Museum Reading Room

Famous quotes containing the words museum, reading and/or room:

“It is the space inside that gives the drum its sound.”
—Hawaiian saying no. 1189, ‘lelo No’Eau, collected, translated, and annotated by Mary Kawena Pukui, Bishop Museum Press, Hawaii (1983)

“The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

“Make room, Roman writers, make room for Greek writers; something greater than the Iliad is born.”
—Propertius Sextus (c. 50–16 B.C.)