Top 100 Quotes About Applause
#1. Cooking for people is an enormously significant expression of generosity and soulfulness, and entertaining is a way to be both generous and creative. You're sharing your life with people. Of course, it's also an expression of your own need for approval and applause. Nothing wrong with that.
Ted Allen
#4. The lights go down, you hear the applause and you're up there, and then everything else is forgotten.
Warren Cuccurullo
#5. Someone had tried to warn me of the kind of catastrophe that is likely to occur when you involve yourself too closely in one of those destinies that is ringed around by the transient tinsel of human applause.
Mary Deasy
#6. If you're going to live here, staying civil is as much a duty as sitting the steps or washing dishes. Now, while I bask in the glow of another moral sermon delivered with the precision of a master fencer, hold your applause and let's get back to last night.
Scott Lynch
#7. Applause is the most powerful thing ... people talk about the sound of it, but what I hear is glee.
C. C. H. Pounder
#8. Applause, mingled with boos and hisses, is about all that the average voter is able or willing to contribute to public life.
Elmer Davis
#9. Being booed off stage is just an applause from ghosts!
Sharon Needles
#10. In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people.
Judy Garland
#11. He quickly saw that these people would believe anything that was shouted at them loudly and convincingly enough. He knew what would fetch their applause and bring in their memberships and he intended to repeat it over and over.
George S. Schuyler
#12. My mother used to tell this corny story about how the doctor smacked me on the behind when I was born and I thought it was applause, and I have been looking for it ever since.
Kathy Bates
#13. The requiem has started, and when the last melody plays, the only applause will be sweet, eternal silence.
Julie Kagawa
#14. Proportion thy charity to the strength of thine estate, lest God proportion thine estate to the weakness of thy charity. Let the lips of the poor be the trumpet of thy gift, lest in seeking applause, thou lose thy reward. Nothing is more pleasing to God than an open hand and a closed mouth.
Francis Quarles
#15. All this is a dream to me. Everything, the applause, the fans asking for autographs, the trips, all that is a dream.
Selena
#16. Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music as an excuse for its ovations.
Alfred Jarry
#17. Listen to the speeches, one after another telling the audience what it already knows, evoking applause with necessary cliches, no longer shocking anybody with the shocking facts of the war because you can become so jaded with horror that you develop an emotional callous.
Paul Krassner
#18. You've got to trust the ground you're standing on and the work you've done in telling your story. The goal should be to bring those thousands of people - viewers - together and make them one. When you feel that happening, it's usually in silence, not applause or laughter.
Kevin Spacey
#19. A story should, to please, at least seem true,
Be apropos, well told, concise, and new:
And whenso'er it deviates from these rules,
The wise will sleep, and leave applause to fools.
Benjamin Stillingfleet
#20. That's basically what the drive is: "I want to be famous, I want to be noticed, and I want to be approved of." That's basically what you're after. "Give me attention, give me applause, give me an audience. A. A. A. Straight As." That's all you're looking for.
George Carlin
#21. There is no reward so delightful, no pleasure so exquisite, as having one's work known and acclaimed by those whose applause confers honor.
Moliere
#22. A moment went by, and then every cell in Billy's body shook him with ravenous gratitude and applause.
Kurt Vonnegut
#23. All of us love applause, and so we should - it means that the listener likes us!
Emanuel Ax
#24. I try to hear her voice, try to separate that single pitch from the shouts and applause. But she's as lost to me as she was the night I cried and she didn't turn back to see if I was okay. Three weeks, two days, and twenty-three hours ago. And she's already with someone else.
David Levithan
#25. There is nothing that compares to an unexpected round of applause.
Lynn Abbey
#26. Sometimes stunned silence is better than applause.
Jenny Lawson
#27. Applause felt like approval, and it became a drug that soothed the pain, but only temporarily.
Anita Baker
#28. When I was 3, I recited a poem at a festival in Passaic, New Jersey. The applause was tremendous, and it hit me that I could affect people positively by performing.
Nina Arianda
#29. 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
#30. In her opinion her singing falls on deaf ears anyway; there is no lack of enthusiasm and applause, but she has long since given up hope of genuine understanding as she conceives it.
Franz Kafka
#31. For those of you in the cheap seats I'd like ya to clap your hands to this one; the rest of you can just rattle your jewelry!
John Lennon
#32. I still get a little nervous before performing. You don't want to forget a lyric; you don't want to make a mistake. I still get butterflies. You can try to judge an audience, but you can only really judge things by the applause.
Tony Bennett
#33. I have found so much joy and so much pride in contributing and being a team member, and then stepping back and watching someone else get the applause. That has been really satisfying in a way that I wouldn't have probably imagined.
Sara Bareilles
#35. To follow without halt, one aim; there is the secret of success. And success? What is it? I do not find it in the applause of the theater; it lies rather in the satisfaction of accomplishment.
Anna Pavlova
#36. Beware [of] the investment activity that produces applause; the great moves are usually greeted by yawns.
Warren Buffett
#37. You hit a certain age, and you haven't died yet, and you become an elder statesman. I think I get a lot of applause because I'm not keeling over.
Alan Arkin
#39. In short order, the unconventional became the established convention; the perverse was embraced as normal; the unspeakable was broadcast everywhere; the outrageous was met with enthusiastic applause.
Roger Kimball
#40. Real leadership is not seeking the applause from followers; real leadership is applauding the followers who become leaders.
Onyi Anyado
#41. My advice to you concerning applause is this: enjoy it but never quite believe it
Robert Montgomery
#42. The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping.
Dale Carnegie
#43. 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
#44. Magic is the stunning art of surprising your audience, so that nothing else surprises them.
Amit Kalantri
#45. Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.
Golda Meir
#46. There is nothing like the high of being on stage and reaping applause, especially for emotionally needy people like me!
Douglas Wood
#47. I tell the players: You'll hear a lot of applause in your life, fellas, but none will mean more to you than that applause-from your peers. I hope each of you hears that at the end.
Andre Agassi
#48. I would like to be going all over the kingdom ... and acting everywhere. There's nothing in the world equal to seeing the house rise at you, one sea of delightful faces, one hurrah of applause!
Charles Dickens
#49. How many souls have been blown into hell with the wind of popular applause?
Thomas Watson
#50. I remember walking out in front of that crowd, all the parents' faces and the applause, and folding my little self in half and thinking, 'I could get used to this.' And I just never stopped.
Dallas Roberts
#51. The skit was very successful based on the applause. After that show, the three of us decided to get together and try and come up with some songs that we could all participate in.
Phil Harris
#52. Would a musician feel flattered by the loud applause of an audience if he knew that they were nearly all deaf, and that, to conceal their infirmity, they set to work to clap vigorously as soon as ever they saw one or two persons applauding?
Arthur Schopenhauer
#53. Applause lavished at a whim and without discernment, often proves the ruin of young people training for a stage career.
Jean-Georges Noverre
#54. No act is so private it does not seek applause.
John Updike
#55. I want to fill a jar with a lot of clapping, and sell my applause next to the applesauce in a grocery store. You can eat the praise you didn't earn, but did pay for.
Jarod Kintz
#56. This is Quilty's audition ritual: whenever he feels it is time for it, he calls upon himself to audition for love. He has no script, no reliable sense of stage, just a faceful of his heart's own greasepaint and a relentless need for applause.
Lorrie Moore
#57. How many of us, who are engaged in the Lord's holy service, are secretly cherishing some proud purpose of excelling other men, of making a name, of securing money and applause.
F.B. Meyer
#59. If you say you're a unifier, you expect and usually get applause. I'm a divider. Politics is division by definition, if there was no disagreement there would be no politics. The illusion of unity isn't worth having, and is anyways unattainable.
Christopher Hitchens
#61. Oh, how thunderous the applause must be in Heaven, all those times we are mocked on earth for the sake of His name.
Mark Hart
#62. I consider it an indubitable mark of mean-spiritedness and pitiful vanity to court applause from the pen or tongue of man.
George Washington
#63. Awards and ceremonies are all an applause of discipline.
Sunday Adelaja
#64. Magicians made magic but critics made it tricks.
Amit Kalantri
#65. You just said you were sorry."
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"I was only apologizing," he said stiffly, "for startling you. The applause was to compliment you on the improvement in your life-saving techniques since the last time you-
Meg Cabot
#66. There are some whom the applause of the multitude has deluded into the belief that they are really statesmen.
