Museum Quotes

322 Museum quotes by 268 unique authors

I find it a bit sad that there is no photo of me hanging on the walls in the Berlin Museum at Checkpoint Charlie, — David Hasselhoff
It's a lovely experience walking around a museum by yourself. — Brad Pitt
Reality TV to me is the museum of social decay. — Gary Oldman
If I had to choose a single destination where I'd be held captive for the rest of my time in New York, I’d choose the… — Tim Gunn
If you go to Florence, it has all surface beauty, but like Venice, it's simply a museum of Renaissance times. Los Angeles is raw, uncouth… — Werner Herzog
Speeches are for the younger men who are going places. And I'm not going anyplace except six feet under the floor of that little chapel… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
Nazis don't have the right to put up a sign next to the Holocaust Museum in Washington. We would never accept the Japanese putting up… — Newt Gingrich
Stay in these rooms for years and years, live on forever in a glorious museum. — Lydia Millet
Who else but the maestro of mathematical creativity, Clifford Pickover, to curate a museum of Strange Brains and write biographies of the scientific geniuses who… — Mark Frauenfelder
Most of what we call the classics of world literature suggest artifacts in a wax museum. We have to hire and pay professors to get… — Edward Abbey
A great department store, easily reached, open at all hours, is more like a good museum of art than any of the museums we have… — John Cotton
The world's becoming a museum of socialist failures. — John Dos Passos
The official name of the project is 'Jewish Museum' but I have named it 'Between the Lines' because for me it is about two lines… — Daniel Libeskind
The main function of the museum has been to serve as a pedestal upon which a clique of socialites pose as patrons of the arts — Albert Barnes
The Philadelphia Museum of Art is a house of artistic and intellectual prostitution — Albert Barnes
It is, however, not to the museum, or the lecture-room, or the drawing- school, but to the library, that we must go for the completion… — Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
We sit inert, like dead specimens of some museum, while lessons are pelted at us from on high, like hailstones on flowers. — Rabindranath Tagore
Evolution writ large is the belief that a cloud of hydrogen will spontaneously invent extreme-ultraviolet lithography, perform Swan Lake, and write all the books in… — Fred Reed
If every piece is perfect the room becomes a museum and lifeless. — Nancy Lancaster
The ear plays the role of the guide in the museum in the concert I'm taking now. We don't have an oral guide, we have… — Daniel Barenboim
Many people will say, well, clothes should be worn; but I think people can look at them in public, like seeing a film. I think… — Issey Miyake
I abide in a goodly Museum, Frequented by sages profound: 'Tis a kind of strange mausoleum, Where the beasts that have vanished abound. There's a… — Unknown Author
Gas Lights - Without Oil, Tallow, Wicks or Smoke. It is not necessary to invite attention to the gas lights by which my salon of… — Rembrandt Peale
Nothing seems more like a whorehouse to me than a museum. In it you find the same equivocal aspect, the same frozen quality. — Michel Leiris
Pele should go back to the museum. — Diego Maradona

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