Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jo Nesbo

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.

John Dos Passos

The world's becoming a museum of socialist failures.

Lyndon B. Johnson

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.

Maira Kalman

A visit to a museum is a search for beauty, truth, and meaning in our lives. Go to museums as often as you can.

Norton Simon

These are the people who are going to see the pictures in my museum.

Henry James

In museums and palaces we are alternate radicals and conservatives.

Emma Watson

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.

The museum has been here for 38 years.

Sometimes people perceive a museum as intimidating. This is very relaxed.

Mark Spitz

This is a way to get the museum back on its feet.

Katie Johnson

There was this seashell museum - it had every kind of seashell you could imagine.

Jeffrey Eugenides

Paris was a museum displaying exactly itself.

Fran Lebowitz

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.

Jean Cocteau

The Louvre is a morgue; you go there to identify your friends.

Frank Gehry

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.

Erich Maria Remarque

Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.

This was seen as an opportunity to have a museum that is very much from the native perspective.

Jarvis Cocker

I always feel like there are specific things about Houston. There's one museum in particular in Houston. So many of the things that I'm interested in now I can sort of trace back to that museum, which introduced me to them.

Erin Morgenstern

Where do you get your ideas? people ask. Sometimes they’re at the bottoms of cups of tea. Sometimes they’re lurking in my shower. Sometimes they’re waiting patiently in glass cases in museums.

Carolyn Kizer

In some ways painters have been more important in my life than writers. Painters teach you how to see—a faculty that usually isn’t highly developed in poets. Whether you take a walk in the woods with a painter, or go to a museum with one, through them you notice shapes, colors, harmonies, relationships that enhance your own seeing.

Jean Baudrillard

Kitschis one of the major categories of the modern object. Knick-knacks, rustic odds-and-ends, souvenirs, lampshades, and African masks: the kitsch-object is collectively this whole plethora of "trashy," sham or faked objects, this whole museum of junk which proliferates everywhere.... Kitsch is the equivalent to the "cliché" in discourse.

Gertrude Stein

When in a museum, walk slowly but keep walking.

Jim Dale

We talk about theatre museums filled with old costumes and things. What we also need is a theatre museum of the old routines on videotape. We are only the custodians of those techniques, and they should be preserved.

Glenn Gould

A record is a concert without halls and a museum whose curator is the owner.

Pope Francis

We don't need youth museums. But we do need holy young people.

Peter Zumthor

Small museums are great. Big museums are a drag.

Prince Philip

We live in what virtually amounts to a museum - which does not happen to a lot of people.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

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.

George Lois

Museums are custodians of epiphanies, and these epiphanies enter the central nervous system and deep recesses of the mind.

Elliott Erwitt

I like museums in Berlin a lot, especially in the eastern part. They're extraordinarily good.

John Burroughs

I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.

Phylicia Rashad

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.

Haruki Murakami

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.