Reception Quotes
114 Reception quotes by 108 unique authors
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Existence is not itself a good thing, that we should spend a lifetime securing its necessaries: a life spent, however victoriously, in securing the necessaries…
— A. E. Housman
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Victoria heard across the wedding reception dance floor "You're loveable"!
— Danielle Steel
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Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind reception…
— Jonathan Swift
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This was why I was here. This was why I would take whatever reception waited for me when I got back. Because, underneath all the…
— Stephenie Meyer
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...We have seven people who knew the skewers were there: the wedding planner, the reception hall manager, the dressmaker, the florist, the veil-maker, the cake-maker,…
— Linda Howard
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Weird. I rang it three times.” – Nekoda “There might be something with out condo.” ‘Other than the fact that it lived under a perpetual…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Once you cross into the next loyal kingdom, however... be warned. You may not find such a warm reception. The Mimosa Land and its residents…
— Richelle Mead
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If intelligence were a television set, it would be an early black-and-white model with poor reception, so that much of the picture was gray and…
— Madeleine Albright
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I expected this reception. All men hate the wretched; how, then, must I be hated, who am miserable beyond all living things! Yet you, my…
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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I don’t like the idea of “understanding” a film. I don’t believe that rational understanding is an essential element in the reception of any work…
— Federico Fellini
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The end of a wedding reception is always so depressing. And only the bride and groom are spared, jetting off into the sunset while the…
— Sarah Dessen
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When your hero falls from grace, all fairy tales are uncovered Myth exposed and pain magnified, the grace pays uncovered He told me to be…
— Tupac Shakur
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Were it not for the shepherds, there would have been no reception. And were it not for a group of stargazers, there would have been…
— Max Lucado
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Repenting and coming unto Christ through the covenants and ordinances of salvation are prerequisite to and a preparation for being sanctified by the reception of…
— David A. Bednar
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I challenge those who are in business and other professions to see that there are copies of the Book of Mormon in their reception rooms.
— Ezra Taft Benson
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I am particularly interested in creating a relationship between ideas of reception in conceptual art and theater.
— Tim Crouch
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Americans hate their cable companies - for bumbling installers, on-again-off-again transmissions, peculiar channel selections, and indifferent customer service. The only thing cable subscribers hate more…
— Virginia Postrel
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Outside their country, Hungarian directors have had, from the critics at least, a friendly reception.
— Tibor Fischer
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Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion. Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there…
— Remy de Gourmont
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I am certainly not arguing for the de facto autonomy of the individual work, even though there is much to be said for making the…
— Brian Ferneyhough
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You could not receive a young man in your room; you might be permitted to have him to tea in one of the public reception…
— Dora Russell
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Be the responsibility on their heads who raise this novel and extraordinary question of reception, going to the unconstitutional abridgment, as I conceive, of the…
— Caleb Cushing
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Publishing is a very mysterious business. It is hard to predict what kind of sale or reception a book will have, and advertising seems to…
— Thomas Wolfe
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I was worried when I returned that I might be booed or barracked. Nobody has waved fivers at me. I am touched by the reception…
— John Higgins
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Turkey Hollow is a small country town in Sullivan County, a remote region of the Catskill Mountains. Surrounded by forests, it counts 10 full-time residents,…
— David Mixner
Who Wrote These Reception Quotes
108 authors contributed a total of 114 Reception Quotes, led by these top contributors: