Museum Quotes

322 Museum quotes by 268 unique authors

After dinner or lunch or whatever it was -- with my crazy 12-hour night I was no longer sure what was what -- I said,… — Charles Bukowski
I believe in walking out of a museum before the paintings you've seen begin to run together. How else can you carry anything away with… — Elizabeth Kostova
I had made this mistake once before, on a school trip to the Victoria and Albert Museum, when I followed a sign marked WOMEN, thinking… — David Nicholls
Last week we went to the museum. A whole whale is hanging from the ceiling. Bigger than big! OK, have you seen a Volkswagon car… — Sapphire
Poverty does not belong in civilized human society. Its proper place is in a museum. That's where it will be. — Muhammad Yunus
I guess it started in London, the night our dad blew up the British museum. — Rick Riordan
Iâ€™d been to the British museum before. In fact Iâ€™ve been in more museums than I like to admitâ€”it makes me sound like a total… — Rick Riordan
My high school guidance counselor, Mrs. Inverholl, once had me take an aptitude test to figure out my future. The number one job recommendation for… — Jodi Picoult
Life is your art. An open, aware heart is your camera. A oneness with your world is your film. Your bright eyes and easy smile… — Ansel Adams
There was something unmistakably exultant about the mess that Rosa had made. Her bedroom-studio was at once the canvas, journal, museum, and midden of her… — Michael Chabon
Dublin City was quiet when they reached the Waxwork Museum, as if it was holding its breath. — Derek Landy
The trouble with you, Vic," he said, "is that you think of the world as a sort of huge museum with too many visitors allowed… — John Banville
In the coming days and weeks, Laila would scramble frantically to commit it all to memory, what happened next. Like an art lover running out… — Khaled Hosseini
You're like a witness. You're the one who goes to the museum and looks at the paintings. I mean the paintings are there and you're… — Julio Cortazar
If I waved that in front of a museum curator, he'd promptly lose control of his salivary glands. — Kevin Hearne
You want to know how I think art should be taught to children? Take them to a museum and say, 'This is art, and you… — Steve Martin
So thatâ€™s our approach. Very simple, and weâ€™re really shooting for Museum of Modern Art quality. The way weâ€™re running the company, the product design,… — Walter Isaacson
Paris was a museum displaying exactly itself. — Jeffrey Eugenides
Ben remembered reading about curators in "Wonderstruck", and thought about what id meant to curate your own life, as his dad had done here. What… — Brian Selznick
I had hardly expected so dolichocephalic a skull or such well-marked supra-orbital development. Would you have any objection to my running my finger along your… — Arthur Conan Doyle

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