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
It is a dangerous thing for the perfecting of our minds to gain applause by works that do not call forth the… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
I have found so much joy and so much pride in contributing and being a team member, and then stepping back and… — Sara Bareilles Copy Share Image
What makes us exceptional, what makes us America is our allegiance to an idea articulated in a declaration made more than two… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Lives there the man with soul so dead as to disown the wish to merit the people's applause, and having uttered words… — Aulus Persius Flaccus Copy Share Image
A solid and substantial greatness of soul looks down with neglect on the censures and applauses of the multitude. — Joseph Addison 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
I first felt successful when I was 13 and in a show called "Seesaw." I came offstage and heard the applause of… — Giancarlo Esposito Copy Share Image
Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers. Christian Bovee A little praise Goes a great ways. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The grateful applause of the clergy has consecrated the memory of a prince, who indulged their passions and promoted their interest. Constantine… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
There are some whom the applause of the multitude has deluded into the belief that they are really statesmen. — Plato Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The shields were enormous. In 'Julius Caesar,' I died early in the scene and used to fall asleep under the shield until… — Roger Rees Copy Share Image
Oh, how thunderous the applause must be in Heaven, all those times we are mocked on earth for the sake of His… — Mark Hart 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
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
... 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
...people today are so accustomed to pretentious nonsense that they see nothing amiss in reading without understanding, and many of them at… — George Albert Wells Copy Share Image
The eternal task of song can never be finished in a single lifetime. That is the beauty and fascination of the art.… — Nellie Melba Copy Share Image
My advice to you concerning applause is this: enjoy it but never quite believe it — Anonymous Copy Share Image
