Quotes about muse
muse not-interested knows
Everybody knows that I don't have a muse. I'm not interested in that. Miuccia Prada
museums remember periods
I do not exactly remember at what period I started my museum which absorbed so much of my time. Pierre Loti
museums perfect quests
A woman's quest in life should be to find the perfect apartment. And I have found the perfect apartment. The perfect apartment is the first floor of the Metropolitan Museum. With a sofa. Fran Lebowitz
museums paris
Paris was a museum displaying exactly itself. Jeffrey Eugenides
muse traveller wide
Tell me, O muse, of travellers far and wide Homer
museums association spinning
The society that will organize production on the basis of a free and equal association of the producers will put the whole machinery of the state where it will then belong: into the museum of antiquities, by the side of the spinning wheel and the bronze axe. Friedrich Engels
museums wonder cathedrals
This is *our* Universe, our museum of wonder and beauty, our cathedral. John Archibald Wheeler
museums mind custodians
Museums are custodians of epiphanies, and these epiphanies enter the central nervous system and deep recesses of the mind. George Lois
museums berlin eastern
I like museums in Berlin a lot, especially in the eastern part. They're extraordinarily good. Elliott Erwitt
museums funeral feelings
I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral. John Burroughs
museums world becoming
The world's becoming a museum of socialist failures. John Dos Passos
museums long lasts
If I went to somewhere busy, I wouldn't last very long. I can't go to a museum - I'll last 10 or 15 minutes in a museum. The problem is that when one person asks for a photograph, then someone sees a flash goes off, then everyone else sort of... it's sort of like a domino effect. Emma Watson
museums opponents election
I am making a collection of the things my opponents have found me to be and, when this election is over, I am going to open a museum and put them on display. Lyndon B. Johnson
museums our-lives
A visit to a museum is a search for beauty, truth, and meaning in our lives. Go to museums as often as you can. Maira Kalman
museums palaces radical
In museums and palaces we are alternate radicals and conservatives. Henry James
museums air trying
We have a group of friends of the museum who try to raise, if they can, periodically something to help us. Of course, the main thing about a building like this is its upkeep. It needs central heating and it needs central air conditioning. Katherine Dunham
museums should-have people
Black people should have recognition for themselves and their backgrounds and their relationships with other people in the world and thus lose some of their alienation. This museum has certainly stood for that in this town.
museums sometimes empty
Sometimes I feel like a caretaker of a museum -- a huge, empty museum where no one ever comes, and I'm watching over it for no one but myself. Haruki Murakami
museums self intellectual
The Museum is not meant either for the wanderer to see by accident or for the pilgrim to see with awe. It is meant for the mere slave of a routine of self- education to stuff himself with every sort of incongruous intellectual food in one indigestible meal. Gilbert K. Chesterton
museums water house
Until the Eighties, Oslo was a rather boring town, but it's changed a lot, and is now much more cosmopolitan. If I go downtown, I visit the harbour to see the tall ships and the ferries, and to admire the modern architecture such as the Opera House or the new Astrup Fearnley Museum on the water's edge. Jo Nesbo
museums records curator
A record is a concert without halls and a museum whose curator is the owner. Glenn Gould
museums perfect
Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum. Erich Maria Remarque
museums people firsts
Americans are funny people: first you shock them, then they put you in a museum. Mick Jagger
museums liberty citizens
The British Museum was founded with a civic purpose: to allow the citizen, through reasoned inquiry and comparison, to resist the certainties that endanger free society and are still among the greatest threats to our liberty. Neil MacGregor
museums america holocaust
The folks who want to build this mosque, who are really radical Islamists, who want to triumphfully prove they can build a mosque next to a place where 3,000 Americans were killed by radical Islamists. Those folks don't have any interest in reaching out to the community. They're trying to make a case about supremacy... This happens all the time in America. Nazis don't have the right to put up a sign next to the Holocaust Museum in Washington. We would never accept the Japanese putting up a site next to Pearl Harbor. Newt Gingrich
museums holocaust mosques
Nazis don't have the right to put up a sign next to the Holocaust Museum in Washington. We would never accept the Japanese putting up a site next to Pearl Harbor. There's no reason for us to accept a mosque next to the World Trade Center.
museums history giving
A Museum of fetishes would give special attention to the history of underwear. Mason Cooley
museums style parody
The grand style is available now only in old poems, museums, and parodies.
museums quotation-marks mark
In the museums, everything is in quotation marks.
museums canvas bedroom
There was something unmistakably exultant about the mess that Rosa had made. Her bedroom-studio was at once the canvas, journal, museum, and midden of her life. She did not “decorate” it; she infused it. Michael Chabon
museums people
These are the people who are going to see the pictures in my museum. Norton Simon
museums morgues louvre
The Louvre is a morgue; you go there to identify your friends. Jean Cocteau
museums years people
Bilbao opened in 1997. It was only ten years later that I was asked to do another museum. A lot of other people got work because of Bilbao. Frank Gehry