“A successful person expects a clapping hand, an ailing person expects an open hand.” — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
Applause lavished at a whim and without discernment, often proves the ruin of young people training for a stage career. — Jean-Georges Noverre Copy Share Image
“To Frost House," I said. "To Frost House," they echoed. We clunked mugs and drank, to the applause of a deep rumble… — Marianna Baer Copy Share Image
“If you are a magician then you can always do a lot more magic than you think you can.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
When I hear the public's applause, I don't know where the voice comes from, but it does for three hours. — Vicente Fernandez Copy Share Image
“A moment went by, and then every cell in Billy's body shook him with ravenous gratitude and applause.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
As a film actor, you don't often get that opportunity to meet with your audience and take your applause on stage. — Warwick Davis Copy Share Image
He that applauds him who does not deserve praise, is endeavoring to deceive the public; he that hisses in malice or sport,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Applause, it's very nice, of course. But when you're giving, and creating, and then there is the silence of everyone sitting there,… — Anna Netrebko Copy Share Image
I love to make people laugh and love to make people smile. The first time I performed and heard the applause, that… — James Monroe Iglehart Copy Share Image
Performing a play or a musical or something is obviously an incredible rush, but I don't think you get that immediate response… — Lolly Adefope Copy Share Image
I don't have the desire that I think a lot of performers feel - to get the applause. It's not life or… — Olivia Newton-John Copy Share Image
I would love to have an ocean of love right now. That said, the number-one rule of acting is, 'Do not seek… — Chadwick Boseman Copy Share Image
Fiordland, a vast tract of mountainous terrain that occupies the south-west corner of South Island, New Zealand, is one of the most… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Laissez-faire, Supply-and-demand, - one begins to be weary of all that. Leave all to egoism, to ravenous greed of money, of pleasure,… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“The room was hushed for a heartbeat more, and then my classmates started to clap. The clapping was modest and didn't shake… — Amy Harmon Copy Share Image
If you don't compromise your gift, if you write each day as well as you can, and then submit your work and… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys. but to move an audience in such a… — Alicia Markova Copy Share Image
Vanity, or to call it by a gentler name, the desire of admiration and applause, is, perhaps, the most universal principle of… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
When we speak to drunkards, worldlings, or any ignorant, unconverted men, we disgrace them as in that condition to the utmost, and… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
The scent organ was playing a delightfully refreshing Herbal Capriccio - rippling arpeggios of thyme and lavender, of rosemary, basil, myrtle, tarragon;… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Comedy crowds - we always want to come out and ask you, 'How you feeling?' We always say that, 'By a round… — Dane Cook Copy Share Image
I've tried, at every step in life, to find a lesson. And accepting criticism with the same grace that you do the… — Dan Marino Copy Share Image
Man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, and next to escape the censures of the world.… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The hunger for applause is the source for all conscious literature and heroism — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image