museum quotes

• 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. (Gilbert K. Chesterton) [museum/slave/routine/food]
• Yesterday I went out at about twelve, and visited the British Museum; an exceedingly tiresome affair. It quite crushes a person to see so much at once; and I wandered from hall to hall with a weary and heavy heart, wishing (Heaven forgive me!) that the Elgin marbles and the frieze of the Parthenon were all burnt into lime, and that the granite Egyptian statues were hewn and squared into building stones, and that the mummies had all turned to dust, two thousand years ago; and, in fine, that all the material relics of so many successive ages had disappeared with the generations that produced them. The present is burthened too much with the past. (Nathaniel Hawthorne) [/museum/heavy/dust]
• There is a museum, I think it's in Florida, that I am in. So I do get my photograph and a plaque in the museum. (Cindy Margolis) [museum/think/museum]
• There's a statue of Jimmy Stewart in the Hollywood Wax Museum, and the statue talks better than he does. (Dean Martin) [museum]
• The only thing that I knew was that they were going to screen my film in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and then I jumped on the plane. (Donnie Yen) [thing/film/museum]
• Working in Venice was like a four-month guided tour of the city. It was like shooting a film inside a museum. (Heath Andrew Ledger) [film/museum]
• It was like shooting a movie inside a museum. (Heath Andrew Ledger) [movie/museum]
• My wife and I have tried to do it all, from the Helen Keller home to the W.C. Handy museum and the music hall of fame. We hit antique stores and pawnshops and all the restaurants. (Lee Majors) [wife/housing/museum/music]
• “Muhammad would never have allowed this if it were just a museum, a place to glorify the man. This is not an institution to serve as a monument or shrine. It's to continue his walk.” (Michael Fox) [museum]
• At a museum, there will be one person weeping in front of the Monet, another weeping in front of the Renoir and another weeping in front of the Picasso. Who can say what moves each person so? That's how I feel about Weill's work. (Bebe Neuwirth) [museum/willpower]
• “Do you know what I'm going to do one day? I'm going to build a new Egyptian museum in Berlin,” (Adolf Hitler) [museum]
• “like some exhibit in a science museum, preserved the same forever?” (Chyler Leigh) [science/museum]
• 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) [museum]
• 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) [group/museum/help/thing]
• Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering - because you can't take it in all at once. (Audrey Hepburn) [museum/start/thinking/take]

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