Quotes About Reception

Is there sound, he wondered, without reception? Do you hear the shot that gets you? How big, in fact, was the Big Bang? Do our pathetic earthly squeals fall upon deaf ears? Is silence golden or common stone.

Teachers who offer you the ultimate answers do not possess the ultimate answers, for if they did, they would know that the ultimate answers cannot be given, they can only be received.

They glared at her as if she were a piece of modern art at a county fair. A hostile sneer here, a puzzled laugh there...

Bienvenue. Welcome. Benvenuto. Herzlich Willkommen im Wolkenschloss. Genießen Sie ihren Aufenthalt.

if there's one dude that everyone on the Upper West Side will welcome with open arms, it's the fucking jogger.

If a heart could fail in its pumping, a lung in its breathing, then why not a brain in its thinking, rendering the world forever askew, like a television with bad reception? And couldn't a brain fail as arbitrarily as any one of these other parts, without regard to the blessing and cosseting that, everyone was so eager to remind you, disentitled you from unhappiness?

There's no book that absolutely everyone loves.

He had longed for it—that is what the phrase means; longed for the moment when He would give us the Body that Mary had given to Him and for the moment when each one receives Him in Communion. He waited thirty-three years in time for the Last Supper; two thousand years for me.

I frankly felt like the reception we received on the way in from the airport was very warm and hospitable. And I want to thank the Canadian people who came out to wave -- with all five fingers -- for their hospitality.

The public doesn't want new music; the main thing that it demands of a composer is that he be dead.

If Fortune calls, offer him a seat.

If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of him.

When I did well, I heard it never; When I did ill, I heard it ever.

The audience was swell. They were so polite they covered their mouths when they yawned.

Humility is a virtue, and it is a virtue innate in guests.

Man can only receive what he sees himself receiving.

Come in the evening, come in the morning, Come when expected, come without warning; Thousands of welcomes you'll find here before you, And the oftener you come, the more we'll adore you.

Z knew the fed EX-tinction package had arrived and wasn't ready to take delivery

For me, graffiti and the complexities with which it is either absorbed or expelled from what is going on, is a really good comparison to the way I see my work being similarly expelled or absorbed into different types of discourse.

Certain types of films will never test well. My films never seem to test well.

I've been pretty well treated by the critics, but the critics who didn't like my comedies hated them with an unbridled passion, and then I would see these same people writing very respectfully about ordinary naturalistic plays.

The corners of Cooper's mouth tucked in, which is as close as he gets to a smile. He said, "Do come in.

Every moment of life is like a sacrament in which we can receive God. It is a channel through which God speaks to us, forms us, and directs us.

We never thought it would be something everyone would listen to. We never thought people who listen to Britney Spears would run to listen to it. It was intended for people on the fanatical side of production and hi-fi.