Applause Quotations

Applause is a receipt, not a bill.

I thank you in advance for the great round of applause I'm about to get.

The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.

Once I began doing stand-up, I didn't get a kick out of the applause or being the centre of attention - but I did get a kick out of the jigsaw puzzle aspect of it, searching for the right bit, adding another few pieces each night until the bigger picture appears. That's the appeal: the challenge of it.

The applause was so loud and insistent that I had to respond with several encores. I was numb with happiness, when it was over, I knew that this alone must be my life and my world.

The most remarkable moment is when you go out on the stage and you hear the applause of the audience!

The lights go down, you hear the applause and you're up there, and then everything else is forgotten.

For anyone who works in front of an audience there is no thrill quite like that of feeling and hearing the evidence of the audience members' enjoyment. Laughter and applause really are powerful.

When I got through, Duke Ellington stood up and started the applause.

There is nothing that compares to an unexpected round of applause.

I still sing because I love the sound of applause, because it's who I am, and because I still can.

Occasionally if you do something extraordinary, the crew responds with spontaneous applause, but that's very rare.

We all know that much of what we hear in life is not really so. Canned laughter and 'sweetened' applause have been TV staples for decades, and all the slamming doors, breaking glass and squealing tires you hear in movies are sound effects.

Success listens only to applause. To all else it is deaf

Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes,' he said, his voice rising as applause and cheers mounted. 'Shake it off. Stop complainin'. Stop grumblin'. Stop cryin'. We are going to press on. We have work to do.

If you walk into a room and one hundred people say, 'You are a lovely, beautiful person', who isn't going to be affected by that? But you have to tell yourself not to value that. You have to tell yourself - or at least I do - to not become accustomed to hearing applause in any way, because I think that's dangerous.

I don't really feel that I deserve all my applause.

The hoopla, the applause, the praises have never excited me.

Years ago, I was performing, and people kept calling out for 'Puppy Love' and I just didn't want to. Then I thought I'd have some fun, so we did this insane heavy metal version of it. The applause was polite.

A great man does not seek applause or place; he seeks for truth; he seeks the road to happiness, and what he ascertains, he gives to others.

Nobody kicks on being interrupted if it's by applause.

They who gain applause and power by pandering to the mistakes, the prejudices and passions of the multitude are the enemies of liberty.

My dad was a theater actor, so I would follow him backstage. And my mom was a casting director. The moment I heard the applause and realized it would get me out of school, I was hooked.

I hate it when people retire then come back all the time. I don't know if they need more applause or what they need. But I've announced it and it's done.

Some of these decisions might not attract applause but certainly people have to understand that in the end, we shall all benefit,

I will not say ""Springfield"" just to get applause

I think it was in bad taste. There's a sacredness to the event that should be observed, but it seems like an awful dumb thing for the bishop to do to ask for applause for someone who's just been accused of a heinous crime.

The applause belongs to the teams. They are the ones who provided the fans an experience on such an exceptional level that enabled the League overall to reach this previously unattained plateau.

When I was 3, I recited a poem at a festival in Passaic, New Jersey. The applause was tremendous, and it hit me that I could affect people positively by performing.

Appreciation, applause, approval, respect - we all love it!

Applause is a receipt, not a note of demand.

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

The applause of all but very good men is no more than the precise measure of their possible hostility.

Old men need applause too.

That's the greatest applause that any person will ever receive in their life when it comes from their peers

Silence,--the applause of real and durable impressions.

The applause of silence. is the only kind that counts.

We would like to see thunderous applause for the governor's visionary initiative to ensure accountability for our most vulnerable citizens before, during and after a natural disaster.

It was all cheese and applause.

It is harder to avoid censure than to gain applause.

We're going to hope for the best and hope that there's a lot of applause and cheering because he likes that. And we'll see what happens.

These efforts deserve applause and support. They have required much effort and commitment and represent a desirable 'New Auburn'.

The State of the Union is less written than it is designed, structured and organized around applause prompts and camera cues.

There will be some early applause from Wall Street, but it will be subdued because there is a long road ahead. It does not signal the end of terrorist attacks both around the world and in the United States.

Th' applause of listening 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.

