Patronage Def Quotes & Sayings

I invented that little rhyme about 'One Ring to rule them all', I remember, in the bath one day. — J.R.R. Tolkien

If you want to solve very complex problems, you will have to end up letting machines work out a lot of the details for themselves, and in ways that we don't understand what they are doing. — Joshua Lederberg

The numerous ecstatic traditions - including free jazz and funk - have all been great inspirations. — David First

I look really young. I always get carded at bars. No one believes that I'm over 18, let alone over 21. — Monica Keena

I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers. — Irwin Thomas

I am for maximum supervision and minimum regulation. — George Soros

I don't know what you could say about a day in which you have seen four beautiful sunsets. — John Glenn

I was always very curious as a young man about why older writers who I met seemed so indifferent to what was going on, whereas I, in my 20s, was reading everything. Everything seemed important. But they were only interested in the writers they admired when they were young, and I didn't understand it then, but now, now I understand it. — Paul Auster

You can't get it all right all the time, but you can try your best. If you've done that, all that's left is to accept your shortcomings and have the courage to try to overcome them. — Idina Menzel

The accession to power in Pyongyang of Kim Jong Un, son of Kim Jong Il and grandson of Kim Il Sung, is a unique achievement in world politics. — Elliott Abrams

Nigerians are everywhere. There's an old joke, particularly about the Ibos, that when you finally land on Mars, you're going to find a Nigerian there who has a shop that is selling Coca-Cola
who took a speculative trip 20 years ago and has been waiting for everyone else to arrive. — Chris Abani

Have you seen a symphony orchestra? There is a person at the back carrying a triangle. Now and again the conductor will point to him or her and that person will play "ting." That might seem so insignificant, but in the conception of the composer something irreplaceable would be lost to the total beauty of the symphony if that "ting" did not happen. — Desmond Tutu