Famous Quotes & Sayings

Renzo Piano

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

Vivienne Westwood

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

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.

Ruzwana Bashir

Despite living in an increasingly digital world, there are a few things I still like to keep as physical reminders. So every time I see an exhibition, I make a pit stop at the museum gift shop to buy a postcard of something that inspired me.

Norton Simon

These are the people who are going to see the pictures in my 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.

William Cohen

For while the threat of nuclear holocaust has been significantly reduced, the world remains a very unsettled and dangerous place.

Roseanne Barr

I was not raised a Zionist, but a socialist, as were most Jews before the Holocaust.

Zach Braff

Without me, Scrubs would be worse than the holocaust. But with me in it, it's turned into the lolocaust.

Zygmunt Bauman

The risk of the Holocaust is not that it will be forgotten, but that it will be embalmed and surrounded by monuments and used to absolve all future sins.

Josef Skvorecky

Arnošt Lustig is one of the leading contemporary Czech fiction writers, and certainly the most important Jewish writer of Bohemia to have survived the Holocaust.

Ellen Goodman

Let's just say that global warming deniers are now on a par with Holocaust deniers.

Noam Chomsky

I see no anti-Semitic implications in denial of the existence of gas chambers, or even denial of the Holocaust.

Mario Vargas Llosa

We must mistrust utopias: they usually end in holocausts.

Muhammad Ali

They used to draw cartoons of Jews in Germany. Later they started killing them in the Holocaust.

Aasif Mandvi

I've always said I'm the worst representative of Muslim-Americans that's ever existed, because I've been inside more bars than mosques.