Applause Quotes

Applause is a constant thing in AA. It's how we buy drinks for each other.

A story should, to please, at least seem true, Be apropos, well told, concise, and new: And whenso'er it deviates from these rules, The wise will sleep, and leave applause to fools.

Great power constitutes its own argument, and it never has much trouble drumming up friends, applause, sympathetic exegesis, and a band.

Applause is the most powerful thing... people talk about the sound of it, but what I hear is glee.

The hardest thing is to endure the applause of fools, and patiently suffer the booing, while with the bravissimo of the foolish one would rather strike them between the ears.

Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause without obtaining it, than obtain without deserving it. If it follow them it is well, but they will not deviate to follow it.

I remember walking out in front of that crowd, all the parents faces and the applause, and folding my little self in half and thinking, I could get used to this. And I just never stopped.

I appreciate your applause, but I don't do it for applause. I do it for cash, it's much better.

The melancholy ghosts of dead renown, Whispering faint echoes of the world's applause.

The hunger for applause is the source for all conscious literature and heroism

The applause we give those who are new to society often proceeds from a secret envying of those already established.

It is a dangerous thing for the perfecting of our minds to gain applause by works that do not call forth the whole of our energies; for in that case one generally comes to a standstill.

Who decides when the applause should die down? It seems like it's a group decision; everyone begins to say to themselves at the same time, "Well, okay, that's enough of that."

I consider it an indubitable mark of mean-spiritedness and pitiful vanity to court applause from the pen or tongue of man.

I don't know which I like best. I love the applause on the stage. But pictures are so fascinating - you reach many millions through them. And you make more money too.

Those of you who speak only English, applaud [audience applause]. Those of you who speak only Spanish, applaud [audience applause]. [In mock incredulity] Then how do you know what I just said?

I want to thank you for stopping the applause. It is impossible for me to look humble for any period of time.

Many shining actions owe their success to chance, though the general or statesman receive the applause.

How many watched the President's speech last night? [half-hearted audience applause] How many watched American Idol ? [thundering applause] Okay, there you go! You get the government you deserve.

But if applause throws off your timing, then you're not the kind of comedian I would like to see. All you have to do is stand there and take it.

I'm much more interested in making people laugh than getting applause breaks.

Cyriack, whose Grandsire on the Royal Bench Of British Themis, with no mean applause Pronounced and in his volumes taught our Laws, Which others at their Bar so often wrench

I am taking the applause sign home, putting it in the bedroom.

He only is a great man who can neglect the applause of the multitude and enjoy himself independent of its favor.

Applause was designed to bemuse and confuse you until it explodes into a chorus that reminds us why we love pop music.

anybody's applause is better than nobody's.

Oh, how thunderous the applause must be in Heaven, all those times we are mocked on earth for the sake of His name.

Try to exist even under hardest conditions! That is the effort which deserves the applauses most!

The vulgar and common esteem is seldom happy in hitting right; and I am much mistaken if, amongst the writings of my time, the worst are not those which have most gained the popular applause.

Well, I'm not one of those people who needs the limelight. If I'm performing, that's what I'm doing. If I'm not, I don't long for it. I don't need the approval of an audience, or applause.

I allow myself to honor the man who fought in moments when he had no strength to impose himself, until he managed to impose himself. [Joseph] Ratzinger. Cardinal Ratzinger deserves applause.

There is no applause that so flatters a man as that which he wrings from unwilling throats.

The applause and the favour of our fellow-men Fan even a spark of genius to a flame.

Awards are like applause, and every actor likes to hear applause.

Artists... do not need the applause or condemnation of the critics, the ideas of other artists, or the demands of the collectors.

Too liberal self-accusations are generally but so many traps for acquittal with applause.

All this is a dream to me. Everything, the applause, the fans asking for autographs, the trips, all that is a dream.

Part of me would love to have been a leading lady because there's a lot of glamour that goes with that and a lot of applause, but I've been very blessed.

There's a huge difference between the shallow pleasure of instant applause and the long-lasting impact of true connection.

You can tell by the applause: There's perfunctory applause, there's light applause, and then there's real applause. When it's right, applause sounds like vanilla ice cream with chocolate sauce.

Applause is the beginning of abuse

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 history in a nation's eyes.

In those places of doubt and even darkness I've realized that who I am has nothing to do with wins or losses, applause, or negative criticism. It has to do with whose I am.

We cannot at once catch the applauses of the vulgar and expect the approbation of the wise.

As a film actor, you don't often get that opportunity to meet with your audience and take your applause on stage.

My father upon the Abbey stage, before him a raging crowd. "This Land of Saints," and then as the applause died out, "Of plaster Saints;" his beautiful mischievous head thrown back.

O heart, be at peace, because Nor knave nor dolt can break What's not for their applause, Being for a woman's sake.

Without art the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence transform a yellow spot into sun.

Let that day be lost to us on which we did not dance once I