Patron Quotes - Page 6

• The more especially, as in my juvenile frankness, I took some credit to myself for being so confidential and felt that I was quite the patron of my two respectful entertainers.

  Charles Dickens

  Character, Two, Interesting

  Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.4541, Delphi Classics

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• As polishing expresses the vein in marble, and grain in wood, so music brings out what of heroic lurks anywhere. The hero is the sole patron of music.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Music, Hero, Veins

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.123, Xist Publishing

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• I speak for all mediocrities in the world. I am their champion. I am their patron saint.

  Peter Shaffer

  Champion, Saint, Mediocrity

  "Fictional character: Antonio Salieri". "Amadeus", www.imdb.com. 1984.

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• Patronizing the Arts is a brilliantly nuanced assessment of why universities must become art patrons. Learning from the twentieth-century university's embrace of Big Science, Garber argues that twenty-first-century universities must rigorously devote their attention to Big Art. Provocative, witty, and layered, Patronizing the Arts cogently demonstrates the advantages for both art and the university in this new and radical alliance.

  Peggy Phelan

  Witty, Art, Assessment

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• A successful restaurant makes everything in it, including the patrons, seem a little better than they are.

  Mason Cooley

  Successful, Littles, Restaurants

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• Literary men are being employed to praise a big business man personally, as men used to praise a king. They not only find political reasons for the commercial schemes that they have done for some time past they also find moral defences for the commercial schemers... I do resent the whole age of patronage being revived under such absurd patrons; and all poets becoming court poets, under kings that have taken no oath.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Kings, Taken, Past

  "Utopia of Usurers". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, pp. 15-17, 1917.

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• No wonder the tulip is the patron flower of Holland. Looking at it one almost smells fresh paint laid on in generous brilliance: doors, blinds, whole houses, canal boats, pails, farm wagons - all painted in greens, blues, reds, pinks, yellows.

  Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth

  Flower, Smell, Doors

  Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth (1976). “Personal geography: almost an autobiography”, Stephen Greene Press

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• Human paint, produce films and videos; they dance, dream and make music; they engage in political action, exchange goods, perform rituals, build houses start wars, act in plays, try to please patrons- and so on... They contain patterns, press the practitioners to "conform" and in this way mold their thought, their perception, their actions, and their discriminative abilities.

  Paul Feyerabend

  Dream, War, Play

  Paul Feyerabend (2001). “Conquest of Abundance: A Tale of Abstraction Versus the Richness of Being”, p.28, University of Chicago Press

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• If we have the kinds of confirmation that we need, we will once again work with the international community and the organization charged with monitoring compliance by the Syrian government, and we will reach out to patrons of Assad like Russia to put a stop to it.

  Barack Obama

  Russia, Government, Organization

  Remarks by President Obama in Press Conference after GCC Summit, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. May 14, 2015.

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• There are self-made millionaires - their aspiration is first to make money. But the once that goal is achieved, they have to look for something and sometimes they become patrons of art or museums. And that is how the world should go.

  Tadao Ando

  Art, Museums, Self

  "Interview: Architect Tadao Ando on the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth". Interview with Peter Simek, www.dmagazine.com. October 23, 2012.

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• I don't know any saint who wanted to be the patron saint of kissing.

  Lino Rulli

  Kissing, Saint, Wanted

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• Ergo, it is not St. George who is the patron saint of England, but Set of the Hyksos. In general terms whenever the code term "red" is used in the Old Testament, it denotes the Hyksos dynasty. Connected to the Order of the Garter, is the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, formed in 1818. Aditionally, legend has it that the senior members of the Merovingian dynasty of France (founders of the Knights Templar) had birthmarks in the shape of a red cross.

  Michael Tsarion

  Senior, Order, Knights

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• In the long run an opinion often borrows credit from the forbearance of its patrons.

  Henry James

  Running, Long, Credit

  Henry James (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry James (Illustrated)”, p.13592, Delphi Classics

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• Timothy's great value was that he was always willing to go anywhere; and in his hands a message was as safe as if Paul had delivered it himself. Others might be consumed with selfish ambition; but Timothy's one desire was to serve Paul and Jesus Christ. He is the patron saint of all those who are quite content with the second place, so long as they can serve.

  William Barclay

  Jesus, Selfish, Ambition

  WILLIAM BARCLAY “THE LETTER TO THE PHILIPPIANS”, ktab INC.

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• The current health care takeover proposals feature a crucial payoff to Big Labor - a golden exemption from any tax on union members' generous health care benefits. The friends and patrons of Obama may be making out like bandits. But for everyone else, the Democrats' ideological bankruptcy comes at a nauseatingly steep price.

  Michelle Malkin

  Benefits, Care, Unions

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• ...Dean Mohamet, a Muslim landowner from Patna who had followed his British patron to Ireland. There he soon eloped with, and later marries, Jean Daly, from a leading Anglo-Irish family.... In 1807 Dean Mohamet moved to London where he opened the country's first Indian owned curry restaurant, Dean Mohamet's Hindoostanee Coffee House :...He finally decamped to Brighton where he opened what can only be described as Britain's first oriental massage parlour and became "Shampooing Surgeon to Kings George IV and William IV. "

  William Dalrymple

  Country, Kings, Coffee

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• On this day, millions of people...throughout the world will gather to commemorate the life of Patrick, patron saint of Ireland. From his days as a slave in Ireland to his work as missionary years later, St. Patrick demonstrated a courage, commitment, and faith that won the hearts and minds of the Irish people. St. Patrick's Day also serves as a time for people of Irish descent from all traditions and religions to honor their native land and shared heritage. Their devotion to family, faith, and community has strengthened our country's character.

  George W. Bush

  Country, Heart, Character

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• When St Genesius, the patron saint of actors, refused to act in a Roman play that ridiculed Christianity, the legend goes, the producers executed him. It reminds some people of Broadway today.

  Samuel G. Freedman

  Play, People, Saint

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• Right now in Oregon anybody can open a saloon, and hire people to come in and have sex in front of their patrons.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Sex, Oregon, People

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I feel like the traditional patron system meant that you would kiss the ass of one rich person and then hide all of the financial goings-on of your work, and you could pretend you were pure.

  Molly Crabapple

  Kissing, Financial, Rich

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I'm down with the whole patron thing. Bring back the Medicis. Maybe, I'm not just a lefty, but a royalist.

  Jill Sobule

  Lefties, Whole

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I am confident that for the foreseeable future (barring some catastrophic event affecting economic, energy, electrical, and communications systems), many subpopulations that use information intensively (e.g., students, academics, library patrons, white collar workers) will be using some sort of portal information appliance.

  Tom Peters

  Communication, White, Library

  Source: www.researchgate.net

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• I think the sheer attrition of American global domination will create circumstances in which the Chinese will be tempted to reach out for more influence, including in regions in which we have special interests, such as the Middle East, from which they already obtain a great deal of their energy. And that region will be seeking some new superpower patron.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Thinking, Chinese, Special

  Source: www.nytimes.com

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• Let's take Adam Smith, the patron-saint of capitalism, what did he think? He thought the main human instinct was sympathy. In fact, take a look at the word "invisible hand." Which, of course, you learned about, or you think you've learned about. Take a look at the actual way in which he used the phrase. There is almost no relation to what is claimed.

  Noam Chomsky

  Thinking, Invisible Hand, Hands

  Source: pennpoliticalreview.org

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• Religion is always a patron of the arts, but its taste is by no means impeccable.

  Aldous Huxley

  Art, Mean, Religion

  Aldous Huxley (2002). “Complete Essays: 1939-1956”, Ivan R Dee

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