Museum Quotes

322 Museum quotes by 268 unique authors

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 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
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
After all, isn't the purpose of the novel, or of a museum, for that matter, to relate our memories with such sincerity as to transform… — Orhan Pamuk
The man in the shop peered disapprovingly at Evie through the glass. She pumped her arms and legs up and down in imitation of a… — Libba Bray
Her library would have been valuable to a bibliophile except she treated her books execrably. I would rarely open a volume that she had not… — Pat Conroy
I sailed on the cold air currents above the rooftops of Paris. I could see the river, the Louvre Museum, the gardens and palaces. And… — Rick Riordan
I never thought Jazz was meant to be a museum piece like other dead things once considered artistic. — Miles Davis
~I don't always have a lot of energy, but my kids almost always revitalize me. Of course like any working mom, sometimes I'm guilt-ridden. I… — Katie Couric
~I'm not someone who [lives] like, 'OK, this is a museum and you can't sit here and you can't touch this and everything has to… — Heidi Klum
Despite living in an increasingly digital world, there are a few things I still like to keep as physical reminders. So every time I see… — Ruzwana Bashir
At the Museum of Roman Art, the logic of the forms is very much modern. But in spite of that, the idea of the construction… — Rafael Moneo
I went to my first dinosaur hall with my father and twin brother. We went to the American Museum of Natural History, and I was… — David H. Koch
The Frankfurt Museum of Decorative Arts is a handsome building, which takes its cues from the riverside Biedermeier villa next to it, and it is… — Martin Filler
When I was in sixth grade, they slashed the budgets for all of our school art programs, so my grandparents enrolled me in art classes… — Jarrett J. Krosoczka
I created a successful outdoor youth festival - the Liverd festival - against all good advice. It was a great way to explore and investigate… — Natalie Jeremijenko
Even when I was a little girl, I remember going to the Museum of Modern Art. I think my parents took me there once or… — Barbara Kruger
The fact is that the British Museum had a complete specimen of a dodo in their collection up until the 18th century - it was… — Adam Savage

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