Expectations Quote by Anthony Liccione

“The sound of one hand clapping is thunderous”

— johnjwillard

“I love the sound of one hand clapping.”

— Sienna McQuillen

“I know the sound of one hand clapping”

— Bob

“They've had the old clap-yo'-hands so many times it amounts to applause.”

— Truman Capote

“The wider you spread your fingers apart while clapping is equal to the amount of retarded you look while clapping.”

— Christy Leigh Stewart

“It’s impossible for me to applaud your successes when my hands are too busy patting myself on the back. But if I clap for…

— Jarod Kintz

A truly extraordinary work: vivid, passionate and utterly compelling. The Sound of One Hand Clapping is raw as a wound. It opens a world…

— Niall Williams

It takes two hands to clap.

— Jiang Zemin

“A dutiful wife enables a good man to add her hands to his own for self-applause.”

— Tom Morrison

“She celebrated frustration by clapping her hands.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

You know the sound of two hands clapping; tell me, what is the sound of one hand?

— Hakuin Ekaku

Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

— Edmund Burke