Applause Quote by Ambrose Bierce Download Open image “applause, n. The echo of a platitude.” — Ambrose Bierce ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Applause Audience Echoes Platitudes
When you're up there on stage, it's applause that you want, not platitudes. — Liz Carr Copy Share Image
There is always a certain noise in applause: even in the applause we give ourselves. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“An applause is not just the recognition of good performance, but its proof of being different than the crowd.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
One gains universal applause who mingles the useful with the agreeable, at once delighting and instructing the reader. — Horace Copy Share Image
Applause, it's very nice, of course. But when you're giving, and creating, and then there is the silence of everyone sitting there, listening, waiting,… — Anna Netrebko Copy Share Image
All of us love applause, and so we should - it means that the listener likes us! — Emanuel Ax Copy Share Image
OBSESSED, p.p. Vexed by an evil spirit, like the Gadarene swine and other critics. Obsession was once more common than it is now. Arasthus… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
DECIDE, v.i. To succumb to the preponderance of one set of influences over another set. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
IMMORAL, adj. Inexpedient. Whatever in the long run and with regard to the greater number of instances men find to be generally inexpedient comes… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
REVIEW, v.t. To set your wisdom (holding not a doubt of it./ Although in truth there's neither bone nor skin to it)/ At work… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
CLOCK, n. A machine of great moral value to man, allaying his concern for the future by reminding him what a lot of time… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
RUBBISH, n. Worthless matter, such as the religions, philosophies, literatures, arts and sciences of the tribes infesting the regions lying due south from Boreaplas. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
There was never a genius who was not thought a fool until he disclosed himself; whereas he is a fool then only. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
WHANGDEPOOTENAWAH, n. In the Ojibwa tongue, disaster; an unexpected affliction that strikes hard. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
RIDICULE, n. Words designed to show that the person of whom they are uttered is devoid of the dignity of character distinguishing him who… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“An applause is not just the recognition of good performance, but its proof of being different than the crowd.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
All the shows we did pre-airdate, and I'd come out - "Rob Lowe!" - and it was [Offers bored applause.] After the show aired?… — Rob Lowe Copy Share Image
“Those who do soul work, who want the searing truth more than solace or applause, know each other right away. Those who want something… — Rumi 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, and freedom's defender.… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
The logic of worldly success rests on a fallacy: the strange error that our perfection depends on the thoughts and opinions and applause of… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
If anyone ever boos you off stage, that is simply applause from ghosts. — Sharon Needles Copy Share Image
“A magician must always value his magic effects more than himself, because after few years audience may not remember his name but they will… — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
The beauteous dragonfly's dancing By the waves of the rivulet glancing; She dances here and she dances there, The glimmering, glittering flutterer fair. Full… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
And I tell my audience, you know, give the real stars a round of applause. Because without them I'm nobody. So I learned so… — Little Milton Copy Share Image
When you hear bacon cooking....that sizzling sound isn't the fat cooking....that's applause. — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
