Quotes About Reception

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The infinity of All ever bringing forth anew, and even as infinite space is around us, so is infinite potentiality, capacity, reception, malleability, matter.

I don't mind adverse criticism. It doesn't matter if I'm misinterpreted because not everyone will understand what I'm trying to say.

There is no reason why any sane person should read Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind. It is one of the worst books ever written by an American, shoddy, meretricious and without any redeeming social value.

30 percent will love it, 30 percent will hate it, and 30 percent won't care.

If someone wrote Beethoven's Fifth Symphony right now it would be laughed at.

Never underestimate the effect you can have on certain sections of the audience, though. You should see some of the letters I get.

It's too easy to underestimate your audience. But it's not rocket science: bad plays don't get people on seats; good plays do.

I think a lot of people questioned if I could catch underneath.

There's a lot of expectation after you do something that seems to have been well received. It's kind of unfair.

I don't expect people who've enjoyed 'Spy Kids' will enjoy 'Repo! the Genetic Opera!'

Stadiums are notoriously bad for cell phone reception. Spending the majority of a game trying to post an Instagram'd picture of the field isn't just pitiful, it's damn near hopeless.

You can play a gig as a band and not know that they hated you; with standup, after every line, you know.

Nobody likes the man who brings bad news.

For no one loves the bearer of bad tidings.

Men will not receive the truth from their enemies, and it is seldom offered to them by their friends.

Such truth, as opposeth no man's profit, nor pleasure, is to all men welcome.

It's always an interesting experience for a politician to be heard in silence, I have to say.

Whatever is received is received according to the nature of the recipient.

Whatever is received into something is received according to the condition of the receiver

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

If 'American Beauty' came out today, it wouldn't make nearly as much money.

You're always nervous about what critics say - about what anybody has to say, really.

The public doesn't want new music.