Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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.

Katherine Dunham

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

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.

Julie Harris

There are wonderful museums with lots of photographs of 1920's musicals.

Neil MacGregor

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.

Newt Gingrich

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

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.

Martin Filler

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.

Mark Twain

Christianity will doubtless still survive in the earth ten centuries hence- stuffed and in a museum.

Mikhail Gorbachev

If people don't like Marxism, they should blame the British Museum.

Pierre Loti

I do not exactly remember at what period I started my museum which absorbed so much of my time.

Giorgio de Chirico

One must picture everything in the world as an enigma, and live in the world as if in a vast museum of strangeness.

Mick Jagger

Americans are funny people: first you shock them, then they put you in a museum.

Mason Cooley

A Museum of fetishes would give special attention to the history of underwear.

Mason Cooley

The grand style is available now only in old poems, museums, and parodies.

Mason Cooley

In the museums, everything is in quotation marks.

Michael Chabon

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.

Friedrich Engels

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.

John Archibald Wheeler

This is *our* Universe, our museum of wonder and beauty, our cathedral.

Tim Cook

I love museums. But I don't want to live in one.

Willard Van Orman Quine

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.

Renzo Piano

A museum is a place where one should lose one's head.

Robert Barry

The first place I try to go when I have free time is the museums. I'm a big museum person.

Robert Smithson

History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy

Robert Smithson

Museums are tombs, and it looks like everything is turning into a museum.

Roger Caras

Some of our greatest historical and artistic treasures we place in museums; others, we take for walks.

Yogi Berra

I'm lucky. Usually you're dead to get your own museum, but I'm still alive to see mine.

Zaha Hadid

There are so many great galleries and museums in London, but they can be very crowded during the day.

Zaha Hadid

I don't particularly like showing furniture on pedestals, but for whatever reasons you always have to in museums.

Vivienne Westwood

I do not approve of museums trying just to get people to come in. Whistler was very, very clear on this.

Werner Herzog

If you go to Florence, it has all surface beauty, but like Venice, it's simply a museum of Renaissance times. Los Angeles is raw, uncouth and bizarre, but it's a place of substance. It has more new horizons than any other place.

Wayne White

Puppets are pure form then ideas for performance come out of that. It's always the form and the visuals and that's why I like to make puppets in a gallery or museum. They're not often in those contexts.

Salvador Dali

Instead of stubbornly attempting to use surrealism for purposes of subversion, it is necessary to try to make of surrealism something as solid, complete and classic as the works of museums.