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Ivory Tower Quotes - Page 2

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.

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

Programs, systems and methods sit well in the ivory towers of monasteries or in the wooden arms of icons. Head knowledge comes from the pages of a theology text. But the invitation to know God - truly know Him - is always an invitation to suffer. Not to suffer alone, but to suffer with Him.

Joni Eareckson Tada
Ivory Tower, Icons, Suffering
Joni Eareckson Tada (2010). “When God Weeps: Why Our Sufferings Matter to the Almighty”, p.137, Zondervan

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
Ivory Tower, Racism, Towers
"John Mellencamp takes a hard look at race issues on Cuttin' Heads" by Eric Schumacher Rasmussen, www.mtv.com. October 15, 2001.

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
Mean, Ivory Tower, Mirrors

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.

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
Ivory Tower, Goal, Trying

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