#ivory

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. ↗

— Samuel Morse

#dollars #engage #engaged #everybody #five

If I was an eccentric old spinster in a Merchant Ivory movie, I'd want to share my lovely cottage with Holly and that's the truth. I'd do the cooking and leave the decorating to her, and we'd be inseparable. ↗

— Lisa Samson

#merchant-ivory #movies #spinster #love

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. ↗

— Leslie Caron

#comes #correct #direct #finds #first

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

#gown #ivory-hands #miss-hale #muslin #pink

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. ↗

— Earl Hines

#audience #back #challenge #deep #get

I don't want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward. ↗

— Billie Joe Armstrong

#i #inward #ivory #just #live

I had never before thought of how awful the relationship must be between the musician and his instrument. He has to fill it, this instrument, with the breath of life, his own. He has to make it do what he wants it to do. And a piano is just a piano. It's made out of so much wood and wires and little hammers and big ones, and ivory. While there's only so much you can do with it, the only way to find this out is to try; to try and make it do everything. ↗

— James Baldwin

#everything #instrument #ivory-tower #life #music

I wash my face every night with Ivory soap, and I don't wear much makeup. ↗

— Brandy Norwood

#every night #face #i #ivory #makeup

When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter. ↗

— Logan P. Smith

#come #downstairs #gutter #idealists #into

If you could have walked on the planet before humans lived here, maybe the Ivory Coast would have seemed more beautiful than La Côte d'Azur. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#dejan-stojanovic #earth #french-riviera #humans #ivory-coast