Museums Quotes

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This is the worst problem with living history museums. They always leave the best parts out. Like typhus. And opium. And scarlet letters. Shunning. Witch-burning. — Chuck Palahniuk
The artist is a collector of things imaginary or real. He accumulates things with the same enthusiasm that a little boy stuffs his pockets. The… — Paul Rand
I sleep during the day. I still dream about drinking and drugs. Sometimes I wake to a hang-over, sometimes I wake to a trickle of… — James Frey
Museums and bookstores should feel, I think, like vacant lots - places where the demands on us are our own demands, where the spirit can… — John Updike
I believe profoundly in the importance of museums; I would go as far as to say that you can judge a society by the quality… — Richard Fortey
All over the world major museums have bowed to the influence of Disney and become theme parks in their own right. The past, whether Renaissance… — J. G. Ballard
forgive me also that I didn't fight like Lord Byron for the happiness of captive peoples that I watched only risings of the moon and… — Zbigniew Herbert
perhaps I possess a certain Midwestern sensibility that I inherited from my mother and her parents, a sensibility that Warren Buffet seems to share: that… — Barack Obama
Are you all right, Sir?" asked Hezekiah. "Just fighting over old battles in my mind," said John. "It's the problem with age. You have all… — Orson Scott Card
Once poverty is gone, we'll need to build museums to display its horrors to future generations. They'll wonder why poverty continued so long in human… — Muhammad Yunus
I parked in front of the Field Museum under a NO PARKING sign. There were a couple of actual spots I could have used, but… — Jim Butcher
Some make their worlds without knowing it. Their universes are just sesame seeds and three-day weekends and dial tones and skinned knees and physics and… — Jonathan Safran Foer
I've wanted you from the moment I first saw you in the museum. Before that. I wanted every part of you from the first time… — Shana Abe
Iâ€™m curious about things that people arenâ€™t supposed to seeâ€”so, for example, I liked going to the British Museum, but I would like it better… — Audrey Niffenegger
Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum. — Erich Maria Remarque
In a museum in Havana, there are two skulls of Christopher Columbus, one when he was a boy and one when he was a man — Mark Twain
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

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