Quotes About Museum Exhibits

#1. The best museums and museum exhibits about science or technology give you the feeling that, hey, this is interesting, but maybe I could do something here, too.

Paul Allen

#2. Years later, Tony would discover that writers never felt they belonged anywhere. That was one of the reasons they became writers. It was strange, however, failing to belong even at a party full of outsiders.

Nick Hornby

#3. It's a jungle gym, not a ladder.

Sheryl Sandberg

#4. Uncritical semantics is the myth of a museum in which the exhibits are meanings and the words are labels. To switch languages is to change the labels.

Willard Van Orman Quine

#5. I do feel that federation, loose parallel processes, are less than we've got, less than we could have and, in the very long run, less than what God wants in the Church.

Rowan Williams

#6. Going to a museum is one of those inexplicably tiring things. You're not actually doing anything, more shifting your weight from room to room than walking. And yet it is one of the more tiring things one can do, no matter how thrilled you are by the exhibits.

Sloane Crosley

#7. The impossible missions are the only ones which succeed.

Jacques-Yves Cousteau

#8. You live in the greatest museum imaginable. Isn't it time you left the lobby and took a look at some of the incredible exhibits?

Ron Lizzi

#9. If there was a little room somewhere in the British Museum that contained only about twenty exhibits and good lighting, easy chairs, and a notice imploring you to smoke, I believe I should become a museum man.

J.B. Priestley

#10. The heart is a museum, filled with the exhibits of a lifetime's loves.

Diane Ackerman

#11. Yesterday's gone on down the river and you can't get it back.

Larry McMurtry

#12. While about one-third of Americans believe in ghosts, you won't find many exhibits on these spooky beings down at the local science museum. Why? Well, one explanation that you might consider, ghosts are just figments of our highly fertile imaginations!

Seth Shostak

#13. To visit a museum is fine,
to be a museum piece is terrible!

- Gioconda and Si-Ya-U

Nazim Hikmet