Museum Quotes
322 quotes by 268 authors
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O man, I beseech you do not treat God's promises as if they were curiosities for a museum; but use them as every day sources…
— Charles Spurgeon
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I love the Amazon. I just wanna to cry every time I go there both for the majestic beauty and for the fact that it's…
— Chris Kilham
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The deep sea is the largest museum on earth, it contains more history than all the museums on land combined, and yet we're only now…
— Robert Ballard
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Prose is a museum, where all the old weapons of poetry are kept
— Thomas Ernest Hulme
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One must picture everything in the world as an enigma, and live in the world as if in a vast museum of strangeness.
— Giorgio de Chirico
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Every innovation scraps its immediate predecessor and retrieves still older figures – it causes floods of antiques or nostalgic art forms and stimulates the search…
— Marshall McLuhan
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Peace is not just the absence of war and conflict; it goes well beyond that. Peace must be fostered within the individual, within the family…
— Mata Amritanandamayi
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DEI without Dale Earnhardt Jr. is a museum.
— Tony Stewart
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We open our mouths and out flow words whose ancestries we do not even know. We are walking lexicons. In a single sentence of idle…
— Penelope Lively
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Art should be created for life, not for the museum
— Jean Nouvel
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If you see a wonderful archaic Greek marble object in a museum, it's not only that it's beautiful, but what comes to your mind is…
— Michael Steinhardt
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Avicenna California...Museum of my twisted youth, vault of my dearest and most disgusting memories.
— Peter S. Beagle
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The biggest looters are the British Museum.
— Lowkey
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Unless created as freestanding works, quotations resemble "found" art. They are analogous, say, to a piece of driftwood identified as formally interesting enough to be…
— Gary Saul Morson
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An anthology of quotations is a museum of utterances.
— Gary Saul Morson
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I don't decide where I live. My wife decides. She's a curator of contemporary art, and she works at an art museum, so we go…
— John Green
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When you're working on a film, it's almost like photographing paintings at a museum. You're photographing somebody else's world. I just try and interpret it…
— Mary Ellen Mark
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Japan suffered terribly from the atomic bomb but never adopted a pose of moral superiority, implying: 'We would never have done it!' The Japanese know…
— George Mikes
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I'd love to open a private museum in Paris, London, or New York, but I don't have the money. If I were Bill Gates or…
— Jean Pigozzi
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If there are no films or plays of interest to me, I don't go. I know how to go to a museum or a library…
— Phylicia Rashad
Who Wrote These Museum Quotes
268 authors contributed a total of 322 Museum Quotes, led by these top contributors: