Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The Patron of true Holinesse, Foule Errour doth defeate: Hypocrisie him to entrappe, Doth to his home entreate. — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
Christianity has its own superstition, anyway: Why you turn three times, what this saint means, why you pray to the patron saint… — Ciaran Hinds Copy Share Image
People were talking while I was playing, so I got up and left the stage. I've gotten to the point where I'm… — Bruce Hornsby Copy Share Image
Most of the e-mails I get nowadays are from students who ask me how I got my start. In truth it's from… — Ryan McGinley Copy Share Image
No one doubts that poison gas was used in Syria. But there is every reason to believe it was used, not by… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Nowadays, if a man living in a civilized country (ha!) hears cannon blasts in his sleep, he will, of course, mistake them… — Andrea Camilleri Copy Share Image
Let's take Adam Smith, the patron-saint of capitalism, what did he think? He thought the main human instinct was sympathy. In fact,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The tall building, concentrating man in one place more densely than ever before, similarly concentrates the dilemma of our public architecture at… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
Avant-garde architects have never been able to depend on the support of the establishment, since the customary patrons of this most conservative… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
A successful restaurant makes everything in it, including the patrons, seem a little better than they are. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
...Dean Mohamet, a Muslim landowner from Patna who had followed his British patron to Ireland. There he soon eloped with, and later… — William Dalrymple Copy Share Image
Art forms of the past were really considered elitist. Bach did not compose for the masses, neither did Beethoven. It was always… — David Cronenberg Copy Share Image
If it takes you seven years to write each novel, you need a patron. And I would rather have my corporate self… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
I swear on St. Francis, the patron saint of all animals.” Seeing Poppy’s hesitation, Beatrix added enthusiastically, “If a band of pirates… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
When you're kept by a patron you don't have to duke it out in the media marketplace for dollars and for readers.… — David Talbot Copy Share Image
If journalism were a religious order, George Orwell would be its patron saint. — Janadas Devan Copy Share Image
The astrologers and historians write that the ascendant as of Oxford is Capricornus, whose lord is Saturn, a religious planet, and patron… — John Aubrey Copy Share Image
There will never be great architects or great architecture without great patrons. — Edwin Lutyens Copy Share Image
Ergo, it is not St. George who is the patron saint of England, but Set of the Hyksos. In general terms whenever… — Michael Tsarion Copy Share Image
Adult librarians are like lazy bakers: their patrons want a jelly doughnut, so they give them a jelly doughnut. Children’s librarians are… — John Green Copy Share Image
I like to think of my best moment on the job as quiet victories. Victories over what? Over the "system", over the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I wanted to do my part to help preserve that golden age of travel... I step aboard The Patron Tequila Express railcar,… — John Paul DeJoria Copy Share Image
It's too late. It was too late by the time I arrived in London to turn your notebook into a dove; there… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
