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I cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint. -- Michelangelo
France is the only nation in which astoundingly small numbers of civilized patrons reside. -- Gustave Courbet
NARA must provide security at our facilities to protect our public patrons, our staff, and our holdings. -- Allen Weinstein
When I sell liquor, it's called bootlegging; when my patrons serve it on Lake Shore Drive, it's called hospitality. -- Al Capone
I really wish people - maybe it's naive - wish people had priorities and were willing to be artistic patrons. -- Harold Prince
The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital. -- Honore de Balzac
Work is work; wherever I'm working, I do the best I can. If the actual dollars come from investors as opposed to taxpayers and patrons, what's the difference? -- Twyla Tharp
But the Republican right-wing agenda, these people - Arnold and his patrons - felt it could be accomplished by circumventing the Legislature and spending money and organizing and giving sound bites. -- Warren Beatty
Avant-garde architects have never been able to depend on the support of the establishment, since the customary patrons of this most conservative and slowly moving art form have historically been resistant to innovation and experiment. -- Martin Filler
There were a lot of things I loved about working in a library, but mostly I miss the library patrons. I love books, but books are everywhere. Library patrons are as various and oddball and democratic as library books. -- Elizabeth McCracken
People were talking while I was playing, so I got up and left the stage. I've gotten to the point where I'm not really very patient with patrons rapping during the show. And the people were all nice and quiet when I cam back. -- Bruce Hornsby
No one doubts that poison gas was used in Syria. But there is every reason to believe it was used, not by the Syrian Army, but by opposition forces to provoke intervention by their powerful foreign patrons, who would be siding with the fundamentalists. -- Vladimir Putin
The tall building, concentrating man in one place more densely than ever before, similarly concentrates the dilemma of our public architecture at the end of the twentieth century: whether the new forms made possible by technology are doomed by the low calculations of modern patrons and their architects. -- Martin Filler
But I also think that it does create a lot of revenue, but to me it's a temporary revenue stream because it's an industry that, if suddenly gambling started in Massachusetts, then a lot of our patrons who would gamble in New Hampshire if we had it, would disappear. -- Craig Benson
Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business. Large stores, gilt signs, flaming advertisements, will all prove unavailing if you or your employees treat your patrons abruptly. The truth is, the more kind and liberal a man is, the more generous will be the patronage bestowed upon him. -- P. T. Barnum
Now, many public libraries want to lend e-books, not simply to patrons who come in to download, but to anybody with a reading device, a library card and an Internet connection. In this new reality, the only incentive to buy, rather than borrow, an e-book is the fact that the lent copy vanishes after a couple of weeks. -- Scott Turow
Throughout history, ideas need patrons. -- Matt Kibbe
There will never be great architects or great architecture without great patrons. -- Edwin Lutyens
There are nine hundred and ninety-nine patrons of virtue to one virtuous man. -- Henry David Thoreau
In the long run an opinion often borrows credit from the forbearance of its patrons. -- Henry James
The drama's laws the drama's patrons give. For we that live to please must please to live. -- Samuel Johnson
A successful restaurant makes everything in it, including the patrons, seem a little better than they are. -- Mason Cooley
When I sell liquor, its called bootlegging when my patrons serve it on Lake Shore Drive, its called hospitality -- Al Capone
When I sell liquor, it's bootlegging. When my patrons serve it on a silver tray on Lakeshore Drive, it's hospitality. -- Al Capone
One of the nastier trends in library management in recent years is the notion that libraries should be 'responsive to their patrons'. -- Connie Willis
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If I'm lucky, when I paint, first my patrons leave the room, then my dealers, and if I'm really lucky I leave too. -- Edouard Manet
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
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
The main function of the museum has been to serve as a pedestal upon which a clique of socialites pose as patrons of the arts -- Albert C. Barnes
No one could match Howlin' Wolf for the singular ability to rock the house down to the foundation while simultaneously scaring its patrons out of its wits. -- Cub Koda
In medieval times, artists had patrons that supported them and this is a similar thing, ... We're basically saying, 'Wouldn't you like to be a part of this' -- Steve Young
Mere bashfulness without merit is awkward; and merit without modesty, insolent. But modest merit has a double claim to acceptance, and generally meets with as many patrons as beholders. -- Joseph Addison
In an atmosphere of liberty, artists and patrons are free to think the unthinkable and create the audacious; they are free to make both horrendous mistakes and glorious celebrations. -- Ronald Reagan
Capitalist cycle of profit. The rancher sells a cow for profit. The butcher sells cuts for profit. The restaurant sells meals for profit. And the patrons spend money for profit. -- Jarod Kintz
There is no greater sign of a bad cause, than when the patrons of it are reduced to the necessity of making use of the most wicked artifices to support it. -- Joseph Addison
We should try to succeed by merit, not by favor. He who does well will always have patrons enough. [Lat., Virtute ambire oportet, non favitoribus. Sat habet favitorum semper, qui recte facit.] -- Plautus
[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 midst, not as their patrons but as their servants. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The place was packed as we flooded in, all the patrons freezing at the sight of an armed sheriff, two deputies, an Indian, and a construction worker; we probably looked like the Village People. -- Craig Johnson
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 world is something we make through the act of perception. -- Terence McKenna
Twas a cold Yuletide evening, and I wandered the stacks, shelving multiple titles that the patrons brought back. We toiled overtime at our library here, 'cause the powers that be cut our staffing this year. -- David Davis

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