A Quote by Neil MacGregor

For many, the icon of the British Museum is the Rosetta Stone, that administrative by-product of the Greek imperial adventure in Africa.

Neil MacGregor

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Neil MacGregor
British - Historian
Born: June 16, 1946

I finish so many books it's amazing. I'm also doing Rosetta Stone, learning some French.

Kellan Lutz

He's this amazing ambassador for all superheroes. What we've made as a film not only examines that but is also an amazing adventure story. It's been an honor to work on. As a comic book fan, Superman is like the Rosetta Stone of all superheroes.

Zack Snyder

It is a standing source of astonishment and amusement to visitors that the British Museum has so few British things in it: that it is a museum about the world as seen from Britain rather than a history focused on these islands.

Neil MacGregor

I only halfway paid attention in high school Spanish class, and it may be too late now to catch up, no matter how many levels of Rosetta Stone I order.

W. Kamau Bell

The Rosetta Stone of Christian social thought is the Trinity.

Nancy Pearcey

I'm learning Spanish - I got Rosetta Stone for Christmas.

Karlie Kloss

I could teach you how to speak my language, Rosetta Stone.

Drake

The British Museum was our first real museum, the property of the public rather than the monarch or the church.

Kate Williams

It turned out that the buckyball, the soccer ball, was something of a Rosetta stone of an infinite new class of molecules.

Richard Smalley

I've got my huge Greek family. I mean, I don't know how many cousins I have - I can't even keep track. There are just so many of us, and we love all Greek food - we have Greek night every Sunday night.

Elena Kampouris

I am often struck by the anxious inferiority many well-educated British people display towards the U.S., particularly Londoners dazzled by New York, when many postcolonials are accustomed to regarding Britain's old imperial cosmopolis as the true capital of the western world.

Pankaj Mishra

Whenever I finish a book, I go off and have some kind of adventure. Having had an adventure in my writing chair or on my writing sofa, an internal adventure, then I need to balance that off with an external adventure, so I'll go tramping through Africa or whitewater rafting or float to Hawaii in a martini shaker or something.

Tom Robbins

My favourite museum is the British Museum.

Felipe Anderson

Forget horror icon, Kety Bates is an icon. She's an acting icon. I was raised on so many of her films, everything from Misery to Fried Green Tomatoes to Delores Claiborne, all films that I've watched multiple times and been inspired by.

Matt Bomer

A product is not a product unless it sells. Otherwise it is merely a museum piece.

Theodore Levitt

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

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