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When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter. -- Logan Pearsall Smith
Grammar perfect books are for Ivy Leaguers in Ivory Towers. My book is a sandcastle built on the beach of usefullness. -- Jonathan Heatt
Ivory towers are as rare as bowling alleys in tribal cultures. -- Terry Eagleton
An ivory tower is a fine place as long as the door is open. -- Walter Darby Bannard
I don't want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward. -- Billie Joe Armstrong
Smooth shapes are very rare in the wild but extremely important in the ivory tower and the factory -- Benoit Mandelbrot
Jan built herself an ivory tower to keep the wolves out; she never dreamed they were already inside. -- Mira Grant
We look down on our scientists if they engage in outside consultation. We implicitly promote the ivory tower. -- Vikram Sarabhai
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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. -- Luigi Pirandello
Scientists are supposed to live in ivory towers. Their darkrooms and their vibration-proof benches are supposed to isolate their activities from the disturbances of common life. What they tell us is supposed to be for the ages, not for the next election. But the reality may be otherwise. -- Simon LeVay
Human history has become too much a matter of dogma taught by 'professionals' in ivory towers as though it's all fact. Actually, much of human history is up for grabs. The further back you go, the more that the history that's taught in the schools and universities begins to look like some kind of faerie story. -- Graham Hancock
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
Great question in science - questions like the ones Herschel raised about the structure of the universe - are seldom answered by ivory-tower types engaging in pure thought. They are answered by people who are willing to get down into the trenches and grapple with nature. If that means casting your own telescope mirrors, as Herschel did, so be it. -- James Trefil
As for mathematicians themselves: don't expect too much help. Most of them are too far removed in their ivory towers to take up such challenges. And anyway, they are not competent. After all, they are just mathematicians-what we need is paramathematicians, like you... It is you who can be the welding force, between mathematicians and stories, in order to achieve the synthesis. -- Apostolos Doxiadis
The commonest ivory tower is that of the average man, the state of passivity towards experience. -- W. H. Auden
Many live in the ivory tower called reality; they never venture on the open sea of thought. -- Francois Gautier
Smooth shapes are very rare in the wild but extremely important in the ivory tower and the factory. -- Benoit Mandelbrot
Strategy should evolve out of the mud of the marketplace, not in the antiseptic environment of an ivory tower. -- Al Ries
The ivory tower of the artist may be the only stronghold left for human values, cultural treasures, manâ??s cult of beauty. -- Anais Nin
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

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