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Quotes About Reception

Is it raining out?" the reception girl asked brightly as I filled in the registration card between sneezes and pauses to wipe water from my face with the back of my arm. "No, my ship sank and I had to swim the last seven miles." "Oh, yes?" she went on
~ Bill Bryson
The eyes and faces all turned themselves towards me, and guiding myself by them, as by a magical thread, I stepped into the room.
~ Sylvia Plath
We must remember that what a writer does to people is not necessarily what he intends to do. It may be only what people are capable of having done to them.
~ T.S. Eliot
You've got to introduce people to things in a way they're going to enjoy.
~ Ella Woodward
Any New York group can come to L.A. and sell out every show, but an L.A. group who goes to New York might not do the same because the audience hasn't been introduced to the group.
~ Ice T
I think 'Invisible' is a great song, but I don't know how accessible it is.
~ Bono
I'm always shocked when I get an invitation. People are always shocked when they see me at a party.
~ Joan Rivers
Drake come out there and he play his music and everybody just go crazy. Michael Jackson come out there and breathe.
~ Boosie
The Japanese seem to be a loyal audience.
~ Herb Alpert
I wanted to like 'Up in the Air' - I like Jason Reitman - but Vera Farmiga left me cold.
~ Andy Kindler
When I'm up on stage and do a joke, half the people interpret it one way and half of them interpret it the way I want them to.
~ Maria Bamford
He handed me one of the leaflets. It was a picture of our old house. Underneath, it said it was a character property with surviving period details, inc fire surround, in a settled residential area. Two bedrooms, two reception, kitchen and separate utility room. And that was it. Nothing about us or what happened there. You wouldn't know it was our house except for the address.
~ Frank Cottrell Boyce
Communication requires two things, expression and reception.
~ Frank DeMarco
Sabes, mi cielo, que llueves en mí y yo, como la tierra, te recibo.
~ Frida Kahlo
On a beau accuser l'Occident de répandre ses erreurs dans le monde entier, encore faut-il quelqu'un qui les accepte.
~ Frithjof Schuon
But I am now aware that these words will reach an audience
~ Brandon Mull
not to your hospitality, but to your hospitalality;
~ Henry David Thoreau
This is rather different from the receptions I used to get fifty years ago. They threw things at me then but they were not roses.
~ Susan B. Anthony
I think probably one of the coolest things was when I went to play basketball at Rucker Park in Harlem. First of all, who would think that Larry the Cable Guy would go to Harlem to play basketball? And I was received like a rock star. It was amazing! There were people everywhere. There were guys walking by yelling, 'Git 'r done!'
~ Larry the Cable Guy
When it was announced I had won the Tony Award, I was in Bangkok doing a movie with Judi Dench. I remember coming back from the location to the Oriental Hotel and hearing someone yelling across the reception area, 'You've won the Tony!' It was wonderful and strange to be halfway around the world.
~ Roger Rees
I said yes to Smart because I know that connectivity plays a big role in linking K-Drama to Filipinos. I would not have felt this kind of reception from our friends in the Philippines if the fans did not have access to the content we offer.
~ Hyun Bin
Journalists used to be obsessed with working at a New York magazine or newspaper or TV network. Now the entire industry is obsessed with going viral and how words will be received via social media.
~ Jason Whitlock
I came out of a building and this woman stopped me, like, 'You're Miss Universe!' And she was a New Yorker! I'm not used to New Yorkers being fans, because they're so blase about it, you know.
~ Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters
At a young age, I realized that getting letters is exciting.
~ Jesse Itzler