Quotes About Reception

The more Americans find out about President Barack Obama's health care law, the less they like it. A majority of Americans want out.

Beyond hoping that someone will like one of my songs, I don't think about how a song will be received. I just hope that, when somebody hears one of my songs, they'll want to hear it again.

There's precious little comes of telling people what they don't want to hear.

As soon as you start preaching, nobody wants to hear you because then you're a jerk.

I wonder if that's hurt me at the box office. Maybe audiences these days want to know exactly what to expect when they go into a movie, and my movies are hard to explain in just one way.

Daisy greeted her pleasantly, but the girl's Bambi eyes

Stories are thick with meanings. You can fall in love with a story for what you think it says, but you can't know for certain where it will lead your listeners. If you're telling a tale to teach children to be generous, they may fix instead on the part where your hero hides in an olive jar, then spend the whole next day fighting about who gets to try it first. People take what they need from the stories they hear. The tale is often wiser than the teller.

Now I smile. "How's everything with you?" I call down cheerfully. This takes them aback, but I know the crowd will love it.

think that; I know I should be grateful for the way we have been welcomed. Sick, wounded, starving, and empty-handed. Still, I can never get around the fact that District 13 was

In each city there are different favorites. Whatever we do, we'll come off the stage and somebody will ask how come we didn't do 'Pearl Necklace.' At the next town, it's something else we didn't do that they wanted to hear.

I believe whenever you're trying something new, it's always going to get some kind of bad reception.

I don't much like 'Wonderwall,' but the effect that song has on people, I can't deny it.

I don't read good reviews. I like to know what percentages are going on. When Sony sends out something saying that people are liking the movie, I like to know that, but I don't actually sit and read the good stuff.

There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions.

I think my first hit was probably '24 is a Rubberband Man,' which was my second album. My first project, it was very well received in the Southeast region, all throughout the South and parts of the Midwest. It was very well received, but I didn't get national exposure on my second album.

People Will Hear What The Wish To Hear, So Why Can't Say and Do What You Wish In Life.

Significant signals have a way to reach you.

in spite of how hyped they were at the time of publication.

A stale article, if you did it in a good, warm, sunny smile will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.

There is always a mix of apprehension and excitement before you try songs out on a new audience.

If nobody comes to your shows, then it's modern dance. If everybody comes to your shows and no one likes it, is that ballet? I don't know.

Before my book, 'California,' came out, I had modest hopes for it. Or, let's put it this way - I had the same hopes that every literary fiction writer in America has: I wanted the novel to be well-received, critically. As for sales? I didn't want it to disappoint, but I didn't expect it to be a best-seller, either.

As films are a mass medium, if more people love your work, it is better.

We live for our concerts. We like a live appearance more than anything else about this business and it bothers us when we put so much into it and the critics bomb us.