You don't go to a town to present the play and have applause at the end of it, but that's benign conquest. It's a glorious way of exploring other landscapes and other cultures in a very life-affirming way.
C'mon, we're actors. We love the attention. We love the applause. We sure don't like to be rejected.
God gave music the power to carry his light into the darkness. That’s a mighty privilege. It means intentionally telling stories and writing songs that bear truth that outlasts the songs themselves. If I did this in hopes of thunderous applause and piles of cash, I would have quit years ago. But there are moments on the stage when I sense something magical, a connection with the band and the audience, when our stories intersect and suddenly we’re wading in an ancient river. Suddenly the song is secondary to the greater story being told through each of us.
We are full of rhythms. . . our pulse, our gestures, our digestive tracts, the lunar and seasonal cycles.
Humility responds to God's will-to the fear of His judgments and to the needs of those around us. To the proud, the applause of the world rings in their ears; to the humble, the applause of heaven warms their hearts. Someone has said, "Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man. "
What good are fans? You can't eat applause for breakfast. You can't sleep with it.
Did I play my role well? If so, then applause, because the comedy is finished!
From self alone expect applause.
I always get more applause than votes.
Behind the footlights there is always the applause, which stimulates the actors. On the screen it is a different matter.
Just about the only interruption we don't object to is applause.
We cannot at once catch the applauses of the vulgar and expect the approbation of the wise.
There is always a certain noise in applause: even in the applause we give ourselves.
Only in the theatre was it possible to see the performers and to be warmed by their personal charm, to respond to their efforts and to feel their response to the applause and appreciative laughter of the audience. It had an intimate quality; audience and actors conspired to make a little oasis of happiness and mirth within the walls of the theatre. Try as we will, we cannot be intimate with a shadow on a screen, nor a voice from a box.
There's a huge difference between the shallow pleasure of instant applause and the long-lasting impact of true connection.
Bacon's the best, even the frying of bacon sounds like an applause.
So this is how liberty dies. With thunderous applause.
I have written my work, not as an essay which is to win the applause of the moment, but as a possession for all time
