Top 1200 British Museum Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

There are freaky talking mannequins in the Salem Witch Museum that recite the Lord's Prayer and while they do resemble shrunken apples they nevertheless help the visitor understand how hard it must have been for the condemned to say the line about forgiving those who trespass against us.

You can't generalise about an entire country, but I like the energy of British men.

I did some British TV and bits and bobs here and there. I've been lucky.

The need for reflection and restraint of power is what led Louis Freeh to order that all new agent classes visit the Holocaust Museum here in Washington so they could see and feel and hear in a palpable way the consequences of abuse of power on a massive, almost unimaginable scale.

Anthony Powell was the most European of 20th-century British novelists.

The British have chosen liberty with Brexit and can congratulate themselves every day.

I first saw 'The Dinner Party' in 2007 at the Brooklyn Museum in New York City. While perusing the Heritage Panels, which honor 999 women who have made important contributions to Western history, I came upon the names of two sisters, Sarah and Angelina Grimke.

The British people, being subject to fogs, require grave statesmen.

I went to the beach a couple of times in New York City. Tough summer out there, but I was pretty excited. I found what I thought at the time was a very rare seashell. And I took it to a friend of mine who works in a museum. And I was really disappointed. It turned out to be just a human ear.

Mitt Romney announced he will fight former heavyweight champion Evander Holyfield in a charity boxing match. You can tell that Romney is serious about it. Today, his butler gave him a piggyback ride up the steps of the Philadelphia art museum.

I don't decide where I live. My wife decides. She's a curator of contemporary art, and she works at an art museum, so we go wherever she has a job. All basements look the same, so I can write from whatever basement I happen to be living in.

The way to bring out the best in the British people is to attack them.

I spent my entire youth in front of a TV watching old movies, and as soon as I was able to get a subway pass, when I was 14, I joined the Museum of Modern Art and was there all weekend watching old movies.

It worries me that western journalists, especially British ones, call everyone they don't like 'marginal.'

MoMA is one of the world's great cultural institutions with one of the world's premier Boards and Museum leadership. It is my distinct pleasure to work with such a talented and highly qualified group. I salute Bob Menschel for the high bar he has set and follow him in the position of Chairman with all the respect he has earned.

Reform and exchange in English poetry are as slow as in the British constitution itself.

I'll be giving a speech at the randomest place, like a bank or something, and a guy in a suit will say, 'I'm totally freaked out that I'm talking to the girl from 'Cremaster.' For the rest of my life, that movie will be playing in a museum somewhere. I never could have expected that huge response.

But in Hiroshima, some people were wiped clean away, leaving only a wristwatch or a diary page. So no matter that I have inhibitions to fill all my pockets, I keep trying, hoping that one day I'll write a poem I can be proud to let sit in a museum exhibit as the only proof I existed.

I am very happy to be part of European and world cinema as a British filmmaker.

The idea of exposing the British public to the full breadth of my personality isn't a good one.

Istanbul in the snow is a wonder. The extravagant pleasures on show in the Topkapi Palace Museum - the sultan's robes thickly lined with squirrel fur, mobile foot-braziers to keep out a cold that whips relentlessly off the Bosphorus - presage modern-day sultanic delights.

I don't tend to watch too many American comedies. I love British comedy.

That's the British press. Can you tell me one successful sportsperson that doesn't get slammed?

The British electors will not vote for a man who does not wear a hat.

In the days before the vote, I bet that the British would stay in the EU.

There can never be a single, satisfactory comprehensive account of the 'history of the British empire.'

Since 2000, I've been based in Paris at the Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville, curating the programme there. Internationally, it's a very open situation that goes beyond national boundaries; directors and curators move from one country to another, which has opened up the museum landscape.

I'd like to think we can make a nice, glowing change to British dressing.

I'm not as big a soccer fan as people might imagine, being British.

It is a cliché about British bands going to America and being broken by the experience.

The coast of British Columbia was one of the three chief centers of aboriginal America.

I'm so excited to be working on 'Doctor Who,' as it's such a big and important part of British culture.

The Museum of the Bible, the sprawling, 430,000-square-foot tribute to the good book, has been dogged by controversies long before opening day. It's been criticized for not including enough Jesus, for excluding various religious traditions, and for being evangelical propaganda.

We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.

I don't think there's a public in the world who respond like the British to a call for charity.

I think we're all guilty of it as British citizens: if something gets big, we go, 'Ugh.'

My most famous show is the 'Kitchen Show.' More famous than any gallery show or museum show I curated.

The official name of the project is 'Jewish Museum' but I have named it 'Between the Lines' because for me it is about two lines of thinking, organization and relationship. One is a straight line, but broken into many fragments, the other is a tortuous line, but continuing indefinitely.

I was just at the newly opened Creationist Museum in Kentucky.... And they have this exhibit of a giant dinosaur...with a saddle on its back. Because the world is only 5000 years old, so man and the dinosaurs had to coexist, and, of course, we rode them. A theory I thought laughable at the age of eight when I saw it on THE FLINTSTONES!

Cutting out images you like from art books and framing them is a great way of getting beautiful works on your wall. You can also frame magazine images or pick up inexpensive art at museum gift shops.

In British sitcoms, you can get five minutes of nothing before the story starts.

As a kid in British Columbia, going back a long way, I learned to skate.

Now, the magic of British parks at night, as Bill Oddie presents.. Gaywatch.

The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.

Is democracy about living in fear? Is that what our forefathers fought the British for?

People can't look down on grime anymore, it's an established British genre.

A woman's quest in life should be to find the perfect apartment. And I have found the perfect apartment. The perfect apartment is the first floor of the Metropolitan Museum. With a sofa.

The history of successful cases, some of which are in this museum, illustrates that often the regulators and legislatures don't wake up until some plaintiff gets a lawyers and digs out the cover-ups and the incriminating information about a safety defect in an automobile or another product.

Once they have actually left office, we seem to grow fonder of our ex-presidents - and they of each other. That's why so many sighed in approval at Michelle Obama's public display of affection with George W. Bush at last month's dedication of the National Museum of African-American History and Culture.

I think that British fans' support is making our heart stronger.

British innovation in design, in the creative arts, in engineering and manufacturing is world class.

I think that still, for the most part, even in 2010, the vast majority of museum shows and gallery shows and gallerists are pretty much dominated by men. So having a sense of what women are up to, for me, frankly, is very, very important.

Originally, AXS TV came to me last year and asked me if I'd be interested in doing an acoustic 'Live from the Grammy Museum' performance. But I was bound and determined to do an electric show with this great band to dispel any notion that I wasn't a 'rock guy' in Styx.

I come from an immigrant family, but I know no other nationality apart from British.

I wanted to defend my British Title but no one would step up to fight me.

When I was competing I didn't have a nutritionist. It wasn't something that British athletics offered back then.

If there's one thing that chafes French pride, it's seeing the British steal the limelight.

British aren't really known for their physical loveliness but firemen, generally speaking, are gorgeous.

British girls are really funny, so I definitely think we'd get along.

Until the Eighties, Oslo was a rather boring town, but it's changed a lot, and is now much more cosmopolitan. If I go downtown, I visit the harbour to see the tall ships and the ferries, and to admire the modern architecture such as the Opera House or the new Astrup Fearnley Museum on the water's edge.