Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Simmons

I have a one of a kind collection of dolls. My house is like a museum.

Mick Jagger

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

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.

One time I went to a museum where all the work in the museum had been done by children. They had all the paintings up on refrigerators.

Mark Spitz

New generation, I guess. The important thing is that we're getting the museum back on its feet.

Jeffrey Eugenides

Paris was a museum displaying exactly itself.

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.

Jean Cocteau

The Louvre is a morgue; you go there to identify your friends.

Frank Gehry

Bilbao opened in 1997. It was only ten years later that I was asked to do another museum. A lot of other people got work because of Bilbao.

Erich Maria Remarque

Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.

Glenn Gould

A record is a concert without halls and a museum whose curator is the owner.

Mary Schiavo

Mallards are museum pieces. There are planes in museums younger than these.

Barry McGee

The parts of graffiti I like are really antagonizing still - it's not something that a museum would really embrace.

Jean Baudrillard

Kitschis one of the major categories of the modern object. Knick-knacks, rustic odds-and-ends, souvenirs, lampshades, and African masks: the kitsch-object is collectively this whole plethora of "trashy," sham or faked objects, this whole museum of junk which proliferates everywhere.... Kitsch is the equivalent to the "cliché" in discourse.

Jarvis Cocker

I always feel like there are specific things about Houston. There's one museum in particular in Houston. So many of the things that I'm interested in now I can sort of trace back to that museum, which introduced me to them.

Erin Morgenstern

Where do you get your ideas? people ask. Sometimes they’re at the bottoms of cups of tea. Sometimes they’re lurking in my shower. Sometimes they’re waiting patiently in glass cases in museums.

Gertrude Stein

When in a museum, walk slowly but keep walking.

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.

Giorgio de Chirico

One must picture everything in the world as an enigma, and live in the world as if in a vast museum of strangeness.

Richard Serra

The piece is predicated on walking and moving, anticipation and reflection, through these various pieces and through the museum as a whole.

A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.

Damien Hirst

Museums are for dead artists. I'd never show my work in the Tate. You'd never get me in that place.

Daniel Barenboim

The ear plays the role of the guide in the museum in the concert I'm taking now. We don't have an oral guide, we have to provide it ourselves. One reason why active listening is absolutely essential.

Conan O'Brien

Republicans have called for a National African-American Museum. The plan is being held up by finding a location that isn't in their neighborhood.