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museums world-literature pay
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. Edward Abbey
museums work
Museums are for dead artists. I'd never show my work in the Tate. You'd never get me in that place. Damien Hirst
museums religion church
A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints. Dear Abbey
museums absorbing
Living is like tearing through a museum. Audrey Hepburn
museums conversation valuable
It is as much the conversations between objects as between us and objects that make museums so valuable. Antony Gormley
museums should
Pele should go back to the museum. Diego Maradona
museums earth divine
The earth is a museum of divine intent. Bill McKibben
museums space atlantis
New Rule: Since our new national position on science is, "Screw it, we prefer witchcraft," let's not just retire the Space Shuttle Atlantis. Let's drive it to one of the five stupidest States and have the locals beat it with sticks. Putting it in a museum is too dangerous. Someone could steal it, fly it into space and notice we revolve around the sun. Bill Maher
museums house would-be
Stealing, of course, is a crime, and a very impolite thing to do. But like most impolite things, it is excusable under certain circumstances. Stealing is not excusable if, for instance, you are in a museum and you decide that a certain painting would look better in your house, and you simply grab the painting and take it there. But if you were very, very hungry, and you had no way of obtaining money, it would be excusable to grab the painting, take it to your house, and eat it. Daniel Handler
should-have perfect church
If I had never joined a church till I had found one that was perfect, I should never have joined one at all; and the moment I did join it, if I had found one, I should have spoiled it, for it would not have been a perfect church after I had become a member of it. Still, imperfect as it is, it is the dearest place on earthto us. Charles Spurgeon
should-have mad fancy
Now this is the point. You fancy me a mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded... Edgar Allan Poe
should-have space good-relationship
The qualities that one needs to be a good goalkeeper are exactly the same as to be a good sculptor. In both professions one should have a good relationship with time and space. Eduardo Chillida
should-have rooms accommodations
I should have considered it wrong to have finished the Frieze before the room for its accommodation and the funds for its completion were available. Edvard Munch
should-have anxiety ships
Without anxiety and illness I should have been like a ship without a rudder.
should-have government religion
We seem to be pariahs alike in the visible and the invisible world, with no foothold anywhere, though by every principle of government and religion we should have an equal place on this planet. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
should-have lawyer kind
I came close to signing Elvis Presley. I offered $25,000 for his contract and they asked for $45,000 and I just didn't have the other $20,000. I should have gotten the Beatles. But one of my lawyers kind of messed up.
should-have cracks citizens
The breaking of so great a thing should make A greater crack: the round world Should have shook lions into civil streets, And citizens to their dens. William Shakespeare
should-have brethren has-beens
Brethren, who are we that God should have been so good to us?
people
It always amazed me that people believed I was this beautiful object. Isabella Rossellini
people
I'm always a little worried when people have met me in person because I'm worried they'll be disappointed.
people
Do people still read before bed? I play 'Words With Friends.' Rick Perlstein
people
People often ask me about my upbringing, and if there was anything particular about it that made me become a cartoonist.
people
I don't think most people know what's going to be in their obituary, but I do.
people
There are not enough people out talking about the President positively. Robert Teeter
people
Some people take the view that we happen by accident. I think that there is something much deeper, of which we have very little inkling at the moment. Roger Penrose
people
My parents were like the kind of people who read the 'Enquirer' and believed everything it said. Kristy Swanson
people
I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour. Malorie Blackman