Museums Quotes

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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
In poetically well built museums, formed from the heart's compulsions, we are consoled not by finding in them old objects that we love, but by… — Orhan Pamuk
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
Where do you get your ideas? people ask. Sometimes theyâ€™re at the bottoms of cups of tea. Sometimes theyâ€™re lurking in my shower. Sometimes theyâ€™re… — Erin Morgenstern
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
As I saw it, all my mother's life, my father held her down, like lead strapped to her ankles. She was buoyant by nature; she… — Louise GluÌˆck
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
A dancer should learn from all the arts. Go to museums and look at the paintings. See how they balance things. Everything you do in… — Alicia Alonso
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
The museums of medieval Europe, from Holland to Tuscany, are crammed with instruments and devices upon which the holy men labored devoutly, in order to… — Christopher Hitchens
As for pictures and museums, that don't trouble me. The worst of going abroad is that you've always got to look at things of that… — Margaret Oliphant
You have to love dancing to stick to it. It gives you nothing back, no manuscripts to store away, no paintings to show on walls… — Merce Cunningham
Turning 30 was really big for me. I can get really stuck on 'I don't like this or that about myself.' I've found that the… — Reese Witherspoon
I enjoy living life and I enjoy going to different restaurants and eating my way through a country and going to different museums and learning… — Mila Kunis
Dumbing down takes many forms: art that is good for you, museums that flatter you, universities that increase your self-esteem. Culture, after all, is really… — Denis Dutton
I grew up going to museums. I was privileged to discover art and artists in a very personal way. — Thelma Golden

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