#patron

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

— Al Capone

#drive #hospitality #i #lake #liquor

I also get fed up with the fact that casting agents and directors have this impression of me as being frail and petite. I find it very patronizing. I'm quite beefy and strong. I was a gymnast in school and I have lots of muscles. ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

#also #being #casting #directors #fact

Don't patronize the chain bookstores. Every time I see some author scheduled to read and sign his books at a chain bookstore, I feel like telling him he's stabbing the independent bookstores in the back. ↗

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#back #books #bookstore #bookstores #chain

People are patronizing the theatres with renewed enthusiasm - there is an entire picnic-like attitude when families go out to see movies, which is a very good sign. They want to see larger-than-life characters on the big screen and not just watch movies on television or on DVDs. ↗

— Salman Khan

#big #big screen #characters #dvds #enthusiasm

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

— Allen Weinstein

#holdings #must #nara #our #patrons

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

#him #i #man #much #only

See Everything, tolerate a lot and correct one thing at a time. ↗

— Saint Bernard

#life #patron-of-the-arts #writing #life

Female schools might be comprised in the list of those worthy the public patronage, with great propriety. ↗

— Joseph Lancaster

#female #great #list #might #patronage

He has such a patronizing tone and manner, and such a sarcastic sense of humor. I found him rather brutal, a kind of elegant brutality which appealed. No, I think he came pretty much off the page. ↗

— Jeremy Northam

#brutal #brutality #came #elegant #found

Each of the Arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a Muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them. ↗

— Eliza Farnham

#arts #being #each #embellish #found