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I wash my face every night with Ivory soap, and I don't wear much makeup. -- Brandy Norwood
When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter. -- Logan Pearsall Smith
James Ivory comes close to the actors for the first rehearsal. He more or less lets you direct yourself and then will only correct you if he finds it incorrect. -- Leslie Caron
I was a little concerned that a lot of people thought I wrote Merchant Ivory movies. I also thought if I was ever going to write something strange and difficult, that was the time. -- Kazuo Ishiguro
It's such a pleasant surprise when you come on set and you find someone in charge like Ken Branagh or James Ivory. You know that you're going to do a day's work and at the end of it, it's going to be good. -- Anthony Hopkins
I don't want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward. -- Billie Joe Armstrong
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
Our dreams are a second life. I have never been able to penetrate without a shudder those ivory or horned gates which separate us from the invisible world. -- Gerard De Nerval
Having a stadium in France named after a footballer from the Ivory Coast, even if I'm proud of my France-Ivory Coast background, is a great proof of integration. -- Didier Drogba
The majority of the cocoa that we eat, it is actually produced by young kids which are being enslaved in the plantations of the Ivory Coast. Ivory Coast is the largest producer of cocoa. -- Loretta Napoleoni
Seized ivory stocks around Africa are recycled back into illegal trade due to corruption. Ivory stocks should be burnt together with the hopes of traffickers for any "legal" way to allow them to slaughter our elephants. -- Ofir Drori
I always challenge myself. I get out in deep water and I always try to get back. But I get hung up. The audience never knows, but that's when I smile the most, when I show the most ivory. -- Earl Hines
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. -- Jodi Picoult
I don't ascribe to the idea of the ivory tower composer who sits alone in a room composing his masterpieces and then comes down from Mount Sinai with the tablets. It doesn't work like that. The job of a composer is putting something down on a piece of paper that will inspire the person who's playing. -- John Zorn
I think public intellectuals have a responsibility - to be self-critical on the one hand, to do serious, nuanced work rigorously executed; but to also be able to get off those perches and out of those ivory towers and speak to the real people who make decisions; to speak truth to power and the powerless with lucidity and eloquence. -- Michael Eric Dyson
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. -- Alberto Manguel
Keenen Ivory Wayans -- Takes, Deliver
Ivory towers are as rare as bowling alleys in tribal cultures. -- Terry Eagleton
Ivory may not be so white as snow, but the whole Arctic continent does not make ivory black. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Do you have a brother or cousin in Ivory Coast, because I don't have the money to bring you to Porto. -- Jose Mourinho
Grammar perfect books are for Ivy Leaguers in Ivory Towers. My book is a sandcastle built on the beach of usefullness. -- Jonathan Heatt
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
Ivory's the kind of girl who gets drunk and immediately starts slurring. I have a lot of friends like that, and I think it's because it makes me look 'more together. -- Chelsea Handler
I am a simple man and I use simple materials: Ivory Black, Vermilion, Prussian Blue, Yellow Ochre, Flake White and no medium. Thatâ??s all Iâ??ve ever used in my paintings. -- L. S. Lowry
To become a celebrity is to become a brand name. There is Ivory Soap, Rice Krispies, and Philip Roth. Ivory is the soap that floats; Rice Krispies the breakfast cereal that goes snap-crackle-pop; Philip Roth the Jew who masturbates with a piece of liver. -- Philip Roth
When Manuel Valls says there's nothing to understand because "understanding is justifying," he echoes back to Georges W Bush's logic in 2001. When FranÃ§ois Hollande says "they are attacking us because of who we are," what does it say about victims in Mali, Baghdad, Ivory Coast or Turkey? -- Tariq Ramadan
Smooth shapes are very rare in the wild but extremely important in the ivory tower and the factory -- Benoit Mandelbrot
Smooth shapes are very rare in the wild but extremely important in the ivory tower and the factory. -- Benoit Mandelbrot
Ebony and ivory live together in perfect harmony, side by side on my keyboard piano, oh Lord, why don't we? -- Paul McCartney
The more traditional bride still prefers white or ivory, but the young girls... seem to like the idea of using colors. -- Reem Acra
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
Quinquireme of Nineveh from distant Ophir, Rowing home to haven in sunny Palestine, With a cargo of ivory, And apes and peacocks, Sandalwood, cedarwood, and sweet white wine. -- John Masefield
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. -- Jerry Weintraub
Back when I was restoring art and antiques, finding ivory was very difficult because it's illegal, and the only difference between bone and ivory is that bone is free and not illegal. -- Dan Phillips
America's liberal arts universities have long been safe zones for leftist thinking, protected ivory towers for the pseudo-elite who earn their livings writing papers nobody reads about gender roles in the poetry of Maya Angelou. -- Ben Shapiro
My price is five dollars for a miniature on ivory, and I have engaged three or four at that price. My price for profiles is one dollar, and everybody is willing to engage me at that price. -- Samuel Morse
My price is five dollars for a miniature on ivory, and I have engaged three or four at that price. My price for profiles is one dollar, and everybody is willing to engage me at that price -- Samuel Morse
On the whole, the modern palette is the same as the one used by the artists of Pompeii... I mean it has not been enriched. The ancients used earths, ochres, and ivory-black - you can do anything with that palette. -- Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Anything that promotes a kernel of science, even though it's exaggerated and hyped by Hollywood, I think is a step forward. We in the ivory tower ultimately have to realize that in some sense we have to sing for our supper. -- Michio Kaku
Illegal killings of elephants are being linked to organized crime and the funding of armed militia groups. Many consumers in Asia do not realize that by buying ivory, they are playing a role in the illegal wildlife trade and its serious consequences. -- Li Bingbing