They (the students) now have to deal with knowing where the camera angles are going to be on them and understanding that there isn't going to be as much applause and as much reaction.

Flip deserves it. You give your heart and soul to an organization for 10 years, and you deserve applause and a thank you. No matter how it ended, it was a good ride.

There's nothing nicer than getting a round of applause for turning up for work. It's amazing! You start work, and people clap. Do you know what I mean? And then they stand up and clap at the end.

I'm not a Sundance guy either. I've never had applause lasting over two minutes in my life but we had a 17-minute standing ovation.

I once heard profit is the applause you get for taking care of customers and your people,

I'm from Detroit, but I haven't had the great career that he has. He deserves all of the applause and honors that he's been getting. He's always been a hero of mine. He's earned this. What did he call it other day? A dream? I know it is, and that's why everybody's happy for him.

If you achieve success, you will get applause, and if you get applause, you will hear it. My advice to you concerning applause is this; enjoy it but never quite believe it.

If you are lucky enough to be a success, by all means enjoy the applause and adulation of the public. But never, never believe it.

I want to give applause to Hamburg and the German people for being so wonderful to me during my visit. I will never forget my time here.

A round of applause went up for the rover drivers.

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.

I'll pass that applause on to my mother.

It's interesting how little applause there was. It was a subtle indication of the contentious relationship the governor has had with the Legislature.

IN every country today, men have become power-mad and they resort, without any compunction, to self praise and dry declamation. They develop hatred against others, foster envy and feed their fatal egos. They plunge the Society to which they belong into fear, anxiety and disorder. They do not know, that if elevating ideals are adhered to and practiced, they could gain eternal fame; instead they are content with cheap applause and short-lived publicity.

The Broadway audiences are very vocal and seem very engaged. For certain shows, especially with a show like 'The Heiress,' the audience's reactions sound like 'The Jerry Springer Show' sometimes. That seems to be a very New York thing. Oh, there's also the entrance round of applause here, which we don't get too much in London.

The first time I sang in church, when I was ten, the applause was so overwhelming that I started to weep. My mum had to rescue me from the stage.

I always get more applause than votes.

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

Bacon's the best. Even the frying of bacon sounds like applause.

When you hear bacon cooking....that sizzling sound isn't the fat cooking....that's applause.

One gains universal applause who mingles the useful with the agreeable, at once delighting and instructing the reader.

Chandresh relishes reactions. Genuine reactions, not mere polite applause. He often values the reactions over the show itself. A show without an audience is nothing, after all. In the response of the audience, that is where the power of performance lives.

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?

anybody's applause is better than nobody's.

A minute of applause will sum up Jimmy's vibrancy more than a minute's silence. We would like to thank Peter Donald at the Scottish Football League and the match officials who have been first class. We appreciate their understanding and they have been extremely helpful.

We should welcome applause whenever it comes.

So this is how liberty dies. With thunderous applause.

When you can be your own best audience and when your applause is the best applause you know of, youre in good shape.

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

Applause is the beginning of abuse

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

Nothing but disaster follows from applause.

So instead of acknowledging applause, I stand there unmoving while they take part in the boldest form of dissent they can manage. Silence. Which says we do not agree. We do not condone. All of this is wrong.

Just about the only interruption we don't object to is applause.

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

Neither human applause nor human censure is to be taken as the best of truth; but either should set us upon testing ourselves.

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

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

Flattery of the verbal kind is gross. In short, applause is of too coarse a nature to be swallowed in the gross, though the extract or tincture be ever so agreeable.

We are full of rhythms . . . our pulse, our gestures, our digestive tracts, the lunar and seasonal cycles.

Those who play for applause....Tha t’s all they get.

He who seeks for applause only from without has all his happiness in another's keeping

Evil report carries further than any applause.

applause, n. The echo of a platitude.

When I, sitting, heard the astronomer, where he lectured with such applause in the lecture room, how soon, unaccountable, I became tired and sick; Till rising and gliding out, I wandered off by myself, in the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time, looked up in perfect silence at the stars.

O, that our fathers would applause our loves, To seal our happiness with hteir consents!

In the most general applause discordant voices will always be heard

You must be prepared to work always without applause.

There are some whom the applause of the multitude has deluded into the belief that they are really statesmen.

Applause abates diligence.