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Quotes About Applause

I think that's the difference between being loved and making people clap, though. Love can't be earned, it can only be given. And it can only be exchanged by people who are completely true with each other.
~ Donald Miller
Applause is a quick fix. And love is an acquired taste. Sincerely, Donald Miller
~ Donald Miller
Think of what it was they were applauding," he said at last. "My message today was a message of death for our young men. How strange it seems to applaud that.
~ John Dos Passos
A man whose identity flows out of deep validation doesn't wilt under criticism. He enjoys applause when it comes but frankly isn't desperate for it. He can walk away from work at five o'clock; he doesn't measure his success by how much money he makes. We grow into this man, to be sure; I'm not setting a new standard of perfection. But what I am describing
~ John Eldredge
aplausos. La coordinación siempre era el mayor
~ John Grisham
The people who applaud the loudest, Lucrezia notes, are the ones who talked through the performance.
~ Maggie O'Farrell
No act is so private it does not seek applause.
~ John Updike
The orchestra concludes to a merry burst of applause and the orchestra slides into a waltz—a much-needed chance for the dancers to catch their breath, perhaps even an opportunity for the whispering of urgent secrets and tender promises...
~ Unknown
Mozart often wrote to his family that certain variations or sections of pieces were so successful that they had to be encored immediately, even without waiting for the entire piece to end.
~ Emanuel Ax
There is nothing an economist should fear so much as applause.
~ Herbert Marshall
I had no fear 'cause it seemed everyone in the audience always applauded whatever I did. Course, maybe it was because I always seemed to know everyone in the audience.
~ Sissy Spacek
At times in my life the only place I have been happy is when I am on stage.
~ Bob Dylan
My play was a complete success. The audience was a failure.
~ Ashleigh Brilliant
We can't all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
~ Will Rogers
Congratulations to each and every one of you for the concert last night in New York and vice versa.
~ Eugene Ormandy
Did you play? It sounded very good.
~ Eugene Ormandy
Soul of the Age! The applause! delight! the wonder of our stage! My Shakespeare, rise; I will not lodge thee by Chaucer, or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie A little further, to make thee a room; Thou art a monument without a tomb.
~ Ben Jonson
If I have played my part well, then give me applause.
~ Mary Beard
Entre sus últimas palabras dirigidas a sus amigos reunidos, antes de un largo beso a Livia, deslizó una cita taimada de una comedia griega: «Si he representado bien mi papel, aplaudid».
~ Mary Beard
You could eat in the finest restaurants, you could partake in every sensual pleasure, you could sing on stage in São Paulo to twenty thousand people, you could soak up whole thunderstorms of applause, you could travel to the ends of the Earth, you could be followed by millions on the internet, you could win Olympic medals, but this was all meaningless without love.
~ Matt Haig
You could eat in the finest restaurants, you could partake in every sensual pleasure, you could sing on stage in Sao Paulo to twenty thousand people, you could soak up whole thunderstorms of applause, you could travel to the ends of the Earth, you could be followed by millions on the internet, you could win Olympic medals, but this was all meaningless without love.
~ Matt Haig
It is last stage of all When we are frozen up within, and quite The phantom of ourselves, To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man.
~ Matthew Arnold
The everything of womanhood carries no reward at all. And yet, everything still has to get done. So you keep working and you stop waiting, but the hope is still there, tucked in a corner. Sometimes it's the only thing that keeps you going—the hope that that someone—that one person—will applaud.
~ Unknown
Each spring we go to big banquets, press and politicians all done up in formal dress, where everyone applauds the awarding of prizes to journalists who have exposed the crumminess of the political leaders sitting at the head table, joining in the ovation and fun. Lots of jokes are made. Lots of hands are shaken. It is a community affair.
~ Meg Greenfield