#museum

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. ↗

— Conan O'Brien

#being #called #finding #held #location

Are you all right, Sir?" asked Hezekiah. "Just fighting over old battles in my mind," said John. "It's the problem with age. You have all these rusty arguments, and no quarrel to use them in. My brain is a museum, but alas, I'm the only visitor, and even I am not terribly interested in the displays." Hezekiah laughed, but there was affection in it. "I would love nothing better than to visit there. But I'm afraid I'd be tempted to loot the place, and carry it all away with me. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#brain #honor #mind #museum #age

I believe in walking out of a museum before the paintings you've seen begin to run together. How else can you carry anything away with you in your mind's eye? ↗

— Elizabeth Kostova

#museum #art

The number of great museums and nonprofits versus the number of corporate headquarters is incredibly out of whack. ↗

— Richard Stengel

#great #headquarters #incredibly #museums #number

I don't need to be asking for money for local museums and other projects just to make me look good back home. ↗

— Jim DeMint

#back #good #home #i #just

Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums. ↗

— Peter De Vries

#food #museums #par #restaurants

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

#had #heads #i #museum #museums

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. ↗

— Jim Dale

#also #costumes #custodians #filled #museum

Instead of stubbornly attempting to use surrealism for purposes of subversion, it is necessary to try to make of surrealism something as solid, complete and classic as the works of museums. ↗

— Salvador Dali

#classic #complete #instead #make #museums

Black people should have recognition for themselves and their backgrounds and their relationships with other people in the world and thus lose some of their alienation. This museum has certainly stood for that in this town. ↗

— Katherine Dunham

#backgrounds #black #certainly #lose #museum