Famous Quotes & Sayings

Al Ries

Strategy should evolve out of the mud of the marketplace, not in the antiseptic environment of an ivory tower.

C. S. Lewis

Your people eat dry and tasteless flesh but it is off plates as smooth as ivory and as round as the sun.

Billie Joe Armstrong

I don't want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward.

Breyten Breytenbach

Even ivory towers need central heating.

Alberto Manguel

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.

Anthony Hopkins

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.

Chuck Jones

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.

Christopher Paolini

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'.

Benoit Mandelbrot

Smooth shapes are very rare in the wild but extremely important in the ivory tower and the factory

Roger McNamee

Motorola to me in some ways is a very disappointing company,

Mike Stoops

More and more we need to find ways to get them on the field. They are very athletic, and I think they can contribute.

Charles Spurgeon

The way to do a great deal is to keep on doing a little. The way to do nothing at all is to be continually resolving that you will do everything.

Charles Olson

A poem is energy transferred from where the poet got it (he will have some several causations), by way of the poem itself to, all the way over to, the reader.

Diane Paulus

Im always interested in looking - historically - at how theater can animate history and how all of that can make us engage with our lives in an enriching way.

Dennis Potter

A bad act done will fester and create in its own way. It's not only goodness that creates. Bad things create. They have their own yeast.

Demosthenes

The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.

Deborah Tannen

For most women, the language of conversation is primarily a language of rapport: a way of establishing connections and negotiating relationships.

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Many, many composers have only found their way to a certain form, through familiarizing themselves with texts.

Kim Clijsters

My legs were like, oh my god, what's going on,

Antonio McDyess

My legs are starting to get back under me. I'm getting my rhythm back and I'm just going out there to play. Not really thinking about it.

Ray Durham

When the legs are healthy, I can do the things I want to do. Right now, my legs are strong.

Karl Kraus

News reports stand up as people, and people wither into editorials. ClichTs walk around on two legs while men are having theirs shot off.

Stromile Swift

I feel good. I still worked out every day. My legs still work. (Bright light) still kind of hurts, but I can get through it.

Jason Miller

When you're properly stretched, you're legs will feel loose. You might feel a little pain when you stretch, but that's just your muscles loosening.

Matt Lojeski

We get a little rest, get a lot of time to prepare, get our legs back a little bit.

Floyd Landis

We'll see how it goes, ... I've recovered okay from the Tour, we'll see how the legs are. I don't want to make any promises.

David Prowse

I am doing better now though one of my legs is shorter than the other due to the operations.