Museums Quotes

480 quotes by 383 authors

Fewer and fewer Americans possess objects that have a patina, old furniture, grandparents pots and pans - the used things, warm with generations of human… — Susan Sontag
The gold standard, in one form or another, will prevail long after the present rash of national fiats is forgotten or remembered only in currency… — Hans F. Sennholz
We went to the British Museum, and I was looking up my family in the books - pages and pages on it. — Nicholas Lea
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, Iâ€™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
Anyone who has walked through the deserted palaces of Versailles or Vienna realise how much of a part of the life of a nation is… — William Rees-Mogg
Through our own creative experience we came to know that the real tradition in art is not housed only in museums and art galleries and… — Lawren Harris
Our spending priorities are clearly in question when we are increasing bond indebtedness on pet projects such as museums while our infrastructure is allegedly failing.… — Chris McDaniel
Finally, in the Mississippi state Senate, earmarks are often hidden in bond bills, which I have voted against many times, because our bonded indebtedness is… — Chris McDaniel
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
They have our bundles split open in museums / our dresses & shirts at auctions / our languages on tape / our stories in locked… — Chrystos
The heaping together of paintings by Old Masters in museums is a catastrophe; likewise, a collection of a hundred Great Brains makes one big fathead. — Carl Jung
Museums and art stores are also sources of pleasure and inspiration. Doubtless it will seem strange to many that the hand unaided by sight can… — Helen Keller
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

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