Applause Quotes - Page 2

• I have been trying to find out exactly when listeners and performers decided that applause between movements would not be allowed, but nobody seems to have been willing to admit that they were the culprit.

  Emanuel Ax

  Trying, Movement, Culprit

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• People do still cheer for the President. And some of the military audiences are more likely to cheer than others. I have seen him speak lately in front of groups like Freedom House, where the applause was a long time coming.

  Gwen Ifill

  Cheer, Military, Long

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• A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself; he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success.

  Alec Waugh

  Men, Support, Doubt

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• Old men need applause too.

  Don Everly

  Men, Needs, Old Man

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• From day one, I got addicted to being on stage and getting the applause and laughter.

  Zac Efron

  Happiness, Laughter, Joy

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• As they marched, the crowds lining the route broke into applause, a sweet and deeply felt spontaneous pattering that was a sort of communal embrace. Welcome home.

  Lance Morrow

  Sweet, Home, Crowds

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• There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone else.

  George Madison Adams

  Inspirational, Encouragement, Spots

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• Nothing is so foolish, they say, as for a man to stand for office and woo the crowd to win its vote, buy its support with presents, court the applause of all those fools and feel self-satisfied when they cry their approval, and then in his hour of triumph to be carried round like an effigy for the public to stare at, and end up cast in bronze to stand in the market place.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Winning, Men, Self

  Desiderius Erasmus (1986). “Literary and Educational Writings: Panegyricus and Philippum Austriaeducem. Moriae encomium. Dialogus Julius exclusus e coelis. Institutio principis christiani. Querela pacis”

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• The lights go down, you hear the applause and you're up there, and then everything else is forgotten.

  Warren Cuccurullo

  Light, Forgotten

  FaceBook post by Warren Cuccurullo from Jun 19, 2014

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• O, popular applause! what heart of man is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms?

  William Cowper

  Sweet, Heart, Men

  William Cowper, James Thomson (1832). “The Works of Cowper and Thompson: Including Many Letters and Poems Never Before Published in this Country. With a New and Interesting Memoir of the Life of Thomson”, p.67

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• If thou couldst, doctor, cast The water of my land, find her disease, And purge it to a sound and pristine health, I would applaud thee to the very echo, That should applaud you again.

  William Shakespeare

  Echoes, Doctors, Land

  William Shakespeare, Alexander Chalmers (1859). “The Works of William Shakespeare, Complete: Accurately Printed from the Text of the Corrected Copy Left by the Late George Steevens”, p.280

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• A vain man can never be utterly ruthless: he wants to win applause and therefore he accommodates himself to others

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Winning, Men, Want

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• To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Appreciation, Mean, Power

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook K 42, 1799.

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• Evil report carries further than any applause.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Evil, Carrie, Reports

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• The applause is a celebration not only of the actors but also of the audience. It constitutes a shared moment of delight.

  John Charles Polanyi

  Actors, Delight, Celebration

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• All of us love applause, and so we should - it means that the listener likes us!

  Emanuel Ax

  Mean, Likes, Should

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• So this is how liberty dies. With thunderous applause.

  George Lucas

  Liberty, Sith, Always With You

  Revenge of the Sith (motion picture) (2005)

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• We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation.

  Edmund Burke

  Judging, Liberty, Civil Rights

  Edmund Burke (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)”, p.3831, Delphi Classics

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• I received the most fantastic welcome to the Broadway Theatre community. I walked on stage to tremendous applause and a long standing ovation, wondering when I was ever going to be able to say my first line!

  Elaine Paige

  Broadway Theatre, Long, Community

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• We should welcome applause whenever it comes.

  Emanuel Ax

  Welcome, Should

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• And I tell my audience, you know, give the real stars a round of applause. Because without them I'm nobody. So I learned so much from people like that.

  Little Milton

  Stars, Real, People

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• I love to make people laugh and love to make people smile. The first time I performed and heard the applause, that was the sound that I wanted to hear for the rest of my life.

  James Monroe Iglehart

  People, Laughing, And Love

  Source: www.blackfilm.com

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• We protest against unjust criticism but we accept unarmed applause.

  Jose Narosky

  Unjust Criticism, Accepting, Protest

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• Neither human applause nor human censure is to be taken as the best of truth; but either should set us upon testing ourselves.

  Richard Whately

  Truth, Taken, Should

  Richard Whately (1856). “Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley”, p.87

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• What good are fans? You can't eat applause for breakfast. You can't sleep with it.

  Bob Dylan

  Sleep, Fans, Breakfast

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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