Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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.

Mick Jagger

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

John Dos Passos

The world's becoming a museum of socialist failures.

John Burroughs

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

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.

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.

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.

Julie Harris

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

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.

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.

John Archibald Wheeler

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Theophilus London

I might want to open a hotel and design all the rooms. Or maybe a museum that lets me curate all the events.

Simon Hoggart

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.

Rick Riordan

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.]

Rudolf Bing

We are similar to a museum. My function is to present old masterpieces in modern frames.