“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
“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
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
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’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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
“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
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
“I walked out and I got a standing ovation from all these people, and it's like a creepy thing... either you've become… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Then he commandeered the floor, shooting back and forth like some hot Latin lover. When he finished, everyone applauded. He could have… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
Conscience is a judge in every man's breast, which none can cheat or corrupt, and perhaps the only incorrupt thing about him;… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
Well, I'm not one of those people who needs the limelight. If I'm performing, that's what I'm doing. If I'm not, I… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
The skit was very successful based on the applause. After that show, the three of us decided to get together and try… — Phil Harris Copy Share Image
Humans cannot fly, but they can get the flying feeling. All they need to do is go out at night into a… — Hilary McKay Copy Share Image
I realised a little bit to my astonishment that I can give a lecture for a thousand people, and there will be… — Edmund Hillary Copy Share Image
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
If solitude deprives of the benefit of advice, it also excludes from the mischief of flattery. But the absence of others' applause… — William Benton Clulow Copy Share Image
One picture in ten thousand, perhaps, ought to live in the applause of mankind, from generation to generation until the colors fade… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
A lot of people say you've got all the loving in the world when you walk out on stage. But hell, that… — Patsy Cline Copy Share Image
All of the awards, applause, Twitter followers, shoes, it will all go away eventually. But if I can leave the world slightly… — Debby Ryan Copy Share Image
... and people are to march around the church to commemorate the event, Palm Sunday, when Jesus rode into Jerusalem and was… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
I'll privily away; I love the people, But do not like to stage me to their eyes; Though it do well, I… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
It takes real courage to do battle in the unspectacular task. We always listen for the applause of our co-workers. He is… — Alice Foote MacDougall Copy Share Image
Proportion thy charity to the strength of thine estate, lest God proportion thine estate to the weakness of thy charity. Let the… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
I have been trying to find out exactly when listeners and performers decided that applause between movements would not be allowed, but… — Emanuel Ax Copy Share Image
Those who turn against the Church do so to play to their own private gallery, but when, one day, the applause has… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
