Quotes about muse
museums people doe
We live in what virtually amounts to a museum - which does not happen to a lot of people. Prince Philip
museums nymphs tree
What I like so much about Corot is that he can say everything with a bit of tree; and it was Corot himself that I found in the museum of Naples - in the simplicity of the work of Pompeii and the Egyptians. These priestesses in their silver-grey tunics are just like Corot's nymphs. Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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 play magic
If there are no films or plays of interest to me, I don't go. I know how to go to a museum or a library or pick up a good magazine or I can watch the sun set. I know how to live. There's a whole creation out there full of magic and wonder to be explored. Phylicia Rashad
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 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. Katherine Dunham
museums wonderful photograph
There are wonderful museums with lots of photographs of 1920's musicals. Julie Harris
muse not-sure
Unfortunately Seattle is my muse, for the better or worse of Seattle - I'm not sure. Maria Semple
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. Newt Gingrich
museums tasks generations
The most basic task of any museum must be the protection of works of cultural significance entrusted to its care for the edification and pleasure of future generations. Martin Filler
museums earth christianity
Christianity will doubtless still survive in the earth ten centuries hence- stuffed and in a museum. Mark Twain
museums people blame
If people don't like Marxism, they should blame the British Museum. Mikhail Gorbachev
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 world enigma
One must picture everything in the world as an enigma, and live in the world as if in a vast museum of strangeness. Giorgio de Chirico
museums people firsts
Americans are funny people: first you shock them, then they put you in a museum. Mick Jagger
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. Mason Cooley
museums quotation-marks mark
In the museums, everything is in quotation marks. Mason Cooley
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 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 want
I love museums. But I don't want to live in one. Tim Cook
museums labels language
Uncritical semantics is the myth of a museum in which the exhibits are meanings and the words are labels. To switch languages is to change the labels. Willard Van Orman Quine
museums should loses
A museum is a place where one should lose one's head. Renzo Piano
museums trying firsts
The first place I try to go when I have free time is the museums. I'm a big museum person. Robert Barry
muse creation process
The Muse visits during the process of creation, not before. Roger Ebert