Applause

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.

- Thomas Gray Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

They named it Ovation from the Latin ovis A Sheep.

- Plutarch Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I have been trying to find out exactly when listeners and performers decided that applause between movements would not be allowed, but nobody seems to have been willing to admit that they were the culprit.

- Emanuel Ax Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I'd get more applause than some because I was just seventeen. If they didn't clap at the end of my act I would limp off stage and boy would they feel guilty. They would all burst into tremendous applause as they saw this poor cripple kid walking off.

- Jim Dale Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I received the most fantastic welcome to the Broadway Theatre community. I walked on stage to tremendous applause and a long standing ovation, wondering when I was ever going to be able to say my first line

- Elaine Paige Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Do what thy manhood bids thee do from none but self expect applause Henoblest lives and noblest dies, who makes and keeps his selfmadelaw.

- Richard Burton Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Sometimes I wish that applause would come just a bit later, when it is so beautifully hushed that I feel like holding my breath in the silence of the end.

- Emanuel Ax Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.

- Golda Meir Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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.

- Lamon Brewster Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Applause should be an emotional response to the music, rather than a regulated social duty.

- Emanuel Ax Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

What good are fans You can't eat applause for breakfast. You can't sleep with it.

- Bob Dylan Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

There's an old joke that strippers work for money and burlesque dancers work for applause. For many of them, it's not the way they make a living - they just do it because they like to do it.

- Eric Hall Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

But the difference between a good film and real life is that in real life, there's the next day, the next year, the next lifetime to contemplate the ruinous consequences of easy applause.

- Hugh Grant Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

For we can now understand why it was that a man true to his conscience, in circumstances of such controversy, leave government in a way that not only manifested an absence of rancor but won applause, not just from those who agreed with him but those who disagreed with him.

- Gordon Brown Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

- George Eliot Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The only principles of public conduct that are worthy of a gentleman or a man are to sacrifice estate, ease, health, and applause, and even life, to the sacred calls of his country.

- James Otis Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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

- Brenda Lee Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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. I love it. That's my world. I love it. I enjoy it. I live for it.

- Erykah Badu Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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

- Kin Hubbard Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

One hand cannot applaud.

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

- Bo Diddley Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

We should welcome applause whenever it comes.

- Emanuel Ax Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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

- Edmund Burke Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

It's great to be back out there. When you hear the applause, people are out there wanting to see you.

- Martina Hingis Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people.

- Judy Garland Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes