Applause Quotes - Page 2
History of the Peloponnesian War bk. 1, ch. 1
C'mon, we're actors. We love the attention. We love the applause. We sure don't like to be rejected.
Plato (1977). “The Portable Plato”, p.256, Penguin
Norman Thomas (1970). “What are the Answers?: Norman Thomas Speaks to Youth”
Tom Peters (2010). “The Pursuit of Wow!: Every Person's Guide to Topsy-Turvy Times”, p.45, Vintage
Just about the only interruption we don't object to is applause.
Sydney J. Harris (1986). “Clearing the ground”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Bacon's the best, even the frying of bacon sounds like an applause.
"Jim Gaffigan: King Baby", 2009.
Charles de Lint (2007). “Widdershins”, p.297, Macmillan
'The Cynic's Word Book' (1906) p. 19
Alphonse de Lamartine, James B. Runnion (1911). “Graziella: a story of Italian love. Translated ... by James B. Runnion. Sixteen thousand”
We must do our work for its own sake, not for fortune or attention or applause.
Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.161, Black Irish Entertainment LLC
Samuel Johnson (1797). “The Beauties of Samuel Johnson, Etc. (A New Edition, Being the Ninth.).”, p.29
There is no applause that so flatters a man as that which he wrings from unwilling throats.
Ouida (1896). “Pipistrello: And Other Stories”
We cannot at once catch the applauses of the vulgar and expect the approbation of the wise.
Walter Savage Landor, Charles George Crump (1909). “Imaginary Conversations: Classical dialogues (Roman) Dialogues of sovereigns and statesmen”