#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

I think there is a new awareness in this 21st century that design is as important to where and how we live as it is for museums, concert halls and civic buildings. ↗

— Daniel Libeskind

#21st century #awareness #buildings #century #civic

I'm not precisely saying that a really good board meeting at the MLA (Museums, Libraries and Archives Coucil) makes me want to go and write poetry, but there is a pleasure in doing that sort of thing well. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#board #doing #go #good #i

If you're middle aged... where're you going to go to meet someone? You're not going to go to a bar, you're not going to go to a night club; and there are the museums. ↗

— Elizabeth Perkins

#bar #club #go #going #meet

Our universities and museums are respected around the country. ↗

— Jane Byrne

#around #country #museums #our #respected

Being in America isn't old-hat - it's where we're from - but I get excited to be in other parts of the world like Athens and Croatia, which were quite cool. I'm a sightseer. I go see the sights and museums. I'm into that kind of thing. ↗

— Richie Sambora

#athens #being #cool #croatia #excited

It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands. ↗

— George Santayana

#art #bands #etc #football #good

When asked why he wrote the book, Freed said: In the 1980s, I joined the small group of anthropologists who were writing about the history of their subject. I believed that I could add some balance to American anthropological history, and that the best place to start was with museums— where the story began. The more I delved into the archives, the more I was fascinated. I was hooked. ↗

— Stanley A. Freed

#history #museums #science #science

A great department store, easily reached, open at all hours, is more like a good museum of art than any of the museums we have yet established. ↗

— John Cotton Dana

#art #department #department store #easily #established