Quotes about museum
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 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 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 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 design want
I might want to open a hotel and design all the rooms. Or maybe a museum that lets me curate all the events. Theophilus London
museums government theatre
Some government expenditure actually makes a profit. Our theatre leads the world. Loads of tourists must be attracted by the fact that you could spend a week in London doing nothing but visit superb museums and galleries, free. Simon Hoggart
museums yelling facts
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.] Rick Riordan
museums modern function
We are similar to a museum. My function is to present old masterpieces in modern frames. Rudolf Bing
museums lucky alive
I'm lucky. Usually you're dead to get your own museum, but I'm still alive to see mine. Yogi Berra
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 london gallery
There are so many great galleries and museums in London, but they can be very crowded during the day. Zaha Hadid
museums furniture pedestal
I don't particularly like showing furniture on pedestals, but for whatever reasons you always have to in museums.