May Kendall quotes

“I abide in a goodly Museum, Frequented by sages profound: 'Tis a kind of strange mausoleum, Where the beasts that have vanished abound. There's a bird of the ages Triassic, With his antediluvian beak, And many a reptile Jurassic, And many a monster antique.”
-- May Kendall

Source : May Kendall (1887). “Dreams to Sell”

#Museums Quotes #Profound Quotes #Bird Quotes

“The primary purpose of the Museum is to help people enjoy, understand, and use the visual arts of our time.”

“A dancer should learn from all the arts. Go to museums and look at the paintings. See how they balance things. Everything you do in the arts enriches you.”

“I think about that all of the time and I have this fantasy that I am going to work at a museum someday! I would love to do something like that!”

“Profound love demands a deep conception and out of this develops reverence for the mystery of life. It brings us close to all beings, to the poorest and smallest as well as all others.”

“To associate with other like-minded people in small, purposeful groups is for the great majority of men and women a source of profound psychological satisfaction. Exclusiveness will add to the pleasure of being several, but at one; and secrecy will intensify it almost to ecstasy.”

“I am entirely on the side of mystery. I mean, any attempt to explain away the mystery is ridiculous. I believe in the profound and unfathomable mystery of life which has a sort of divine quality about it.”

“It is a matter of shame that in the morning the birds should be awake earlier than you.”

“We attain freedom as we let go of whatever does not reflect our magnificence. A bird cannot fly high or far with a stone tied to its back. But release the impediment, and we are free to soar to unprecedented heights.”

“Paleontologists have tried to turn Archaeopteryx into an earth-bound, feathered dinosaur. But it's not. It is a bird, a perching bird. And no amount of 'paleobabble' is going to change that.”

Source : "Archaeopteryx: Early Bird Catches a Can of Worms" by V. Morell, February 5, 1993.

“I don't mind being 65, but nobody is gonna tell me to come in at 5:30 to have the early bird special.”