Quotes About Reception

My songs grow on people - like warts.

Choose your audience wisely, for its not your performance that varies but their response is what matters!

There is never a bad joke, it's adressing to a wrong audience that makes it look bad!

I get butterflies every time a record comes out. I'm like, 'I hope people like it. I hope people buy it.'

I don't think you can beat your audience over the head with hard-hitting cartoons day after day after day.

Your receivers have to catch it, not drop it.

When people watch good films they want other films to be of that calibre as well particularly when you cater to the same core audience.

If people pay money to see you, they have to cheer. They can't boo, or else they're chumping themselves.

One of the things that I thought really worked was that you have 'Smallville' on television and 'Superman Returns' come out in the theater, and it was fine. Nobody freaked out; nobody thought they were competing.

I think prepare, if you're going to voice your opinion be aware that some people will be supportive and some people won't.

I suppose because my work was so popular people didn't really look at it.

Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me.

Yes, I'm always - I'm always surprised when you make a film and you live with it a while and you put it out, you never dream that anybody is ever going to want to really see it.

I've been surprised that 'Elizabeth is Missing' has been so well received as a crime book. I love mystery stories, and that is what I decided to write.

It's always good to have no expectations when you see a film. Then you can be pleasantly disappointed or surprised.

So, it didn't do well. But now when I talk to kids who are first seeing it, they're surprised to hear the movie failed at the box office. Sometimes that's what happens.

I'm a big fan of 'Glee.' I think it's really smart. And I think it's well-timed. But you can't not be surprised at the reception this show's received. It's really something else.

I think all my films can be enjoyed. In fact, they've often surprised me with how they're received.

Oddly, for a book to do well merely because people like it is surprisingly rare.

They may be perceived by the sense organs of other individuals, and they may so imprint themselves on the brains of the receiving individuals that a copy (not necessarily exact) of the original meme is graven in the receiving brain.

The parrot/writer feebly accepts language as something received, imitative and inert

The message was sealed with a blob of wax but no press of a signet. She slid a finger beneath to crack the seal, and read: I apologize if I've ever behaved like an ass. It was the most romantic message she'd ever received. All other messages would strive to live up to it for the rest of her days. She was convinced of that in the moment.

And I was the Lion you do not remember who pushed the boat in which you lay, a child near death, so that it came to shore where a man sat, wakeful at midnight, to receive you.

All the love and joy that a man has ever received in perception is laid up in him as the sunshine of a hundred years is laid up in the bole of the oak.