Ivory – Quotes

Beautiful and rich is

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 … Read more

Beneath the stars the

Beneath the stars the lake lay dark and sombre, Stead wrote, but on its shores gleamed and glowed in golden radiance the ivory city, beautiful as a poet’s dream, silent as a city of the dead. Erik Larson

The library is not,

The library is not, as some would have it, a place for the retiring of disposition or faint of heart. It is not an ivory tower or a quiet room in a sanitarium facing away from the afternoon sun. It is, rather, a command center, a power base. A board room, a war room. An … Read more

Let the fairy tale

Let the fairy tale begin on a winter’s morning, then, with one drop of blood newly-fallen on the ivory snow: a drop as bright as a clear-cut ruby, red as a single spot of claret on the lace cuff. Ellen Kushner

She stood by the

She stood by the tea-table in a light-coloured muslin gown, which had a good deal of pink about it. She looked as if she was not attending to the conversation, but solely busy with the tea-cups, among which her round ivory hands moved with pretty, noiseless, daintiness. Elizabeth Gaskell

Earth Is Enough. We

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 … Read more

Beautiful and rich is

Beneath the stars the

The library is not,

Let the fairy tale

She stood by the

Earth Is Enough. We

I always challenge myself.

Language evolves and moves

Liberace was certainly master

Many live in the