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• 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

  Bird, Tolerance, World

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• An ivory tower is a fine place as long as the door is open.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Doors, Ivory Tower, Long

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• 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

  Ivory Tower, People, Towers

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Your anger was a climate I inhabited like a desert in a dry frigid weather of high thin air and ivory sun, sand dunes the wind lifted into stinging clouds that blinded and choked me where the only ice was in the blood.

  Marge Piercy

  Blood, Ice, Wind

  1983 Stone, Paper, Knife,'TheWeight'.

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• Two diverse gates there are of bodiless dreams, These of sawn ivory, and those of horn. Such dreams as issue where the ivory gleams Fly without fate, and turn our hopes to scorn. But dreams which issue through the burnished horn, What man soe'er beholds them on his bed, These work with virtue and of truth are born.

  Homer

  Dream, Fate, Men

  Homer, William Shakespeare (2015). “Delphi Poetry Anthology: The World's Greatest Poems”, p.67, Delphi Classics

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• Ivory towers are as rare as bowling alleys in tribal cultures.

  Terry Eagleton

  Ivory Tower, Towers, Culture

  "Why Marx Was Right". Book by Terry Eagleton, 2011.

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• 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

  Art, Moving, Ivory Tower

  "Fifty Shades from Christian’s Point of View: Includes Grey and Darker". Book by E. L. James, 2017.

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• The artist's life is to be where life is, active life, found in neither ivory tower nor concrete shelter; he must be out listening to everything, looking at everything, and thinking it all out afterward.

  Sean O'Casey

  Book, Thinking, Artist

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• Do you have a brother or cousin in Ivory Coast, because I don't have the money to bring you to Porto.

  Jose Mourinho

  Soccer, Football, Cousin

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• White. Like a clean piece of paper, like uncarved ivory, all is white when the story begins.

  Daniel Mason

  White, Stories, Pieces

  Daniel Mason (2003). “The Piano Tuner: A Novel”, p.44, Vintage

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• Nature has laid out all her art in beautifying the face; she has touched it with vermilion, planted in it a double row of ivory, made it the seat of smiles and blushes, lighted it up and enlivened it with the brightness of the eyes, hung it on each side with curious organs of sense, given it airs and graces that cannot be described, and surrounded it with such a flowing shade of hair as sets all its beauties in the most agreeable light.

  Joseph Addison

  Art, Eye, Light

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator”, p.43

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• I don't think I'm wrong when I say that the most beautiful objects of the "stone age" were made of skin, fabric, and especially wood. The "stone age" ought to be called the "wood age." How many African statues are made of stone, bone, or ivory? Maybe one in a thousand! And prehistoric man had no more ivory at his disposal than African tribes. Maybe even less. He must have had thousands of wooden fetishes, all gone now.

  Pablo Picasso

  Beautiful, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

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• None of us ever escape the first few years of our lives. They make a mould into which we are cast, and though it may be broken, and we turned loose, some remnant of it, some intangible evil or lovely thing or both, will remain with us, like the odor to a flower, or the smoothness to a piece of ivory. It is part of the immortality of youth.

  Lizette Woodworth Reese

  Flower, Years, Broken

  Lizette Woodworth Reese (1929). “A Victorian Village: Reminiscences of Other Days”

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• Before I made it big I worked as a dishwasher, washing dishes in this place called Dishwasher House where people could just come in and do whatever they wanted to the dishes and we had to clean them with our hands till they bled. A lot of struggling actors worked there-Downey Jr., Joaquin Phoenix, Damon Wayans, Marlon Wayans, Keenen Ivory Wayans-and we actually all kind of wish we still did.

  William H. Macy

  Struggle, Hands, Phoenix

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• 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

  Heart, Ivory Tower, Towers

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

  Reno Collier

  Pounds, Lost

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• Near that a dusty paint-box, some odd hooks, A half-burnt match, an ivory block, three books, Where conic sections, spherics, logarithms, To great Laplace, from Saunderson and Sims, Lie heaped in their harmonious disarray Of figures,-disentangle them who may.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Block, Lying, Book

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1994). “The Selected Poetry and Prose of Shelley”, p.435, Wordsworth Editions

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

  Reem Acra

  Girl, Ideas, White

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• The beautiful wooden board on a stand in my father's study. The gleaming ivory pieces. The stern king. The haughty queen. The noble knight. The pious bishop. And the game itself, the way each piece contributed its individual power to the whole. It was simple. It was complex. It was savage; it was elegant. It was a dance; it was a war. It was finite and eternal. It was life.

  Rick Yancey

  Beautiful, Queens, Kings

  Rick Yancey (2014). “The Infinite Sea: The Second Book of the 5th Wave”, p.31, Penguin

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• Out in Hollywood, where the streets are paved with Goldwyn, the word "sophisticate" means, very simply, "obscene." A sophisticatedstory is a dirty story. Some of that meaning was wafted eastward and got itself mixed up into the present definition. So that a "sophisticate" means: one who dwells in a tower made of a DuPont substitute for ivory and holds a glass of flat champagne in one hand and an album of dirty post cards in the other.

  Dorothy Parker

  Dirty, Mean, Glasses

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• Amid attempts to protect elephants from ivory poachers and dolphins from tuna nets, the rights of children go remarkably unremarked.

  Anna Quindlen

  Children, Rights, Elephants

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• 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

  Ivory Tower, Towers, Poet

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• 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

  Science, Order, Ivory Tower

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• Oscar Peterson plays the best ivory box I've ever heard.

  Count Basie

  Play, Oscars, Boxes

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• Standing to America, bringing home
  black gold, black ivory, black seed.

  Robert Hayden

  Home, America, Black

  Robert Earl Hayden, Frederick Glaysher (1984). “Collected Prose”, p.163, University of Michigan Press

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