quotations about applause
Applause is like that, much more the expression of the group than of the sum of its individual members, it oddly both obliterates and then reinforces the sense of self.
GUY DAMMANN
"Applause for thought", The Guardian, June 13, 2007
So there was no applause
When we brought down the curtain
We were so certain
There wasn't anything left to say
BARBRA STREISAND
"If It's Meant to Be"
If a man accepts applause when people like what he does, he should accept hissing from people who don't like what he does.
LEOPOLD STOKOWSKI
attributed, 20,000 Quips & Quotes
The movies enable an actor not only to act, but also to sit down in the theater and clap for himself.
WILL ROGERS
attributed, 20,000 Quips & Quotes
They threw their caps
As they would hang them on the horns o' the moon,
Shouting their emulation.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Coriolanus