Quotes of: British-museum Keyword

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The Museum of Innocence

I went to the museum where they had all the heads and arms from the statues that are in all the other museums.

Steven Wright

I spend all day in museums. I even eat my lunch in the museum, and I take a nap for one hour there.

John Gokongwei

Outside museums, in noisy public squares, people look at people. Inside museums, we leave that realm and enter what might be called the group-mind, getting quiet to look at art.

Jerry Saltz

Perfect should never be a goal. Perfect just happens if you let it.

The Museum of Intangible Things

The best museums and museum exhibits about science or technology give you the feeling that, hey, this is interesting, but maybe I could do something here, too.

Paul Allen

What would I put in a museum? Probably a museum! That's an amusing relic of our past.

John Hodgman

I know I'm British. I haven't spent much time in the U.K., but my parents are British, my family heritage is British, so if I wasn't British, what would I be? I am British.

Chris Froome

We have created indoor installations inside museums, like the Wrapped Floor at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago in 1968, and not monumental at all by any standards.

Christo

My favorite museums are things like the Frick Museum in New York and the Huntington Hartford in Pasadena where it's someone's home that you walk through.

Larry Ellison

A great department store, easily reached, open at all hours, is more like a good museum of art than any of the museums we have yet established.

John Cotton Dana

After all, a woman who doesn't love cats is never going to be make a man happy.

The Museum of Innocence

Words are fossilized butterfly wings, pretty to look at sometimes, but only good for Museums. I want to miserably burn down the Museums.

Jeremiah Walton

Museums provide places of relaxation and inspiration. And most importantly, they are a place of authenticity. We live in a world of reproductions - the objects in museums are real. It's a way to get away from the overload of digital technology.

Thomas P. Campbell

Museums do not share their collections with other museums unless they get something in exchange. The Metropolitan will deal with the Louvre, but will they send their stuff to Memphis? No.

Eli Broad

The great proliferation of museums in the nineteenth century was a product of the marriage of the exhibition as a way of awakening intelligent interest in the visitor with the growth of collections that was associated with empire and middle-class aff...

Dry Store Room No. 1: The Secret Life Of The Natural History Museum

When asked why he wrote the book, Freed said: In the 1980s, I joined the small group of anthropologists who were writing about the history of their subject. I believed that I could add some balance to American anthropological history, and that the be...

Anthropology Unmasked: Museums, Science, and Politics in New York City

I'm going to be frank, Max..." "Of course. All cards on the table." But he gave me a poker smile.

The Counterfeit Murder in the Museum of Man

The moral high ground to which I aspired had turned into a slippery slope.

The Counterfeit Murder in the Museum of Man

Age had not made him less handsome, as is so often the case; it had simply made him less visible.

The Museum of Innocence

The power of things inheres in the memories they gather up inside them, and also in the vicissitudes of our imagination, and our memory--of this there is no doubt.

The Museum of Innocence