Museums Quote by Jeffrey Eugenides Download Open image “Paris was a museum displaying exactly itself.” — Jeffrey Eugenides ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Museums Paris
In Paris, it used to feel like you were living in a museum. As beautiful as it was, it's still limited. But here you… — Isaac Mizrahi Copy Share Image
I think there's tons of life and excitement in Paris. There are lots of old people and young people creating sexy new culture, but… — Rosecrans Baldwin Copy Share Image
One of the maddening things about being a foreigner in France is that hardly anyone in the rest of the world knows what's really… — Pamela Druckerman Copy Share Image
What an immense impression Paris made upon me. It is the most extraordinary place in the world! — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Films featuring museums are on the whole, not serious ones. They are mostly comedies, mild thrillers, romances, and horror movies, with a few disaster… — Suzanne Keene Copy Share Image
“Paris is a city that might well be spoken of in the plural, as the Greeks used to speak of Athens, for there are… — Julien Green Copy Share Image
Museums are like the quiet car of the world. It's a place you can come to escape, where there's authenticity, there's uniqueness, there's calm,… — Thomas P. Campbell Copy Share Image
Paris is a place in which we can forget ourselves, reinvent, expunge the dead weight of our past. — Michael Simkins Copy Share Image
When I look back now, it must have been like Paris was at the time of Le Sacre du Printemps. — David Baker Copy Share Image
I have no favorite museum, but it could be the National Gallery in London; it could be the Palais de Tokyo in Paris. Every… — Alexandre Desplat Copy Share Image
“Only the Lisbon house remained dark, a tunnel, an emptiness, past our smoke and flames.” — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“She had just started living like a grown-up and she'd never felt more vulnerable, frightened or confused in her life.” — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
It's often said that a traumatic experience early in life marks a person forever, pulls her out of line, saying, "Stay there. Don't move. — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“The window was still open,” Mr Lisbon said. “I don’t think we’d ever remembered to shut it. It was all clear to me. I… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
I was aware that you weren't supposed to write about suburbia, that it was undignified in some way, the subject matter not momentous enough.… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“Dr. Armonson stitched up her wrist wounds. Within five minutes of the transfusion he declared her out of danger. Chucking her under the chin,… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“I don't approve of women driving, mind you. And now they get to vote!" He grumbled to himself. "Remember that play we saw ("The… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
I know that attaching memories to books may be going out of the world, but while it lasts, it's a strong record of your… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
I spend most of every day writing. I like to write every day if I can. I don't start extremely early. — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that it oversimplifies feeling. — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
A home is not a museum. It doesn't have to be furnished with Picasso paintings, or Sheraton suites, or Oriental rugs, or Chinese pottery.… — James M. Cain Copy Share Image
Designers shouldn’t design for museums any more than mummies should die for them. — Ralph Caplan Copy Share Image
I shot for French and British Vogue. The British Vogue one featured clothes by Chloe and was shot at Highgate and the John Soane… — Nan Goldin Copy Share Image
The religion of art, like the religion of politics, was born from the ruins of Christianity. Art inherited from the old religion the power… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
The Louvre! The Louvre has me in its clutches. Every time I'm there rich blessings rain down upon me. I am coming to understand… — Paula Modersohn-Becker Copy Share Image
Individually, museums are fine institutions, dedicated to the high values of preservation, education and truth; collectively, their growth in numbers points to the imaginative… — Robert Hewison Copy Share Image
We have created indoor installations inside museums, like the Wrapped Floor at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago in 1968, and not monumental… — Christo Copy Share Image
I do not exactly remember at what period I started my museum which absorbed so much of my time. — Pierre Loti Copy Share Image
Most of my life, I thought that I would end up a novelist. But then, in New York City, after college, I started a… — Jon Spaihts Copy Share Image
The current demoralization of the art world is attributable at least in part to museum interference, ideological and practical, with ongoing creation in art. — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
I love doing normal things - movies, shopping, going out with friends, writing, reading, taking hot bubble baths - that's a big one for… — Christina Aguilera Copy Share Image
I think movies are now like going to a museum and seeing the latest exhibit - people just aren't going. It really is a… — Parker Posey Copy Share Image
