The public man needs but one patron, namely, the lucky moment. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Back in the '40's, Lyndon Johnson could still steal a Senate election in South Texas with the help of the big patrons. — Calvin Jillson Copy Share Image
I like being a patron of things, I like patronizing things. And if it's not going to be people, I'll patronize a… — Terry Gilliam Copy Share Image
I'm down with the whole patron thing. Bring back the Medicis. Maybe, I'm not just a lefty, but a royalist. — Jill Sobule Copy Share Image
Now my wife may think she's locked me out of the kitchen but MacGyver's not my patron saint for nothing. — Alton Brown Copy Share Image
France is the only nation in which astoundingly small numbers of civilized patrons reside. — Gustave Courbet Copy Share Image
I really wish people - maybe it's naive - wish people had priorities and were willing to be artistic patrons. — Harold Prince Copy Share Image
The main function of the museum has been to serve as a pedestal upon which a clique of socialites pose as patrons… — Albert C. Barnes Copy Share Image
Religion is always a patron of the arts, but its taste is by no means impeccable. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Marco moves to close the distance between them, kissing away her tears before catching her lip with his own. As he kisses… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
I am delighted to become a Patron of Deafinitely Youth Theatre, a fantastic charity that is so special to me, and supporting… — Rose Ayling-Ellis Copy Share Image
The more especially, as in my juvenile frankness, I took some credit to myself for being so confidential and felt that I… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Feast of Patrick, Bishop of Armagh, Missionary, Patron of Ireland, c.460 The evidence for Christian truth is not exhaustive, but it is… — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
In an atmosphere of liberty, artists and patrons are free to think the unthinkable and create the audacious; they are free to… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Given lesser opportunities, Kissinger would have done very well as a talk show host. Fortunately for him, although not so fortunately for… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
If a patron buys from an artist who needs money, the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
“When St Genesius, the patron saint of actors, refused to act in a Roman play that ridiculed Christianity, the legend goes, the… — Samuel G. Freedman Copy Share Image
Today is [the feast of] Santa Rita, Patron Saint of impossible things - but this seems impossible: let us ask of her… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Prostitution is not just a service industry, mopping up the overflow of male demand, which always exceeds female supply. Prostitution testifies to… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Earlier in this century, philanthropy often flowed from the wills of dead industrialists. In recent decades, it's as likely to have come… — Michael Milken Copy Share Image
All important persons have about them someone in a subordinate position who has their ear. These dependents are very susceptible to slights,… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“You can tell Rook his statue's become something like the patron saint for Our Lady, and you can see whores there night… — Danielle Bennett Copy Share Image
How did scientists get money in the past? They were either lucky and independently wealthy, like Darwin, or they had patrons, like… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Are people drawn to each other because of the stories they carry inside? At the library I couldn’t help but notice which… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
If I had to spend equal time doing paintings, and equal time going to galleries and doing art business, and equal time… — Debbie Harry Copy Share Image
So the Bush-Obama administration has taken a fiscal stance diametrically opposed to that of the patron saint of free enterprise. While escalating… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
The library smells like old books — a thousand leather doorways into other worlds. I hear silence, like the mind of God.… — Laura Whitcomb Copy Share Image
“Of all public figures and benefactors of mankind, no one is loved by history more than the literary patron. Napoleon was just… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
One of the nastier trends in library management in recent years is the notion that libraries should be 'responsive to their patrons'. — Connie Willis Copy Share Image
Right now in Oregon anybody can open a saloon, and hire people to come in and have sex in front of their… — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
All backups take their cue from Elrod Hendricks, the patron saint of erstwhile catchers. — Stephen Rodrick Copy Share Image
“I’m your patron. You’re my protégée. What a patron does is take the protégée under his wing. And what protégées do is… — Primula Bond Copy Share Image
I make the majority of my money from Patron, but my passion is with Paul Mitchell: I spend 85 per cent of… — John Paul DeJoria Copy Share Image
When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it. — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
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