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Quotes About Reception

Success is the result achieved when nobody answers.
~ Gertrude Stein
and understood that he had been awaited with impatience, to be greeted with enthusiasm.
~ Alexandre Dumas
How we come into this world, how we are ushered in, met, and hopefully embraced upon arrival, impacts the whole of our time on earth.
~ Alice Walker
Death is a dignitary who when he comes announced is to be received with formal manifestations of respect, even by those most familiar with him.
~ Ambrose Bierce
You must conceive it in your heart and mind before you can receive it.
~ Joel Osteen
Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If you go back to the first single-cell form of life, it clearly possessed the capacity to receive, to utilize, to store, to transform, and to transmit information.
~ Dee Hock
There are certain ways of being that people don't find acceptable or very pleasant in regular life, but you go out on stage and do pretty much the same thing and they find it spellbinding.
~ Michael Shannon
I don't think there is any feeling I like more than the one that someone is glad to see me. —Connor Kane
~ E.L. Konigsburg
The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists.
~ E.M. Forster
The night received her, as it had received Miss Bartlett thirty years before.
~ E.M. Forster
Our attitude towards others determines their attitude towards us.
~ Earl Nightingale
He continued yelling and screaming, calling us scumbags and maggots. He even said, "You are mere pimples on the face of humanity." I thought he was supposed to be glad to see us. What was the issue?
~ Ed Kugler
A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.
~ Edmond de Goncourt
Rivas estuvo bien, justo es decirlo. Nos hizo sentar, nos sirvió té, nos explicó sin prisa, y hasta nos hizo un dibujito en un recetario.
~ Eduardo Sacheri
Can you hear me now? Good.
~ Anonymous
Given to hospitality.
~ Anonymous
When we focus our thoughts upon some person in the spirit world, whether they be in the form of a definite message, or whether they are solely of an affectionate nature, those thoughts will reach their destination without fail, and they will be taken up by the percipient.
~ Anthony Borgia
The working press -- a strange expression that; it calls up a picture of a horde of other pressmen lolling about Hollywood on sumptuous divans, smother by bevies of attendant odalisques, and thinking scornfully of their colleagues of the WORKING press -- the working press took kindly to the reception for the Baker Street Irregulars.
~ Anthony Boucher
Radio: it ties a million ears to a single mouth.
~ Anthony Doerr
I am hearing you. On radio. Is why I come.
~ Anthony Doerr
The strange thing was that he was more relaxed, now, after being told the news. It was as if he had always been expecting it and was merely grateful that, at last, it had been delivered.
~ Anthony Horowitz
I work for the public, for the people who are paying to go to the cinema, rather than for the critics.
~ Kevin Costner
To be honest, before the American publication of 'The Three-Body Problem', I prepared myself for the possibility of uniformly negative reviews.
~ Liu Cixin