“I would rather have as my patron a host of anonymous citizens digging into their own pockets for the price of a book or a magazine than a small body of enlightened and responsible men administering public funds. I would rather chance my personal vision of truth striking home here and there in the chaos of publication that exists than attempt to filter it through a few sets of official, honorably public-spirited scruples.”
John Updike
“Look closely at those who patronize you. Half are unfeeling, half untaught.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“I find Paula patronizing. It's as simple as that. Paula is more damaging than I am to these contestants because a lot of people just shouldn't be singing for a living.”
Simon Cowell
“Too many people grow up. That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up. They forget. They don't remember what it's like to be 12 years old. They patronize, they treat children as inferiors. Well I won't do that.”
Walt Disney
“I cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint.”
Michelangelo
“She was a patron saint of the peripheral.”
Jane Howard
“It allows E-Z Pass patrons to get where they're going more quickly.”
Sarah Kampf
