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.
Quotes about ivory (16 Quotes)
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.
I don't want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward.
But our captain counts the image of God nevertheless his image cut in ebony as if done in ivory, and in the blackest Moors he sees the representation of the King of Heaven.
Strategy should evolve out of the mud of the marketplace, not in the antiseptic environment of an ivory tower.
Beautiful and rich is an old friendship, Grateful to the touch as ancient ivory, Smooth as aged wine, or sheen of tapestry Where light has lingered, intimate and long. Full of tears and warm is an old friendship That asks no longer deeds of gallantry, Or any deed at all save that the friend shall be Alive and breathing somewhere, like a song.
White teeth, white hands, and neck as ivory white, Black eyes, black brows, black hairs that hide delight Red lips, red cheeks, and tops of nipples red, Long legs, long fingers, long locks of her head, Short feet, short ears, and teeth in measure short, Broad front, broad breast, broad hips in seemly sort, Straight legs, straight nose and straight her pleasures place, Full thighs, full buttocks, full her belly's space, Thin lips, thin eyelids, and hair thin and fine, Small mouth, small waist, small pupils of her eyes.
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.
The little bit (two inches wide) of ivory on which I work with so fine a brush as produces little effect after much labour.
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.
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.
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.
Smooth shapes are very rare in the wild but extremely important in the ivory tower and the factory.
Two gates the silent house of Sleep adorn Of polished ivory this, that of transparent horn True visions through transparent horn arise Through polished ivory pass deluding lies.
Earth Is Enough. We men of Earth have here the stuff Of Paradise we have enough We need no other stones to build The Temple of the Unfulfilled No other ivory for the doors No other marble for the floors No other cedar for the beam And dome of man's immortal dream. Here on the paths of everyday Here on the common human way Is all the stuff the gods would take To build a Heaven, to mold and make New Edens. Ours is the stuff sublime To build Eternity in time.
When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter.