Visitors Quotes - Page 9

• What I am out to do is make sure that the Met continues to be the most exciting encyclopedic museum in the world. I want to sustain the vibrancy that makes it exciting to work here, that makes it exciting for visitors. The art remains central.

  Thomas P. Campbell

  Art, Museums, Vibrancy

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• Suddenly, as though in a dream, this apparition, this double apparition, approached me. The two most beautiful people in the world were floating toward me, smiling. It was as if they were angelic visitors. I thought to myself, 'If there is anything I can do to keep them as beautiful as they are, I will do it.'

  Gilbert Seldes

  Beautiful, Dream, Two

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• If you'd lose a troublesome visitor, lend him money.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Money, Humorous, Lending

  Benjamin Franklin (2012). “Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.41, Courier Corporation

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• Fish & Visitors stink in 3 days.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Stink, Fishes

  Benjamin Franklin, Ormond Seavey (1998). “Autobiography and Other Writings”, p.277, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Blessed the man that hath visited `Akká, and blessed he that hath visited the visitor of `Akká. Blessed the one that hath drunk from the Spring of the Cow and washed in its waters, for the black-eyed damsels quaff the camphor in Paradise, which hath come from the Spring of the Cow, and from the Spring of Salvan (Siloam), and the Well of Zamzam. Well is it with him that hath drunk from these springs, and washed in their waters, for God hath forbidden the fire of hell to touch him and his body on the Day of Resurrection.

  Bahá'u'lláh

  Spring, Blessed, Men

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• Love, unconquerable, Waster of rich men, keeper Of warm lights and all-night vigil In the soft face of a girl: Sea-wanderer, forest-visitor! Even the pure immortals cannot escape you, And mortal man, in his one day's dusk, Trembles before your glory.

  Sophocles

  Love, Girl, Night

  Sophocles (1977). “The Oedipus Cycle: An English Version”, Harcourt

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• Marcel Proust shut out visitors from his cork-lined room, where he wrote, but he probably expected to be immortalized in the literary canon. Even the most introverted drives and motives are set in a social context and amplified by the potential for achieving fame.

  Tyler Cowen

  Rooms, Proust, Fame

  Tyler Cowen (2000). “What Price Fame?”, p.2, Harvard University Press

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• My life is like shattered glass." said the visitor. "My soul is tainted with evil. Is there any hope for me? "Yes," said the Master. "There is something whereby each broken thing is bound again and every stain made clean." "What?" "Forgiveness" "Whom do I forgive?" "Everyone: Life, God, your neighbor especially yourself." "How is that done?" "By understanding that no one is to blame," said the Master. "NO ONE.

  Anthony de Mello

  Glasses, Broken, Evil

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• To a visitor who asked to become his disciple the Master said, "You may live with me, but don't become my follower." "Whom, then, shall I follow?" "No one. The day you follow someone you cease to follow Truth .

  Anthony de Mello

  Followers, May, Masters

  Anthony De Mello (2012). “One Minute Wisdom”, p.40, Image

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• I'm afraid my closely guarded solitude causes some hurt feelings now and then. But how to explain, without wounding someone, that you want to be wholly in the world you are writing about, that it would take two days to get the visitor's voice out of the house so that you could listen to your own characters again?

  Margaret Bourke-White

  Photography, Hurt, Writing

  Margaret Bourke-White (2016). “Portrait of Myself”, p.331, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• The telephone and visitors are the work destroyers.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Telephones, Destroyers

  Ernest Hemingway, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli (1986). “Conversations with Ernest Hemingway”, p.114, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• A complete transformation seemed to have place in my life overnight. It was quite staggering, and thenceforward visitors and invitations continued to pour in daily until they became a source of grievance to our landlady, who was obliged to engage an extra servant to respond to the battering of powdered footmen on her humble and somewhat flimsy door.

  Lillie Langtry

  Humble, Doors, Transformation

  Lillie Langtry (2000). “The Days I Knew”, p.37, Panoply Publications

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• It is not only visitors to the zoo who are fascinated but uneasy in the presence of chimpanzees; the same is true of scientists. The more they learn about these great apes, the deeper our identity crisis seems to become. The resemblance between humans and chimpanzees is not only external. If we look straight and deep into a chimpanzee’s eyes, an intelligent, self-assured personality looks back at us. If they are animals, what must we be?

