Quotes About Patrons

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.

Over the years, he has become a sort of library himsel: He is the repository of endless stories about the library's most interesting patrons.

She deliberately cultivated relationships with natural philosophers, publishers, and patrons as well as artists....,contacts who would help her build her business.

I know it's not my 'job' to read poems when some of these patrons have a bad day but it's a library. It's an honor to be in here and we can do so much and I just…

Entering a club is an insufferable two-way street and the patrons are just as guilty as the doormen.

I have long believed that the ghosts of the past still linger here. They are stark reminders of the trauma and terror experienced by the unlucky patrons who had tickets to an afternoon matinee that day – and a chilling remembrance of a tragedy that should never be forgotten.

A silent Library is a sad Library. A Library without patrons on whom to pile books and tales and knowing and magazines full of up-to-the-minute politickal fashions and atlases and plays in pentameter! A Library should be full of exclamations!

Smade's patrons were diverse: explorers, locaters, Jarnell technicians, private agents in search of lost men or stolen treasure, more rarely an IPCC representative, or "weasel", in the argot of the Beyond. Others were folk more dire, and these were of as many sorts as there were crimes to be named. Making a virtue of necessity, Smade presented the same face to all.

NARA must provide security at our facilities to protect our public patrons, our staff, and our holdings.

Walking through the resturant,looking like six feet three inches of branded,terrifying sex appeal was Alexander.The other patrons seemed to either shrink in his presence or,and this was mostly the female clientele,stare covetously while their dates slumped in their chairs unable to compete with the godforce walking past.Even the staff stopped what they were doing and had the good sense to look nervous.

bring in any of the habitués of that drug house

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.

with patrons who wasted their quarters on Lynyrd Skynyrd all night long.

One of the nastier trends in library management in recent years is the notion that libraries should be responsive to their patrons. This means having dozens of copies of The Bridges of Madison County and Danielle Steele, and a consequent shortage of shelf space, to cope with which librarians have taken to purging books that haven't been checked out lately.

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.

But even if merely designed to amuse his patrons, they hint at something deeper, providing a glimpse into the psychological torments swirling in the psyche of the artist playing the entertainer. 39

Cultural blackmail has gone on for decades, with the artist loudly blaspheming everything his patrons hold dear-while suckling at their teats.

Night tennis began at the United States Open in 1975 with certain stars trying to beg out and certain patrons trying to dump unwanted tickets on scalpers.

Opera needs a major makeover; the large opera houses are too in thrall to their conservative patrons.

The room had the seedy, humiliated look of a bar seen in direct sunlight, sticky and thoroughly initialed by knife- and claw-wielding patrons. The floor was paved with old round millstones lightly covered with a scattering of straw, the chinks between them filled in with packed dirt. Neither

Dive bars rely on a steady stream of neighborhood regulars to keep their doors open.

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

Artists need a lot of collectors, all kinds of collectors, buying their art.

An artist that makes art merely to meet a demand is a slave to what his patrons wants to see, or, hear.