James May

There's a lot of politics in television and a lot of in-fighting and all that sort of stuff, but in the end, we are purveyors of entertainment. Viewers are not really bogged down in who's doing what and who hates who and who's doing best in the ratings. They watch television to be entertained.

English Journalist

Graham Swift

I think the purveyors of e-books are only too happy for this atmosphere of 'everything belongs to everybody' to increase because it means they don't have to think so much about the original maker of the thing, or they can get away with paying them less.

British Author

Thomas Keller

Hopefully, imparting what's important to me, respect for the food and that information about the purveyors, people will realize that for a restaurant to be good, so many pieces have to come together.

American Chef

Ben Carson

We have the purveyors of hatred who take every single incident between people of two races and try to make a race war out of it and drive wedges into people. And this does not need to be done.

American Scientist

Anthea Butler

The prosperity gospel and its purveyors are worldwide and account for the rapid growth of Pentecostalism, the global religious movement prosperity preachers come from.

American Educator

Fred Rogers

I believe that those of us who are the producers and purveyors of television, I believe that we are the servants of this nation.

American Celebrity

Andrew Davies

I'm absolutely delighted if people think of me as a reliable purveyor of quality period stuff.

British Writer

Ephraim Mirvis

We protest to our last breath against the purveyors of hatred, cruelty and violence.

South African Clergyman

Danny Glover

One of the main purveyors of violence in this world has been this country.

American Actor

Nina Easton

We like to think of women as peacemakers, not purveyors of violence.

American Journalist

Purveyor refers broadly to providers of items or services, not limited to selling.

Broad Usage

Often implies quality or a certain expertise in the items or services provided.

Positive Nuance

Can be used metaphorically to mean a source of intangible things like information or rumors.

Metaphorical Use

 But we need to get the government to work with all of the fast food purveyors and the restaurant industry, and over a five, six, seven year period wean of us off the extreme amounts of fat, sugar and all the other non-food ingredients. Now, also, back to the sort of big labeling, I said earlier, is an absolute farce and has got to be sorted.

Teach every child about...

 and I call up my fish purveyor and I was like, 'Michael, what exactly did you send me?' My language was of course perfectly gentlemanly, proper and prim. And he said, "Well, you know, we had a bad day of fishing but, you know, I didn't want to leave you in the lurch, so, we just sent you all the left over bait.