Ovations Quotes

#1. Standing ovations have become far too commonplace. What we need are ovations where the audience members all punch and kick one another.

George Carlin

#2. Our culture will stand in roaring ovations for the illusionists, escape artists, and magicians. Deception is everything opposite the truth.

Billy Graham

#3. I get standing ovations at meetings when I say Britain should be involved in human spaceflight. Unfortunately, that goal has been blocked by a handful of people in high office.

Helen Sharman

#4. We have tendency to define ourselves in opposition to stuff. But try to also express your passion for things you love. Be demonstrative and generous in your praise of those you admire. Send thank-you cards and give standing ovations. Be pro-stuff, not just anti-stuff.

Tim Minchin

#5. If you're dreaming of being a great soloist, walking on stage, receiving ovations night after night, having money thrown at you, girls chasing after you and your beautiful picture - that's wonderful. But what exactly does that have to do with the practice of music ?

Wu Han

#6. It is not always a matter of wild ovations and legendary performances. Sometimes you are just happy to get through an opera without trouble.

Luciano Pavarotti

#7. My son now is 22 months old, he's been playing since he was 12 months old and he gets standing ovations on the drums. He's been with us since he was 10 weeks old, he's been on the drums. He's got blisters on his fingers before he can even talk.

Dick Dale

#8. Any actress will tell you, when you've been given a starring role in the initial run of a show, you want to be getting the standing ovations every night, not just on review night.

Martine McCutcheon

#9. I could have lived off all the male careers in my family. Everybody was always getting ovations, but I was in the wings.

Talia Shire

#10. However anxious one is to reach one's goal, one can excuse delays on the route when these are caused by ovations.

Alexandre Dumas

#11. Live your life, sing your song. Not full of expectations. Not for the ovations. But for the joy of it.

Rasheed Ogunlaru

#12. Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music as an excuse for its ovations.

Alfred Jarry

#13. (You wouldn't be reading this book if I hadn't convinced my publisher that I was enough of a pseudo-extrovert to promote it.)

Susan Cain

#14. It's actually easier to play a leading role than it is to play a supporting role.

Carey Mulligan

#15. That's the problem with the world," he said. "You save it today, and tomorrow it's gone and gotten itself into trouble all over again. It's like a Kardashian.

Lou Berney

#16. You can be tops in Australia and be unheard of everywhere else.

Barry Gibb

#17. So long as tyranny exists, in whatever form, man's deepest aspiration must resist it as inevitably as man must breathe.

Emma Goldman

#18. We so horridly shake our disposition with thoughts beyond the reaches of our soul>

William Shakespeare

#19. Christians - at least Christians in a liberal democracy - have accepted, after Thomas Hobbes, that they must obey the secular rule of law; that there must be a separation of church and state.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#20. I collect flickering stars
in old pickling jars,
poking holes in the lids
so they can breathe.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#21. Sometimes we look for those thunderous things to happen in our life for our lives to change or go in the other direction. We seek the miracle. We seek the parting of the seas, the moving of the mountains. But no, it's a quiet thing. At least for me it was.

Ben Vereen