Life starts out with everyone clapping when you take a poo…

Clapping the longest during an assembly because you're a fearless bastard.

— Anonymous

“In due course I would learn how to cover up for this event, but on that awful day I knew of nothing to say…

— Karen Pryor

“I did not approve of your action—I was merely congratulating myself. What you mistook for clapping was merely me giving myself multiple high fives.”

— Jarod Kintz

I believe in myself like a five-year-old believes in himself. They say look at me, look at me! Then they do a flip in…

— Kanye West

Being a parent means enthusiastically clapping for any ordinary activity of your child.

— Anonymous

“Crusty and Cross here,' he says and I grin. He’s still playful Fifty. My inner goddess is clapping her hands with glee like a…

— E.L. James

Love is not shown by giving your toddler a car. It's better demonstrated by clapping as she bangs on pots or singing to her…

— Emily Yoffe

Hope to the last!" said Newman, clapping him on the back. "Always hope; that's dear boy. Never leave off hoping; it don't answer. Do…

— Charles Dickens

There's always the cliche of the choir shouting and clapping. OK, you have to do that, but there's also introspective parts, parts where you…

— Wynton Marsalis

There was a joke in Czechoslovakia: The Communist Party dance, it's one step forward, two steps backward, and everyone is still clapping.

— Martina Navratilova

Stand-up came naturally to me because people in Ireland talk. But that's not talking on panel shows; it is structured fun. It reminds me…

— Dylan Moran

“Oh, well that can’t have been me,” Harry smiled grimly, clapping a hand on Malone’s shoulder as he moved past the big man. “You’re…

— Stephen England

“My heart applauds inside my ears, first like a roaring crowd, then slows and slows until it's a solitary person, clapping with unbridled sarcasm.…

— Markus Zusak

A wise man once asked me, "What is the sound of one hand clapping?" I thought for a minute, then I slapped him across…

— Matthew Diamond

Seeing all the people smiling and laughing and clapping for me... it's such a wonderful feeling.

— Anthony Gonzalez