Quotes About Ivory

Back when I was restoring art and antiques, finding ivory was very difficult because it's illegal, and the only difference between bone and ivory is that bone is free and not illegal.

Well, I can't help going to see Sibyl play, even if it is only for an act. I get hungry for her presence; and when I think of the wonderful soul that is hidden away in that little ivory body, I am filled with awe. You can dine with me to-night, Dorian, can't you? He shook his head. To night she is Imogen, he answered, and tomorrow night she will be Juliet. When is she Sibyl Vane? Never. I congratulate you.

Her ivory hands on the ivory keys Strayed in a fitful fantasy, Like the silver gleam when the poplar trees Rustle their pale leaves listlessly, Or the drifting foam of a restless sea When the waves show their teeth in the flying breeze.

The ivory girl had stepped down from her pedestal and stamped her foot. The foundling had found her voice.

though the depiction of him on the stamp is not exactly flattering. A number of Washington portraits share this quality. Energetic and impatient, especially when young, he hated sitting around posing to be painted, and it usually shows. He also had bad teeth, some of which had been replaced with ivory replicas, which explains the puffiness around his mouth.

Dreams out of the ivory gate, and visions before midnight. —SIR THOMAS BROWNE,

I was a sandwich artist at Subway and can still rattle off the order of toppings. I was fired because I got meatball sauce on the ivory cutting boards.

Beauty is an evil in an ivory setting.

Her fingers are still cool, like ivory on piano keys and they are that pale and he looks at her face, drawn and pale too.

I'm the princess in an ivory tower, except every brick is made of history, and I built this prison myself.

There are two gates of Sleep. One is of horn, easy of passage for the shades of truth; the other, of gleaming white ivory, permits false dreams to ascend to the upper air.

The commonest ivory tower is that of the average man, the state of passivity towards experience.

I wonder, when women who buy beautiful ivory jewelry fasten those elaborate pendants around their throats, if they are choked by sadness.

The sound was pure and sweet as water, bright as lemons. It was like no music I had ever heard before. It had warmth as a fire does, a texture and weight like polished ivory. It

Only humans, cursed with the knowledge of their own mortality and that of those whom they loved, were truly alone; each trapped in an ivory tower of skull and bone peeking out through the windows of the soul.     THE

Pearl's temper absolutely unbearable, and caused her to break her ivory hair-brush upon her maid's shoulders.

Additionally, the king made a great throne of ivory and overlaid it with pure gold.

For the king had the ships of Tarshish at sea with Hiramís fleet, and once every three years the ships of Tarshish would arrive bearing gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.

Additionally, the king made a great throne of ivory and overlaid it with pure gold.

For the king had the ships of Tarshish that went with Hiramís servants, and once every three years the ships of Tarshish would arrive bearing gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.

All your garments are fragrant with myrrh and aloes and cassia; from palaces of ivory the harps make you glad.

Of oaks from Bashan they made your oars; of wood from the coasts of Cyprus they made your deck, inlaid with ivory.

The men of Dedan were your clients; many coastlands were your market; they paid you with ivory tusks and ebony.

I will tear down the winter house along with the summer house; the houses of ivory will also perish, and the great houses will come to an end,” declares the LORD.