“Don't be a patron of disbelief; nobody fights and wins battles in the hand gloves of doubts.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Lucifer is the patron saint of the visual arts. Color, form-all these are the work of Lucifer. — Kenneth Anger Copy Share Image
Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause awhile from letters, to be wise. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If people want new music then they are going to have to figure out a way to be patrons of the arts.… — Ian MacKaye Copy Share Image
Allah will never humiliate the one who takes his Lord as friend and patron. — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya Copy Share Image
If journalism were a religious order, George Orwell would be its patron saint. — Janadas Devan 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
Tennyson seems to be the patron saint of the wishy washies, which is perhaps why I admire him so much, not only… — A. N. Wilson Copy Share Image
The notion that the great artist requires a great patron has been around since the Pharaohs. That the born patron also needs… — Shana Alexander Copy Share Image
Right now, scientists are in exactly the same position as Renaissance painters, commissioned to make the portrait the patron wants done, And… — Michael Crichton 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
Our thoughts fly therefore by themselves in this festive hour of our plant community, to the man whom we thank for the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The rector of a parish has much to do.—In the first place, he must make such an agreement for tythes as may… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Why not allow patrons to comment on directors' decisions, vote on costume design, listen to dancers' conversations, volunteer to help out in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As polishing expresses the vein in marble, and grain in wood, so music brings out what of heroic lurks anywhere. The hero… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Patronizing the Arts is a brilliantly nuanced assessment of why universities must become art patrons. Learning from the twentieth-century university's embrace of… — Peggy Phelan Copy Share Image
The huge egos of great chess players are legendary. Psychologists have been amazed by their vanity, have studied it, and anecdotes concerning… — Israel Albert Horowitz 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
The public is the tribunal before which all art is judged - not the critics or the academies. The public is the… — Walter J. Phillips 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
And may that Being who is supreme over all, the Patron of order, the Fountain of justice, and the Protector, in all… — John Quincy Adams 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
Lindsay Lohan's collaboration was a disaster. I am furious but I can't do anything about it. That happens to a lot of… — Emanuel Ungaro 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
On this day, millions of people...throughout the world will gather to commemorate the life of Patrick, patron saint of Ireland. From his… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Through the media, we've establishes this standard of what every human being should look up to: somebody who always looks right; who… — Fiona Apple 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
“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
Moments later a huge male with a cropped mohawk came out. Rehvenge was dressed in a perfectly tailored black suit and had… — J.R. Ward 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
