Did I play my role well? If so, then applause, because the comedy is finished! — Augustus Copy Share Image
We believe... that the applause of silence is the only kind that counts. — Alfred Jarry Copy Share Image
I work for a cause, not for applause. I live life to express, not to impress. — Cv Pillay Copy Share Image
“They've had the old clap-yo'-hands so many times it amounts to applause.” — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
Sometimes I wish that applause would come just a bit later, when it is so beautifully hushed that I feel like holding… — Emanuel Ax Copy Share Image
Applause lavished at a whim and without discernment, often proves the ruin of young people training for a stage career. — Jean-Georges Noverre Copy Share Image
“A successful person expects a clapping hand, an ailing person expects an open hand.” — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
“To Frost House," I said. "To Frost House," they echoed. We clunked mugs and drank, to the applause of a deep rumble… — Marianna Baer 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
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
The applause from the audience gives me a high. Probably that's what has kept my love for theatre intact. — Y. G. Mahendran Copy Share Image
Life is a play that does not allow testing. So, sing, cry, dance, laugh and live intensely, before the curtain closes and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The vulgar and common esteem is seldom happy in hitting right; and I am much mistaken if, amongst the writings of my… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
How many of us, who are engaged in the Lord's holy service, are secretly cherishing some proud purpose of excelling other men,… — F.B. Meyer Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The only sure way of avoiding these evils [vanity and boasting] is never to speak of yourself at all. But when, historically,… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
A story should, to please, at least seem true, Be apropos, well told, concise, and new: And whenso'er it deviates from these… — Benjamin Stillingfleet Copy Share Image
It's unequivocal: everyplace I go, the one line I can use in a speech that I know will get applause is when… — Seth Moulton Copy Share Image
People come into public life for different reasons. None of us are ego-challenged, I think, or we probably wouldn't be doing what… — Evan Bayh Copy Share Image
Take a bow. Hear the applause? My heart is broken and youre the cause. I played the game and it looks like… — Blondie Copy Share Image
Is success just about winning? Acclaim? Trophies? Wealth? Our personal happiness or satisfaction? I have been blessed to experience some of these… — Tom Osborne Copy Share Image
We will not have great questions decided by irrelevant agencies, Our husbands will not come to us, reeking with carnage, for caresses… — Julia Ward Howe 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
Humility responds to God's will-to the fear of His judgments and to the needs of those around us. To the proud, the… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
If experience be consulted, it will be found there is no action, however abominable, that has not received the applause of some… — Baron d'Holbach 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
A wise man's kingdom is his own breast: or, if he ever looks farther, it will only be to the judgment of… — David Hume 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
I thank you in advance for the great round of applause I'm about to get. — Bo Diddley Copy Share Image
The hunger for applause is the source for all conscious literature and heroism — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
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