Plato
#67. We are full of rhythms ... our pulse, our gestures, our digestive tracts, the lunar and seasonal cycles.
Yehudi Menuhin
#68. When you have done something that took courage and someone wants to share the joy you created for them by your actions, please give yourself permission to take the applause in whatever form it appears.
Amy Lisewski
#69. 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
#70. We must do our work for its own sake, not for fortune or attention or applause.
Steven Pressfield
#71. They've had the old clap-yo'-hands so many times it amounts to applause.
Truman Capote
#72. The State of the Union is less written than it is designed, structured and organized around applause prompts and camera cues.
Alex Pareene
#73. There is no applause that so flatters a man as that which he wrings from unwilling throats ...
Ouida
#74. Yes, young men, Italy owes to you an undertaking which has merited the applause of the universe. You have conquered and you will conquer still, because you are prepared for the tactics that decide the fate of battles.
Giuseppe Garibaldi
#75. There is nothing an economist should fear so much as applause.
Herbert Marshall
#76. Just about the only interruption we don't object to is applause.
Sydney J. Harris
#77. I wish I could describe what it feels like to have thousands of people listening to your every word, how easy it is to please them, to get that applause and to hear them out there screaming for you. It's like being in control of one big ocean and you can calm it down or make it roar.
Fannie Flagg
#78. My father upon the Abbey stage, before him a raging crowd.
"This Land of Saints," and then as the applause died out,
"Of plaster Saints;" his beautiful mischievous head thrown back.
William Butler Yeats
#79. I would like you all to give me a round of applause as I have not crashed my car in over 15 months.
Matthew Perry
#80. The more you worry about being applauded by others and making money, the less you'll focus on doing the great work that will generate applause. And make you money.
Robin Sharma
#82. Flattery of the verbal kind is gross. In short, applause is of too coarse a nature to be swallowed in the gross, though the extract or tincture be ever so agreeable.
William Shenstone
#83. Don't accept the applause of men, and you won't be destroyed by their criticism.
Reinhard Bonnke
#84. The best definition of profit I've ever heard is that it is the applause you get for satisfying your customers and creating a motivating environment for your people.
Kenneth H. Blanchard
#85. It matters not if the world has heard or approves or understands...the only applause we're meant to seek is that of nail-scarred hands.
B.J. Hoff
#87. I think you need to know that your hope hasn't been in vain. That there will be a happy ending. That when the show is over, you will hear applause.
Susan May Warren
#88. That's the greatest applause that any person will ever receive in their life when it comes from their peers
Andre Agassi
#89. I first felt successful when I was 13 and in a show called Seesaw. I came offstage and heard the applause of the theater audience and felt a sense of accomplishment. Around that time my role model for success was Burt Lancaster. He was one of the first ac.
Giancarlo Esposito
#90. I like the quiet it takes to pursue an idea the way I pursued 'Hamilton,' but I couldn't write a book, because there's no applause at the end of writing a book.
Lin-Manuel Miranda
#91. Success listens only to applause. To all else it is deaf.
Elias Canetti
#92. Writing is one of the loneliest of the arts; unlike the actor we have no immediate audience and must wait many long months, even years on occasion, for the splatter of applause to reach our ears, if indeed we are not damned by total neglect.
Bryan Forbes
#93. Those of you who speak only English, applaud [audience applause]. Those of you who speak only Spanish, applaud [audience applause]. [In mock incredulity] Then how do you know what I just said?
Gloria Estefan
#94. I appreciate your applause, but I don't do it for applause. I do it for cash, it's much better.
Eddie Izzard
#95. Instead of always asking how to get others to approve of you ... learn to ask: What do I really want, the applause of the crowds or to quietly have my own life?
Guy Finley
#96. Expressions of disapproval are on a level of vulgarity that cannot be tolerated. The way to express disapproval is to do without applause.
Rudolf Bing
#97. Everyone is an actor. In the end, everyone wants applause.
V.C. Andrews
#98. The vulgar and common esteem is seldom happy in hitting right; and I am much mistaken if, amongst the writings of my time, the worst are not those which have most gained the popular applause.
Michel De Montaigne
#99. We believe ... that the applause of silence is the only kind that counts.
Alfred Jarry
#100. Applause is the beginning of abuse
Ted Hughes
