Patron Quotes

• ...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
  • Family
  • House
  • Moved

• The public man needs but one patron, namely, the lucky moment.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Lucky
  • Patron
  • Public Man

• 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
  • Stills
  • Bigs
  • Election

• As she walked, she breathed a quick benediction to the patron saint of sleuthing. "Nancy Drew," she whispered, "be with me now.

  

  Colin Meloy
  • She
  • Benediction
  • Nancy Drew

• If people want new music then they are going to have to figure out a way to be patrons of the arts. And they will.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • People
  • Music
  • Art

• I'm almost mentally incapable of drawing a distinction between art I make for the masses, or my clients, and that I make for myself. It all flows from what gets me off, ultimately. It's my viewpoint, and I don't particularly care if it gets seen by gallery patrons, magazine readers, internet audiences, or my friends, as long as it gets seen.

  

  Clayton James Cubitt
  • Long
  • Art
  • Care

• 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 Brownsville Station
  • House
  • Patron

• The notion that the great artist requires a great patron has been around since the Pharaohs. That the born patron also needs an artist to patronize is a less-studied phenomenon.

  

  Shana Alexander
  • Needs
  • Born
  • Phenomenon

• 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
  • World
  • Perception
  • Walks