Quotes About Reception

Blown about by every wind of criticism.

I actually think I have an audience member's sensibility about going to the movies.

Oh God, I'm so excited. You see, I watched the Oscars every year at home on an Irish channel and the reception was fuzzy because we were in the country. Every now and then, it would be: 'The winner for best actor is…' and then the screen would go all grey. It's kind of surreal that I'm actually going to be there this year.

As far as I know, if you take your time, write a good script and make a good film, then give the audience time, they will accept it.

We're receiving information from all the planes of our consciousness all the time, but we don't acknowledge their existence; we treat the information as static, as noise.

My favorite time to dance is at, like, wedding receptions, when it's all ages and everyone seems to be having fun.

Almost every time I make a building, some people will condemn it straight to Hell.

I don't believe that you can judge the worth of a movie in the atmosphere in which it comes out the first time. There's just so many reasons why some pictures don't catch on.

I learned that lesson a long time ago. When you write popular fiction, you're going to get bashed by critics.

Y'know, you can't please all the people all the time... and last night, all those people were at my show.

The passages seemed catacombs of a hell assigned to the subdued regret of those who had lacked in life the income to which they felt themselves entitled; this suspicion that the two houses were an abode of the dead being increased by the fact that no one was ever to be seen about, even at the reception desk.

Of all reviews, the crushing review is the most popular, as being the most readable.

In other words, we are not writing a treatise on legislation or on the law of contracts or, for that matter, on the Constitution. Our subject is solely interpretation: how a legal message is to be received by those who must apply its directives.

Absence of noise is not a natural condition; all human senses require some input. If they are deprived of it, the mind manufactures its own substitutes.

Only a fool rushes to inform of bad news.

C'est en désirant la vérité à vide et sans tenter d'en deviner d'avance le contenu qu'on reçoit la lumière. C'est là tout le mécanisme de l'attention.

Spiritual law says that you receive what you give times 10, so choose to put out bright, loving energy to the world. Despite appearances to the contrary, it will return. The more openhearted you are, the quicker the telepathic reception will be.

I well believe it, to unwilling ears; None love the messenger who brings bad news

Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost what it feels about dogs.

One way to describe this problem is to say that when these people "receive Christ," they do not receive him as supremely valuable.

Prayer is the opening of the heart to God as to a friend. Not that it is necessary in order to make known to God what we are, but in order to enable us to receive Him.

Applause, mingled with boos and hisses, is about all that the average voter is able or willing to contribute to public life.

And as the Divine that goes forth from the Lord is the good of love and the truth of faith, the angels are angels and are heaven in the measure in which they receive good and truth from the Lord.

Ever, while you live, choose the popular side in an election; that is, if you have no particular political prejudices of your own; for there is no comparison between a reception of cheers, applause, and good-will, and one of cabbage-stalks, groans, and bad eggs. Besides, there is something exhilarating in the real, genuine affection (while it lasts) of a mob for their favourite of a day.