Museums Quotes

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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
I guess it started in London, the night our dad blew up the British museum. — Rick Riordan
Iâ€™d been to the British museum before. In fact Iâ€™ve been in more museums than I like to admitâ€”it makes me sound like a total… — Rick Riordan
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
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
I spent an hour looking at pots and carpets in the museums the other day, until the desire to describe them became like the desire… — Virginia Woolf
Real museums are places where Time is transformed into Space. — Orhan Pamuk
I'm extremely profane, unconsciously so, when I see something great for the first time; I don't know why, but beauty and profanity are related to… — Vincent Price
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
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
Yes, yes, I see it all! â€” an enormous social activity, a mighty civilization, a profuseness of science, of art, of industry, of morality, and… — Miguel de Unamuno
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 thatâ€™s our approach. Very simple, and weâ€™re really shooting for Museum of Modern Art quality. The way weâ€™re running the company, the product design,… — Walter Isaacson
We used to build temples, and museums are about as close as secular society dares to go in facing up to the idea that a… — Alain de Botton
Paris was a museum displaying exactly itself. — Jeffrey Eugenides
The book was turned to the page with Anne Frank's name, but what got me about it was the fact that right beneath her name… — John Green

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