  Frans de Waal

  Zoos, Eye, Animal

  Frans de Waal (2007). “Chimpanzee Politics: Power and Sex Among Apes”, p.3, JHU Press

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• Foreign visitors . . . how impressed you all are with foreign visitors! But they come in many different varieties.

  Mikhail Bulgakov

  Different, Variety, Impressed

  "The Master and Margarita". Book by Mikhail Bulgakov, Book One in 'The Evil Apartment', B/O, 1967.

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• One of the greatest problems for international journalists covering the Middle East is that people who serve as guides for journalists are often affiliated with Islamic terrorists seeking to turn for foreign visitors against Israel.

  Caroline Glick

  Islamic, Israel, People

  "Live from NY’s 92nd Street Y Continues". www.vaildaily.com. October 07, 2007.

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• No one thinks Las Vegas is real; it is illusion, but visitors willingly suspend disbelief and pretend.

  Hal Rothman

  Real, Thinking, Vegas

  Hal Rothman (2015). “Neon Metropolis: How Las Vegas Started the Twenty-First Century”, p.12, Routledge

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• Have you ever actually listened to golfers talking to each other? "Looked good starting out..." "Better direction than last time..." "Who's away?..." It sounds like visitors' day at a home for the criminally insane.

  Peter Andrews

  Home, Golf, Talking

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• When you make a movie it's always interesting, because you end up in places you never would as a normal visitor or tourist.

  Denzel Washington

  Interesting, Tourists, Normal

  "Denzel Washington Talks Fleshing Out His Character, Reuniting with Antoine Fuqua, Filming in Boston, and More on the Set of THE EQUALIZER". Interview, collider.com. June 17, 2014.

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• There are two modes of transport in Los Angeles: car and ambulance. Visitors who wish to remain inconspicuous are advised to choose the latter

  Fran Lebowitz

  Two, Car, Wish

  1981 Social Studies,'Lesson One'.

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• One question that people always ask at home is never asked here: "What happened to Communism in Russia?" Everybody yawns when a visitor brings it up, because the answer is so obvious to every Russian. The answer is that there never was Communism in Russia; there were only communists.

  Arthur Koestler

  Home, Russia, People

  Arthur Koestler (1970). “The trail of the dinosaur: and Reflections on hanging”, Random House (UK)

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• Visiting the sick is supposed to exhibit such great virtue that there are some people determined to do it whether the sick like it or not. ... All visitors everywhere are supposed to make plans to depart if they observe their hosts visibly wilting or in pain, but this is especially true at hospitals.

  Judith Martin

  Pain, People, Sick

  Judith Martin (1996). “Miss Manners Rescues Civilization: From Sexual Harassment, Frivolous Lawsuits, Dissing, and Other Lapses in Civility”, Crown

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• Visitors who come from the Soviet Union and tell you how marvelous it is to be able to look at public buildings without advertisements stuck all over them are just telling you that they can't decipher the cyrillic alphabet.

  Clive James

  Looks, Unions, Able

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• We are also rather concerned about our moorhen who went mad while we were in Italy and began to build a nest in a tree. ... she walks about in the tree, looking as uneasy yet persevering as a district visitor in a brothel.

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  Mad, Tree, Nests

  Sylvia Townsend Warner, William Maxwell (1982). “Letters”

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• Visitors should conform as much as possible to the habits and customs of the house. They should be moderate in their demands for personal attendance. They should not carry their moods into the drawing-room or to the table, and, whether they are bored or not, should be ready to contribute as much as in their power to an atmosphere of pleasure. If the above involves too much self-sacrifice, then an invitation to visit should by no means be accepted.

  Elisabeth Marbury

  Mean, Sacrifice, Self

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• From a purely tourist standpoint, Oxford is overpowering, being so replete with architecture and history and anecdote that the visitor's mind feels dribbling and helpless, as with an over-large mouthful of nougat.

  Margaret Halsey

  Oxford, Mind, England

  Margaret Halsey (1938). “With Malice Toward Some”

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