Applause Quotes

317 quotes by 257 authors

Occasionally if you do something extraordinary, the crew responds with spontaneous applause, but that's very rare. — Claudia Christian
As a film actor, you don't often get that opportunity to meet with your audience and take your applause on stage. — Warwick Davis
The first time I acted was in high school in Florida, and when I heard that applause I felt so alive and felt that electricity… — Angela Bassett
I was born and raised to entertain other people. I've heard laughter and applause and known a lot of sorrow. Everything about me is based… — Donald O'Connor
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. We… — George W. Bush
The applause of list'ning senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their… — Thomas Gray
I have written my work, not as an essay which is to win the applause of the moment, but as a possession for all time — Thucydides
The absence of romance from my history will, I fear, detract somewhat from its interest; but if it be judged useful by those inquirers who… — Thucydides
When we speak to drunkards, worldlings, or any ignorant, unconverted men, we disgrace them as in that condition to the utmost, and lay it on… — Richard Baxter
You'll hear a lot of applause in your life, but none will mean more to you than that applause from your peers. I hope each… — Andre Agassi
Laissez-faire, supply and demand-one begins to be weary of all that. Leave all to egotism, to ravenous greed of money, of pleasure, of applause-it is… — Thomas Carlyle
Applause, mingled with boos and hisses, is about all that the average voter is able or willing to contribute to public life. — Elmer Davis
What makes us exceptional, what makes us America is our allegiance to an idea articulated in a declaration made more than two centuries ago. We… — Barack Obama
Humility responds to God's will-to the fear of His judgments and to the needs of those around us. To the proud, the applause of the… — Ezra Taft Benson
Applause lavished at a whim and without discernment, often proves the ruin of young people training for a stage career. — Jean-Georges Noverre
Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music as an excuse for its ovations. — Alfred Jarry
From then on, I realized this is what I want to do, what I'm supposed to do: Giving energy and receiving it back through applause.… — Erykah Badu
I always get more applause than votes. — Norman Thomas
I have discovered three things which know no geographical borders - classical music, American jazz, and applause as the sign of the public's favor. — Jascha Heifetz
As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever… — Edward Gibbon

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