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.

Benoit Mandelbrot

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

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.

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'.

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.

Charles Dickens

We went our several ways," said Lady Dedlock, "and had little in common even before we agreed to differ. It is to be regretted, I suppose, but it could not be helped.

Alan Watts

Zen is a way of liberation, concerned not with discovering what is good or bad or advantageous, but what is.

Alan Moore

You see, there's the way things seemed and then there's the way things were and one is so often the total reverse of the other.

Alan J. Pakula

Some actors come to the set ready to do their parts a certain way.

Alan Jay Lerner

An Englishmans way of speaking absolutely classifies him.

Alain Prost

When I test I never go right to the limit. Only because when you are below the limit you can go at the same speed all day, and that's the only way you can be absolutely sure about what you are testing.

Al Michaels

I've always felt that I'm in a spontaneous business and if you script something, if you plan something, it will sound that way.

Al Ries

Branding is simply a more efficient way to sell things.

Al Ries

The best way to make news is to announce a new category, not a new product.

David Prowse

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

Blanka Vlasic

I like so much wearing heels, legs look so much better, everything looks better. But it's only recently I've had the courage to do that.

Dick Dale

I almost had to have my leg amputated because of an infection.

C. S. Lewis

The mouse is a fair treat but this one would talk the hind legs off a donkey.

Bob Dylan

Can you please crawl out your window? Use your arms and your legs, it won't ruin you

Kiesza

To be honest, I'm more of a sneaker person. My legs hurt if I wear heels for too long.

Ray Durham

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

Charles Bukowski

but as God said, crossing his legs, I see where I have made plenty of poets but not so very much poetry.

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.