Quotes with patron

  • Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron - namely, that he is a blockhead.

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  • Ezra Pound If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Adam Savage Let's get on our knees and pray. I don't know to whom. Is there a patron saint of ballistics gel?
    Adam Savage
    American special effects designer and fabricator (1967 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson Patron: One who countenances, supports or protects. Commonly a wretch who supports with insolence, and is paid with flattery.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • A. N. Wilson 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, but as a man.
    A. N. Wilson
    English writer and columnist (1950 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, toil, envy, want, and patron.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron - namely, that he is a blockhead.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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