Museum Quotes
322 Museum quotes by 268 unique authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Poverty does not belong in civilized human society. Its proper place is in a museum. That's where it will be.
— Muhammad Yunus
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I guess it started in London, the night our dad blew up the British museum.
— Rick Riordan
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I’d been to the British museum before. In fact I’ve been in more museums than I like to admit—it makes me sound like a total…
— Rick Riordan
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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
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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
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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
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Dublin City was quiet when they reached the Waxwork Museum, as if it was holding its breath.
— Derek Landy
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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
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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
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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
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If I waved that in front of a museum curator, he'd promptly lose control of his salivary glands.
— Kevin Hearne
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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
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So that’s our approach. Very simple, and we’re really shooting for Museum of Modern Art quality. The way we’re running the company, the product design,…
— Walter Isaacson
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Paris was a museum displaying exactly itself.
— Jeffrey Eugenides
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Museum Quotes
268 authors contributed a total of 322 Museum Quotes, led by these top contributors: