody Is Criticizing You, Condemning You, Or Laughing At You.

The Only Refuge Left To Us Was The Poet's Ivory Tower, Which We Climbed, Ever Higher, To Isolate Ourselves From The Mob.

It's A Fallacy That Writers Have To Shut Themselves Up In Their Ivory Towers To Write. I Have All These Interruptions, Three Of Which I Gave Birth To. If I Was Thrown For A Loop Every Time I Was Distracted I Could Never Get Anything Done.

Maybe What I Admired Most About John Steinbeck Is That He Never Mortgaged His 45-acre Heart For A Suite In An Ivory Tower.

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?

It Used To Be That Readers Were Relegated Because They Considered Themselves Far Above Society, And So The Metaphor Of The Ivory Tower Developed. Now There's Still This Idea That The Reader Doesn't Take Part In The Social Game And In Politics, The Res Publica, But For Other Reasons: He Doesn't Do It Because He's Not Making Any Money.

Smooth Shapes Are Very Rare In The Wild But Extremely Important In The Ivory Tower And The Factory.

The Ivory Tower Of The Artist May Be The Only Stronghold Left For Human Values, Cultural Treasures, Man’s Cult Of Beauty.

Friedmans Influence Reaches Far Beyond The Academic Community And The World Of Economics. Rather Than Lock Himself In An Ivory Tower, He Has Joined The Fray To Fight For The Survival Of This Great Country Of Ours.

When They Come Downstairs From Their Ivory Towers, Idealists Are Very Apt To Walk Straight Into The Gutter.

I'm Not A Believer In Putting Designers Off In An Ivory Tower. They Need To Have A Voice At The Table So They Can Identify Where And Why Design Can Make A Difference. We Also Need To Understand The Business Issues. If We Don't Make Our Numbers This Quarter, We Don't Earn The Right To Do Something Cool The Next Time.

As Much As We Sometimes Roll Our Eyes At The Ivory-tower Isolation Of Universities, They Continue To Serve As Remarkable Engines Of Innovation.