Famous Quotes & Sayings

Antony Gormley

It is as much the conversations between objects as between us and objects that make museums so valuable.

Bill McKibben

The earth is a museum of divine intent.

Bill Maher

New Rule: Since our new national position on science is, "Screw it, we prefer witchcraft," let's not just retire the Space Shuttle Atlantis. Let's drive it to one of the five stupidest States and have the locals beat it with sticks. Putting it in a museum is too dangerous. Someone could steal it, fly it into space and notice we revolve around the sun.

Diego Maradona

Pele should go back to the museum.

Bjorn Ulvaeus

There is a very vibrant cultural scene in Stockholm. There are lots of places where there are concerts, and there are loads of museums and theaters.

Brad Pitt

It's a lovely experience walking around a museum by yourself.

Alain de Botton

We used to build temples, and museums are about as close as secular society dares to go in facing up to the idea that a good building can change your life (and a bad one ruin it).

Charles Darwin

The noble science of Geology loses glory from the extreme imperfection of the record. The crust of the earth with its embedded remains must not be looked at as a well-filled museum, but as a poor collection made at hazard and at rare intervals.

Daniel Handler

Stealing, of course, is a crime, and a very impolite thing to do. But like most impolite things, it is excusable under certain circumstances. Stealing is not excusable if, for instance, you are in a museum and you decide that a certain painting would look better in your house, and you simply grab the painting and take it there. But if you were very, very hungry, and you had no way of obtaining money, it would be excusable to grab the painting, take it to your house, and eat it.

David Hume

Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity.

William Shakespeare

No reckoning made, but sent to my account with all my imperfections on my head.

Beyonce Knowles

My message behind this album was finding the beauty in imperfection.

Augusten Burroughs

Imperfections are attractive when their owners are happy with them.

Juvenal

What day is so festal it fails to reveal some theft?

Jane Austen

The power of doing any thing with quickness is always much prized by the possessor, and often without any attention to the imperfection of the performance. - Mr Darcy

Dana Delany

I have faith in my imperfections!

Brene Brown

Imperfections are not inadequacies; they are reminders that we're all in this together.

Diane Kruger

With modeling, you pose. You want to look your best all the time. With acting, you have to be aware of the camera, but the more you show your imperfections, the better you're going to be.

Andrew Ferguson

Incoherence is a common hazard for journalists who dabble in ethical judgments.

Sam Snead

Of the mental hazards, being scared is the worst. When you get scared, you get tense.

John Milton

United thoughts and counsels, equal hope And hazard in the glorious enterprise.

John Rawls

The hazards of the generalized prisoner's dilemma are removed by the match between the right and the good.

Henry Mintzberg

The prime occupational hazard of a manager is superficiality.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

He always considered death an unavoidable professional hazard.

Laurie Garrett

We can see hazards approaching and we have time to actually do something.

Hans Jonas

Never must the existence or the essence of man as a whole be made a stake in the hazards of action.

David Boothe

Effectively reporting seismic hazards considerably reduces vulnerability to it, if not totally eliminates it,