![I’d been to the British museum before. In fact I’ve been in more museums than I like to admit—it makes me sound like a total geek. [That’s Sadie in the background, yelling I am a total geek. Thanks, Sis.]](/assets/img/quote-photos/id-been-to-the-british-museum-before-in-fact-ive-been-in-more-museums-than-i-l.jpg)
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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
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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
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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
yelling talking laughing
It probably does make it more difficult to enjoy a good laugh at someone who's onstage, seemingly yelling at you. But I'm not yelling at the audience, I'm yelling at the world. It genuinely sucks if people are taking it that way. But I'm not talking to individuals. David Cross
yelling want biographies
It was all those biographies in me yelling, 'We want out. We want to tell you what we've done to you.' Bernard Malamud
yelling projectors
Stop yelling at the movie, you ain’t never gonna change it like that. Go change the movie in the projector. You are the projector. David Icke
yelling vegetables rushing
Mr. Stock came out of the competition tent carrying his zeppelin marrow on one shoulder and demanding to know what was going on. When he saw the hordes advancing on Aidan, he charged off that way, whirling the great vegetable. The Puck, who was rushing behind the horde, yelling at them to grab Aidan and kill Rolf, was Mr. Stock's first victim. The marrow caught him THOCK! on the side of the head. It laid the Puck out cold on the grass, but the mighty vegetable remained intact, mottled and glossy Diana Wynne Jones
yelling people television
Twitter is a kind of verbalization of people yelling at their television sets or gnashing their teeth at the newspaper. Anthony Weiner
yelling tvs
Instead of yelling at a TV set, I get to talk. Art Spiegelman
yelling people culture
Instead of yelling your opinion, or telling people to shut up, or engaging in this clickbait-internet culture, have a dialogue with someone and ask people questions and listen to what they have to say. Aziz Ansari
yelling guy leader
Leadership is something you earn, something you're chosen for. You can't come in yelling, 'I'm your leader!' If it happens, it's because the other guys respect you. Ben Roethlisberger
yelling echoes world
Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down it and all you hear are echoes of some idiot yelling nonsense down a hole. Adam Duritz
facts doe forsake
Is it not an amazing fact that while others leave us and forsake us, that God never does? Charles Spurgeon
facts matter vulgar
Fact is based upon vulgar matter. Charles Olson
facts wealth affluent
The fact is that, except for those very few whose wealth is overwhelmingly or entirely inherited, the more affluent have usually worked harder than the less affluent. Dennis Prager
facts opinion illusion
It is a curious fact that of all the illusions that beset mankind none is quite so curious as that tendency to suppose that we are mentally and morally superior to those who differ from us in opinion. Elbert Hubbard
facts good truth
For me, the facts in anything are always secondary. You don't lie convincingly with the truth. You lie convincingly with being a good liar. Stephen Graham Jones
facts good means perspective record
From our perspective the facts are it's a good year, but by no means a record flow.
facts
If a retrial is scheduled we will be right back with the same facts.
facts human intense value vision
The only human value of anything, writing included, is intense vision of the facts. William Williams
facts yeats wilde
The sad fact is that I love Dickens and Donne and Keats and Eliot and Forster and Conrad and Fitzgerald and Kafka and Wilde and Orwell and Waugh and Marvell and Greene and Sterne and Shakespeare and Webster and Swift and Yeats and Joyce and Hardy, really, really love them. It’s just that they don’t love me back. David Nicholls