Museums are the cemeteries of the arts


Alphonse Lamartine

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Museums are the cemeteries of the arts
ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE
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Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.
ALPHONSE LAMARTINE
If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.
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Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim
ALPHONSE LAMARTINE
The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs.
ALPHONSE LAMARTINE
Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires, man is a fallen god who remembers the heavens
ALPHONSE LAMARTINE
Grief and sadness knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings ar...
ALPHONSE LAMARTINE
To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.
ALPHONSE LAMARTINE
Sometimes only one person is missing and the whole world seems depopulated.
ALPHONSE LAMARTINE
There is a woman at the beginning of all great things.
ALPHONSE LAMARTINE
Things are always best seen when they are a trifle mixed-up, a trifle disordered; the chilly adminis...
CAMILO CELA
Things are always best seen when they are a trifle mixed-up, a trifle disordered; the chilly adminis...
CAMILO JOSE CELA
The cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.
CHARLES DE GAULLE
Orion is above the horizon now, and near it Jupiter, brighter than it will ever be ... But i expect ...
THOMAS HARRIS
If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th...
GARY F EVANS...
If we truly believe in the power of cultural institutions to impact communities and engage authentic...
MONICA O MONTGOMERY
It was good to be gay on Top of the Pops years before it was good to be gay in Parliament, or gay in...
CAITLIN MORAN
I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON
It's very special having a new little girl.
KATE MIDDLETON
The only people without problems are those in cemeteries
ANTHONY ROBBINS
If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and astonishing results are the three criteria of a hum...
ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE
Small museums are great. Big museums are a drag.
PETER ZUMTHOR
I believe in the democratization of the arts. What do I mean by that? I think museums, with some exc...
ELI BROAD
Beauty is the light within. Only when you see the light within yourself will others see it in you.
F. JOHNSON
Museums are the secular temples of our day.
BILL JACK
She said 'Over my dead body!' so I took her at her word.
DIANA WYNNE JONES
The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a...
NEIL GAIMAN
What is the Other?" they ask.
The Other is the one who taught me whatI should be like, but not ...
PAULO COELHO
Look, my friends!' he called. 'Here's a pretty hobbit-skin to wrap an elven princeling in! If it wer...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN
Rhetoric abounds in the cemeteries of reason.
MIGUEL QUEAH
Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.
ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE
Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.
ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE
A conscience without God is like a court without a judge.
ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE
Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.
ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE
Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.
ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE
Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.
ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE
Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated.
ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE
Habit with its iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day.
ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE
Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far strong...
ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE
Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities...
ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE
Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.
ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE
The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who m...
ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE
If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.
ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE
Habit with it's iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day.
ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE
The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs.
ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE
Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.
ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE
Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.
ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE
Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires. Man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.
ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE
A conscience without God is like a court without a judge.
ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE
The more I see the representatives of the people, the more I love my dogs. [Fr., Plus je vois des...
ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE
There is a woman at the begining of all great things.
ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE
Philosopher, orator, apostle, legislator, warrior, conqueror of ideas, restorer of rational dogmas, ...
ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE
To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.
ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE
There is a woman at the beginning of all great things.
ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE
Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.
ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE
Sad is the lot, who, once at least in his life, had not been a poet
ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE
Grief and sadness knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings ar...
ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE
Sometimes only one person is missing and the whole world seems depopulated.
ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE
Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires, man is a fallen god who remembers the heavens
ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE
Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim
ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE
Wonderful power of a book, that can work upon the feelings of an untutored child and an ignorant fam...
ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE
Poetry has no echo so loud and long as in the heart of youth in which love is just springing into li...
ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE
would seem as though language is the only predestination of man, and that he is created to bring it ...
ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE
Our cemeteries are very unique and I know when people come to New Orleans, tourists and all, they lo...
LUCY MCCANN
It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.
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It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
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I have to be seen to be believed.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughou...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but t...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in th...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something e...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts an...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
Grief is the price we pay for love.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a nobl...
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At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Chr...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses w...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your s...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are g...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the man...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
These wretched babies don't come until they are ready.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has t...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
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QUEEN ELIZABETH II
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QUEEN ELIZABETH II
No one who knew Diana will ever forget her. Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and o...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
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Here was one with an air of high nobility such as Aragorn at times revealed, less high perhaps, yet ...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN
Hail to you gods, on that day of the great reckoning. Behold me, I have come to you, without sin, wi...
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