Patron Quotes

124 Patron quotes by 111 unique authors

We have to recognize that the world is not something sculptured and finished, which we as perceivers walk through like patrons in a museum; the… — Terence McKenna
NARA must provide security at our facilities to protect our public patrons, our staff, and our holdings. — Allen Weinstein
Why not allow patrons to comment on directors' decisions, vote on costume design, listen to dancers' conversations, volunteer to help out in ways beyond just… — Chris Elam
Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached… — Samuel Johnson
Most of the e-mails I get nowadays are from students who ask me how I got my start. In truth its from having a really… — Ryan McGinley
Allah will never humiliate the one who takes his Lord as friend and patron. — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
We would never call inexplicable little insights hunches, for fear of drawing the universe's attention. But they happened, and you knew you had been in… — China Mieville
Now my wife may think she's locked me out of the kitchen but MacGyver's not my patron saint for nothing. — Alton Brown
Nursery schools and bars at 2 a.m. are the only places where it is completely normal if someone just spontaneously throws up on the floor...and… — Jim Gaffigan
They seemed to be quiet types, the women and men in rubber-soled shoes. Their favorite word, after literacy, was privacy--for their patrons and themselves. — Marilyn Johnson
Lucifer is the patron saint of the visual arts. Color, form-all these are the work of Lucifer. — Kenneth Anger
The editor of a newspaper cannot be independent, but must work with one hand tied behind him by party and patrons, and be content to… — Mark Twain
[It] is impossible for us to establish a living vital connection with the masses unless we will work for them, through them and in their… — Mahatma Gandhi
And may that Being who is supreme over all, the Patron of order, the Fountain of justice, and the Protector, in all ages of the… — John Quincy Adams
Each lost day has its patron saint! — Bret Harte
It is because artists do not practise, patrons do not patronize, crowds do not assemble to reverently worship the great work of Doing Nothing, that… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
There are nine hundred and ninety-nine patrons of virtue to one virtuous man. — Henry David Thoreau
The public man needs but one patron, namely, the lucky moment. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
I would rather have as my patron a host of anonymous citizens digging into their own pockets for the price of a book or a… — John Updike
Religion is always a patron of the arts, but its taste is by no means impeccable. — Aldous Huxley
There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, toil, envy, want, and patron. — Samuel Johnson
Is not a patron one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached ground, encumbers… — Samuel Johnson
When you're kept by a patron you don't have to duke it out in the media marketplace for dollars and for readers. In some ways… — David Talbot
Tennyson seems to be the patron saint of the wishy washies, which is perhaps why I admire him so much, not only as a poet,… — A. N. Wilson
The astrologers and historians write that the ascendant as of Oxford is Capricornus, whose lord is Saturn, a religious planet, and patron of religious men. — John Aubrey

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111 authors contributed a total of 124 Patron Quotes, led by these top contributors: