Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barry McGee

The parts of graffiti I like are really antagonizing still - it's not something that a museum would really embrace.

Charles Darwin

The noble science of Geology loses glory from the extreme imperfection of the record. The crust of the earth with its embedded remains must not be looked at as a well-filled museum, but as a poor collection made at hazard and at rare intervals.

Alain de Botton

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 good building can change your life (and a bad one ruin it).

Edward Abbey

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 them read and talked about.

Dear Abbey

A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.

Adam Carolla

If you spend your life walking through somebody else's museum, you never find out whether you're Rembrandt or not.

Damien Hirst

Museums are for dead artists. I'd never show my work in the Tate. You'd never get me in that place.

Conan O'Brien

Republicans have called for a National African-American Museum. The plan is being held up by finding a location that isn't in their neighborhood.

Daniel Barenboim

The ear plays the role of the guide in the museum in the concert I'm taking now. We don't have an oral guide, we have to provide it ourselves. One reason why active listening is absolutely essential.

Augusten Burroughs

Imperfections are attractive when their owners are happy with them.

Diane Kruger

With modeling, you pose. You want to look your best all the time. With acting, you have to be aware of the camera, but the more you show your imperfections, the better you're going to be.

Eileen Caddy

Do not waste time trying to overcome your weaknesses and failures. Simply raise your consciousness, transcend and free your thoughts from limitation and illusion, and find within the very center of your being a wholeness and completeness! Cease wallowing in your imperfections and never accept limitations! Aim high, and you will get there. It is only your thoughts that hold you back.

Daisaku Ikeda

It is much more valuable to look for the strength in others. You can gain nothing by criticizing their imperfections.

Drew Barrymore

If you're going to go through hell... I suggest you come back learning something.

Ambrose Bierce

SATIRE, n. An obsolete kind of literary composition in which the vices and follies of the author's enemies were expounded with imperfect tenderness.

Ambrose Bierce

DIGESTION, n. The conversion of victuals into virtues. When the process is imperfect, vices are evolved instead - a circumstance from which that wicked writer, Dr. Jeremiah Blenn, infers that the ladies are the greater sufferers from dyspepsia.

Jane Austen

The power of doing any thing with quickness is always much prized by the possessor, and often without any attention to the imperfection of the performance. - Mr Darcy

Brene Brown

Imperfections are not inadequacies; they are reminders that we're all in this together.

Hans Jonas

Never must the existence or the essence of man as a whole be made a stake in the hazards of action.

Andrew Ferguson

Incoherence is a common hazard for journalists who dabble in ethical judgments.

Laurie Garrett

We can see hazards approaching and we have time to actually do something.

David Boothe

Effectively reporting seismic hazards considerably reduces vulnerability to it, if not totally eliminates it,

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

He always considered death an unavoidable professional hazard.

Henry Mintzberg

The prime occupational hazard of a manager is superficiality.

John Rawls

The hazards of the generalized prisoner's dilemma are removed by the match between the right and the good.

John Milton

United thoughts and counsels, equal hope And hazard in the glorious enterprise.

John Henry Newman

If we are intended for great ends, we are called to great hazards.