Quotes About Patrons

Just take a look at our patrons, and you'll know Some don't appreciate us, others never will.

Digital-Original just shifts the R&D costs for publishing to the authors and affords us the chance to write the stories we want to write and the stories our patrons want to read.

France is the only nation in which astoundingly small numbers of civilized patrons reside.

For now, they were inseparable. The three of them. Preacher kept Paige and Christopher under his protective wing, as though danger loomed nearby and might strike at any moment. When there were no patrons in the bar, Preacher and Paige sat at one of the tables and talked or played cribbage; if Christopher wasn't napping, he was on Preacher's knee.

no matter how objectionable the character of a paper may be, it is always a trifle better than the patrons on whom it relies for its support.

There will never be great architects or great architecture without great patrons.

The wealthy are always surrounded by hangers-on science and art are as well.

Love? I must be drunk. Shit, I'm drinking water tonight. It must be spiked. That's it. They must spike their bottled water here to help patrons sit through the disco revival. There is no way I said the word love while talking about any woman besides my mother.

Adult librarians are like lazy bakers: their patrons want a jelly doughnut, so they give them a jelly doughnut. Children's librarians are ambitious bakers: 'You like the jelly doughnut? I'll get you a jelly doughnut. But you should try my cruller, too. My cruller is gonna blow your mind, kid.

Its front sags against its neighbor to the right, clinging for support like one of its own drunken patrons.

He passed a hair salon called Snip Away, which sounded more like a vasectomy clinic than a beauty parlor. The Snip Away beauticians were either reformed mall girls or guys named Mario whose fathers were named Sal. Two patrons sat in a window - one getting a perm, the other a bleach job. Who wanted that? Who wanted to sit in a window and have the whole world watch you get your hair done?

The trappings might have been eighties New Wave, but this was still a working-class bar, where hardy men and seen-too-much women came after a full day of labor and damned if it wasn't deserved. You couldn't fake belonging here. I might be wearing jeans, but I still didn't come close to fitting in. Win, however, stuck out like a Twinkie at a health club. Patrons

They stumbled out the door and to the diner down the street. Most of the patrons looked even more hungover than they did. The waitress, a seen-too-much big-hair, brought them an urn of coffee before they even asked. She was on the plump side, just the way Fester liked them. He gave her a smile and said, "Hi, sugar." She

Come now, Susina, remember you were always a saint when it came to a handsome face." "Not when it comes to yours, you demi-demon." "Ah, Susina. And my charming friend dying at your door." "I am not the hospital. I do not take the wounded in." "This once." "I have patrons and guests. You be circumspect." "As a monk, dear lady of delights." "Pah.

There are nine hundred and ninety-nine patrons of virtue to one virtuous man.

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.

Hey, would you look at that shit? I turned on my heel. The patrons who'd fled at the first hint of trouble had come back and were enjoying the spectacle. Clear out! I barked. They paid me no mind. Asshole innocent bystanders.

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.

When I sell liquor, it's called bootlegging; when my patrons serve it on Lake Shore Drive, it's called hospitality.

Now, with the lake polluted by industry and with the gradual influx of shiftless spacemen, the Cosmos had been given over to the most basic, simple need of its new patrons—rocket juice!

The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give. For we that live to please, must please to live.

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.

Althea Warren] believed librarians' single greatest responsibility was to read voraciously. Perhaps she advocated this in order to be sure librarians knew their books, but for Warren, this directive was based in emotion and philosophy: She wanted librarians to simply adore the act of reading for its own sake, and perhaps, as a collateral benefit, they could inspire their patrons to read with a similarly insatiable appetite

After the stock market crash, book circulation rose by sixty percent, and the number of patrons almost doubled.