Applause Quotes · Page 2

As a performer, we look for applause.

— Sushmita Sen

Applause is a receipt, not a bill.

— Dale Carnegie

I always get more applause than votes.

— Norman Thomas

Applause waits on success.

— Benjamin Franklin

Applause is the beginning of abuse

— Ted Hughes

I need the applause.

— Jerry Lewis

A round of applause for your article.

— Laptop Review

From self alone expect applause.

— Marion LeRoy Burton

A round of applause for your article. Fantastic.

— Social

I am taking the applause sign home, putting it in the bedroom.

— Johnny Carson

You must be prepared to work always without applause.

— Ernest Hemingway

It is harder to avoid censure than to gain applause.

— David Hume

“You learned right away that applause sounds like love.”

— Ava Dellaira

A round of applause for your blog article. Will read on...

— Social

The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.

— Baltasar Gracian

People who love the applause should have it, but I don't care for it.

— Ry Cooder

To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.

— Franz Grillparzer

Applause is the most powerful thing... people talk about the sound of it, but what I hear is glee.

— C. C. H. Pounder

“The dance is over, the applause subsided, but the joy and feeling will stay with you forever.”

— W.M. Tory

Most people like praise . . . When it is really deserved, most people expand under it into richer and better selves.

— Joseph P. Farrell

A man sitting monkey-like on the rooftop of his brain is due the applause such feats earn him.

— Aberjhani

“I think you need to know that your hope hasn't been in vain. That there will be a happy ending. That when…

— Susan May Warren

The lights go down, you hear the applause and you're up there, and then everything else is forgotten.

— Warren Cuccurullo

When you can be your own best audience and when your applause is the best applause you know of, youre in good…

— L. Ron Hubbard

The hardest thing is to endure the applause of fools, and patiently suffer the booing, while with the bravissimo of the foolish…

— Carl Maria von Weber

The Renaissance… was based on a new idea of the importance of the individual. But this was a fragile foundation, because individuals…

— Theodore Zeldin

As they marched, the crowds lining the route broke into applause, a sweet and deeply felt spontaneous pattering that was a sort…

— Lance Morrow

Sound, sound the trump of Fame! Let Washington's great name Ring through the world with loud applause; Let every clime to Freedom…

— Joseph Hopkinson

“astonishment or admiration: “Wow!” he cried enthusiastically.   n. a sensational success: your play's a wow.   v. [trans.] impress and excite…

— Oxford University Press

My dad was a theater actor, so I would follow him backstage. And my mom was a casting director. The moment I…

— Christian Slater

I don't care for the applause one gets by saying what others are thinking; I want actually to change people's thoughts. Power…

— Bertrand Russell

You know how it is in the symphony when you are listening to the symphony, the last notes die away, and there's…

— Karen Armstrong

Only in the theatre was it possible to see the performers and to be warmed by their personal charm, to respond to…

— Robertson Davies

Still, I also know that most people, including me, tend to applaud the wrong things: the showy, dramatic record-setting sprint rather than…

— Chris Hadfield

Of all the classes of men, I dislike the most those who make their livings by talking - actors, clergymen, politicians, pedagogues,…

— H. L. Mencken

And while I'm on the subject, let me say something about Harry Potter. [Gravels her voice.] Warlocks are enemies of God!! [Back…

— Becky Fischer

I'm not afraid to compete. It's just the opposite. Don't you see that? I'm afraid I will compete — that's what scares…

— Anonymous

A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart; his next, to escape the censures of the…

— Joseph Addison

God gave music the power to carry his light into the darkness. That’s a mighty privilege. It means intentionally telling stories and…

— Andrew Peterson

Applause is an instinctive, unconscious act expressing the sympathy between actors and audience. Just as our art demands more instinct than intellect…

— Ellen Terry