Saint Jerome Quote by Italo Calvino Download Open image ““In museums I always enjoy stopping at the Saint Jeromes.”” — Italo Calvino ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Saint Jerome
“Jerome has merited hell rather than heaven for it-so little would I dare to recognize or call him a saint.” — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“I love museums more than any other institution the human race has invented. Museum people are always overworked and underpaid, and they all deserve… — Robert T. Bakker Copy Share Image
“Some of our greatest historical and artistic treasures we place with curators in museums; others we take for walks.” — Roger Caras Copy Share Image
“I've never been somewhere I belonged, but there are places where I think I could be happy. Like San Francisco. Well, do art museums… — Heather Demetrios Copy Share Image
“I walked down past the Lycée Henri Quatre and the ancient church of St.-Étienne-du-Mont and the windswept Place du Panthéon and cut in for… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“You live in the greatest museum imaginable. Isn't it time you left the lobby and took a look at some of the incredible exhibits?” — Ron Lizzi Copy Share Image
“The church is not a museum for saints it's a hospital for sinners.” — Abigail Van Buren Copy Share Image
“Jerome doesn't have a clue. He in fact avoids the poets, with their petty feuds and righteous poverty. Endlessly competitive and introspective, they live… — Chris Kraus Copy Share Image
“Museums are the anthropological screened porches of suburbia. You can be near something great, but not actually personally experience it.” — S. Kelley Harrell Copy Share Image
“(one would say yes, if not every day, at least fairly regularly), whether only for yourself or also for others (often only for yourself,… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“The Great Khan tried to concentrate on the game: but now it was the game’s reason that eluded him. The end of every game… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“Or else you can say, like the camel driver who took me there: "I arrived here in my first youth, one morning, many people… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“The naked man had lost hope now; he would never be able to return to the earth's surface;he would never leave the bottom of… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“The art of writing tales consists in an ability to draw the rest of life from the little one has understood of it; but… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“I ask you to come down to earth," said the Baron in a calm, rather faint voice, "and to take up the duties of… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
The unconscious is the ocean of the unsayable, of what has been expelled from the land of language, removed as a result of ancient… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“... KUBLAI: We have proved that if we were here, we would not be. POLO: And here, in fact, we are.” — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“And yet, in Raissa, at every moment there is a child in a window who laughs seeing a dog that has jumped on a… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“Ludmilla, now you are being read. Your body is being subjected to a systematic reading, through channels of tactile information, visual, olfactory, and not… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“Once the process of falsification is set in motion, it won't stop. We're in a country where everything that can be falsified has been… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“Your case gives me new hope," I said to him. "With me, more and more often I happen to pick up a novel that… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“One person looks around and see a universe created by a God who watches over its long unfurling, marking the fall of sparrows and… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
“Suddenly, from all the green around you, something-you don't know what-has disappeared; you feel it creeping closer to the window, in total silence. From… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Even some of his commissions that were completed, or almost so—Ginevra de’ Benci and the Mona Lisa, for example—were never delivered to clients. Leonardo… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“And why is Saint Paula a Saint? She dumps her four kids at a convent. She runs off to Hajira with Saint Jerome. How… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