What brought the British to the Gambia in the first place - which was bigger than it is now - was trade in ivory because the Gambia had a lot of elephants. They wiped out all the elephants and ended up selling Africans. -- Yahya Jammeh
Elephants are living treasures. Nature's gardeners. Nature's great teachers. Tragically some people don't give a damn. They prefer the dead treasure to the living one. The ivory. We must challenge this so-called 'trade' with all our might and shame on those who would condone it. -- Virginia McKenna
Our daily battles are to get traffickers behind bars, but the war for the fate of elephants is far away from the field and our sweat, it is a war of values vs greed, where more elephants can be killed by a vote than by any gun. -- Ofir Drori
Determining the value of individual texts has been an ideological scuffle in literary criticism for centuries: but the environmental cost of printing them hauls this dispute from the ivory tower into day-to-day decision-making. Is it right to write? The publishing industry is slowly beginning to commit to using sustainably harvested trees. -- Tristram Stuart
I am a huge fan of using social media to connect with people because I think there was this 'ivory tower' aspect of journalism where people might read a byline for years but have no idea about the person who was behind it and never get to communicate with them or ask them a question. -- Sarah Lacy
If the only people we seek to impress are within our own ivory towers of artistic excellence or our hallowed institutions, we will find the audience is gone in 20 to 30 years. I find as I keep a broader audience in mind, I choose to sing and say more things I actually want to share and fewer things just for the sake of impressing others. -- Charity Sunshine Tillemann-Dick
Even ivory towers need central heating. -- Breyten Breytenbach
free from ivory-towerthe pencil twirlsacross the footpath -- Santosh Kalwar
Beauty is an evil in an ivory setting. -- Theocritus
My skin has turned to porcelain, to ivory, to steel. -- George R. R. Martin
Oscar Peterson plays the best ivory box I've ever heard. -- Count Basie
Standing to America, bringing home black gold, black ivory, black seed. -- Robert Hayden
If we buy ivory it makes all of us killers as well, -- Yao Ming
It's hard to get ivory in Africa, but in Alabama the Tuscaloosa -- Groucho Marx
Please don't let the illegal ivory trade orphan even more baby elephants. -- Yao Ming
Lisa Lampanelli lost 100 pounds, but that's because she was poached for ivory. -- Reno Collier
An ivory tower is a fine place as long as the door is open. -- Walter Darby Bannard
The commonest ivory tower is that of the average man, the state of passivity towards experience. -- W. H. Auden
It may surprise people to learn that one elephant is killed every 15 minutes for its ivory. -- Li Bingbing
White. Like a clean piece of paper, like uncarved ivory, all is white when the story begins. -- Daniel Mason
Many live in the ivory tower called reality; they never venture on the open sea of thought. -- Francois Gautier
People need to make a stand and be clear that trading in ivory is immoral and unacceptable. -- Yaya Toure
We look down on our scientists if they engage in outside consultation. We implicitly promote the ivory tower. -- Vikram Sarabhai
Jan built herself an ivory tower to keep the wolves out; she never dreamed they were already inside. -- Mira Grant
He was tough as an antique ivory figurine, which has withstood the viscissitudes of centuries and can accept more." -- Pat Frank
Strategy should evolve out of the mud of the marketplace, not in the antiseptic environment of an ivory tower. -- Al Ries
The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history. -- Oscar Wilde
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
Amid attempts to protect elephants from ivory poachers and dolphins from tuna nets, the rights of children go remarkably unremarked. -- Anna Quindlen
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
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
The ivory tower of the artist may be the only stronghold left for human values, cultural treasures, manâ??s cult of beauty. -- Anais Nin
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
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
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
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
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
Language evolves and moves on. It is an organic thing. It is not stuck in an ivory tower, hung with expensive works of art. -- E. L. James
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
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
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. -- William Butler Yeats
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
More birds have adapted to a changing world than have failed. Very few have the narrow tolerance of the ivory-billed woodpecker or the Bachman's warbler. -- Roger Tory Peterson
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
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
Policies that emanate from ivory towers often have an adverse impact on the people out in the field who are fighting the wars or bringing in the revenues. -- Colin Powell
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. -- George Coyne
Horses are creatures who worship the earth as they gallop on feet of ivory. Constrained by the wonder of dying and birth, the horses still run, they are free. -- John Denver
There's a good deal of ivory being sold that claims to be antique ivory. In fact, we've seen evidence that there are fake antiques being carved in countries like China. -- Allen Crawford
What we do to animals directly impacts everything, because we are all connected. It disrupts the food chain, it funds terrorism (ivory), it changes our climate, our oceans, it starts wars. -- Nikki Reed
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. -- David Castle
We have all seen these circus elephants complete with tusks, ivory in their head and thick skins, who move around the circus ring and grab the tail of the elephant ahead of them. -- John F. Kennedy
I judge wisely...as if nothin ever surprise me, Loungin, between two pillars of ivory. I'm lively, my dome piece is like buildin stones in Greece. My poems are deep, from ancient thrones I speak. -- Killah Priest
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On turf and curb and bower-roof The snow-storm spreads its ivory woof; It paves with pearl the garden-walk; And lovingly around the tatter'd stalk And snivering stem its magic weaves A mantle fair as lily-leaves. -- John Townsend Trowbridge

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