Clappings Quotes

#1. Here my sister, after a fit of clappings and screamings, beat her hands upon her bosom and upon her knees, and threw her cap off, and pulled her hair down - which were the last stages on her road to frenzy. Being by this time a perfect fury and a complete success, she made a dash to the door

Charles Dickens

#2. As the sun does not wait for prayers and incantations tob e induced to rise, but immediately shines and is saluted by all, so do you also not wait for clappings of hands and shouts of praise tob e induced to do good, but be a doer of good voluntarily and you will be beloved as much as the sun.

Epictetus

#3. How can you look at the galaxy and not feel insignificant?

Ridley Scott

#4. There is all the pleasure that one can have in golddigging in finding one's hopes satisfied in the riches of a good hill of potatoes.

Sarah Orne Jewett

#5. I've got all of my enemies here in the Cabinet where I can keep an eye on them.

John Diefenbaker

#6. Twins are usually hailed with delight, because they swell the power of the family, though in some instances they are put to death.

John Hanning Speke

#7. Dignity and pride are not only two different feelings, but, in some ways, opposites.
You can step on your pride to preserve your dignity. You can destroy your dignity because of your pride.

Luigina Sgarro

#8. The very first big photo shoot I ever did was with Bruce Weber. I couldn't believe this guy was taking my picture, so when he told me to get in the bathtub, I just did. It's only now, looking back, that I realise, you don't have to do everything people tell you.

Matt Damon

#9. I love dogs, not chimps. Some chimps are nice, and some are horrid. I don't actually think of them as animals any more than I think of us as animals, although both of us are.

Jane Goodall

#10. Everyone else would have danced around the truth for too long a time. Lirah, was able to slap them in the face with it until it could be avoided no longer.

Melina Marchetta

#11. My inspiration is everything that the human being gets up to.

John Lydon