The effusions of genius are entitled to admiration rather than applause, as they are chiefly the effect of natural endowment, and sometimes… — William Benton Clulow Copy Share Image
Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause without obtaining it, than obtain without deserving it. If it follow them it is well,… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
A popular speaker, however unpopular and insignificant, has only to wind up his speech with half-a-dozen lines of Shakespeare (and to make… — W. S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
During the darkest days of the Revolutionary War, the Continental Congress and George Washington - I call him the first George W.… — James Monroe Copy Share Image
Washington society has always demanded less and given more than any society in this country--demanded less of applause, deference,etiquette, and has accepted… — M. E. W. Sherwood Copy Share Image
Beware of your definition of success: If it has more to do with what other people think of you than it does… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
“If you're going to live here, staying civil is as much a duty as sitting the steps or washing dishes. Now, while… — Scott Lynch Copy Share Image
Years ago, I was performing, and people kept calling out for 'Puppy Love' and I just didn't want to. Then I thought… — Donny Osmond Copy Share Image
The applause of his native land is the richest reward to which the patriot ever aspires. It is this for which 'he… — John Tyler Copy Share Image
I completely understand why a businessman would fire me from 'Saturday Night Live'. Because he was seeing Jay Leno kill 10 minutes… — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
When we were negotiating the ongoing financial period in 2013, I talked myself hoarse. London and Berlin in particular insisted on reducing… — Martin Schulz Copy Share Image
“Carrot started to clap. It wasn't the clap used by middlings to encourage underlings to applaud overlings. It had genuine enthusiasm behind… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“I want to fill a jar with a lot of clapping, and sell my applause next to the applesauce in a grocery… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“Shawn Barr takes only a few steps onto the stage, and all of us are clapping for him. He bends at the… — Holly Goldberg Sloan Copy Share Image
“As a comedian, the more you commit the sin of stupidity, three essential things happen to your life: ~people applaud you incessantly.… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
When I was 3, I recited a poem at a festival in Passaic, New Jersey. The applause was tremendous, and it hit… — Nina Arianda Copy Share Image
I’m really only responsible to make sure that one person is clapping at the end of my life. Because I feel like… — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
For anyone who works in front of an audience there is no thrill quite like that of feeling and hearing the evidence… — Randy West Copy Share Image
I must feel pride in my friend's accomplishments as if they were mine,--and a property in his virtues. I feel as warmly… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The applause of list'ning senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land,… — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image
That's basically what the drive is: "I want to be famous, I want to be noticed, and I want to be approved… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
For 'Iron Man' I had to improv with Robert Downey Jr., which is like going up against LeBron in basketball. At one… — Olivia Munn Copy Share Image
Lives there the man with soul so dead as to disown the wish to merit the people's applause, and having uttered words… — Aulus Persius Flaccus Copy Share Image
O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou has no name to be known by, let us call thee devil…O God, that… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Nice things are done for our own sake, not for the sake of others. The pleasure must reside in the performance, not… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
You've got to trust the ground you're standing on and the work you've done in telling your story. The goal should be… — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
The most iconic applause I've ever seen is from a Michael Jackson show in Japan - his entrance is actually 15 minutes… — Slowthai Copy Share Image
You don't go to a town to present the play and have applause at the end of it, but that's benign conquest.… — Ben Kingsley Copy Share Image
It's fine with me if people want to applaud between movements of a concerto. It doesn't bother me - it's part of… — Hilary Hahn Copy Share Image
I still get a little nervous before performing. You don't want to forget a lyric; you don't want to make a mistake.… — Tony Bennett Copy Share Image
The world is my stage. I try to be good at it, whatever part I'm playing - even in my daily life… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
True loyalty is that quality of service that grows under adversity and expands in defeat. Any street urchin can shout applause in… — Fielding H. Yost Copy Share Image
There's nothing nicer than getting a round of applause for turning up for work. It's amazing! You start work, and people clap.… — James Corden Copy Share Image
Whatever may be the temporary applause of men, or the expressions of public opinion, it may be asserted without fear of contradiction,… — Charles Sumner Copy Share Image
I think what maybe starts out when you're younger as being something about slightly showing off or being given applause because people… — Lesley Sharp Copy Share Image
...people today are so accustomed to pretentious nonsense that they see nothing amiss in reading without understanding, and many of them at… — George Albert Wells Copy Share Image
