Quotes About Reception

To be fit to receive his word implies being of his kind. No matter how his image may have been defaced in me: the thing defaced is his image, remains his defaced image—an image yet that can hear his word.

He did not accept the good news of God; he strained it to his heart, and was jubilant over it.

VISITORS FROM THE HALL.

Dickens seems to have succeeded in attacking everybody and antagonizing nobody.

Even when there was no doubt about the invitation he always half expected that there would be some hitch or other. He was never quite certain of his welcome.

He had expected to have been received, if not with gratification, at least with pleasure: it had been a piece of condescension on the part of the head of the family to have visited its reprobate, but the reprobate was apparently unaware of this.

I worked very hard on me and David's record and I'm extremely proud of the record, as most people are who were involved with it. And, it's been wonderfully received by people who like our kind of music, they think it's something special, and so do I.

I think I am the type of artist that, time and time again, either people love or don't know about.

Acting in film, you know, I hear all the time, people say 'You did so much better than I thought you would.' So there's an added element of surprise in film, different than in music.

Everyone hated the title 'The Full Monty' until they saw the film did really well and then loved the title.

I have to be honest: I don't get many, if any - I don't know that I've ever received a phone call in my office from somebody that says they've been discriminated against based on their sexual orientation.

To be honest, the first thing that hits you when you step off the plane in L.A. is just how eager people are to help you out here - or, at least, that's what I've found.

In fact, people have been very complimentary about my act and very tolerant of my singing ability.

Her hospitality was something exquisite; she had the gift which so many women lack, of being able to make themselves and their houses belong entirely to a guest's pleasure,--that charming surrender for the moment of themselves and whatever belongs to them, so that they make a part of one's own life that can never be forgotten.

Lately I did a film called All I Want for Christmas and it was well received. This gave me a new point of view and a new respect for my work as an actress.

sometimes we love what we wrote, critics hate it. Sometimes we hate what we wrote, critics love it.

When the audience is awful you can still have a great night and people will walk out thinking they had a great time even though there was loads of loudmouths and the sound was terrible.

You really only understand whether a song's good or not when you properly play it out in public for the first time.

I think any time you take on touchy subjects, you're going to offend some people, or you're going to please others.

Every time you start a project, you're hopeful that the critics receive it warmly.

Nothing perhaps has so retarded the reception of the higher conclusions of Geology among men in general, as ... [the] instinctive parsimony of the human mind in matters where time is concerned.

My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems.

You cannot please all of the people all of the time, and that is truer in the arts than anywhere else.

That didn't really matter, how you judge how successful you are is basically when you turn up to do a gig and people come and have a good time.