Artists... do not need the applause or condemnation of the critics, the ideas of other artists, or the demands of the collectors. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
I've never been one for late nights, which is why I have always preferred making films to theatre. A play takes over… — Charles Dance Copy Share Image
When, you know, I'm busy and Nancy Pelosi is busy with our mop cleaning up somebody else's mess - we don't want… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I'm much more interested in making people laugh than getting applause breaks. — Jim Gaffigan 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
Laughter is much more important than applause. Applause is almost a duty. Laughter is a reward. — Carol Channing Copy Share Image
The first time I acted was in high school in Florida, and when I heard that applause I felt so alive and… — Angela Bassett Copy Share Image
“At present, a good many men engaged in scientific pursuits, and who have signally failed in gaining recognition among their fellows, are… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The applause we give those who are new to society often proceeds from a secret envying of those already established. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld 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
As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Applause felt like approval, and it became a drug that soothed the pain, but only temporarily. — Anita Baker 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
Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
All this is a dream to me. Everything, the applause, the fans asking for autographs, the trips, all that is a dream. — Selena Copy Share Image
Soul of the age! The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage! My Shakespeare , rise; I will not lodge thee by… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
The truly great consider, first, how they may gain the approbation of God, and, secondly, that of their own conscience. Having done… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Temp'rate in every place--abroad, at home, Thence will applause, and hence will profit come; And health from either--he in time prepares For… — George Crabbe 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
I consider it an indubitable mark of mean-spiritedness and pitiful vanity to court applause from the pen or tongue of man. — George Washington Copy Share Image
I do not know whether anyone has ever succeeded in not enjoying praise. And, if we enjoy it, we naturally wants to… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
It is clear that the future of freedom and peace depend on the actions of America. This nation is freedom's home. We… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
When I heard the learn’d astronomer; When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me; When I was shown the… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
How shall I admire, how laugh, how rejoice, how exult, when I behold so many proud monarchs groaning in the lowest abyss… — Tertullian Copy Share Image
