#applause

I did not approve of your action—I was merely congratulating myself. What you mistook for clapping was merely me giving myself multiple high fives.
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— Jarod Kintz

#applaud #applause #approve #clap #clapping

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

#applause #approval #both #cooking #course

When I got through, Duke Ellington stood up and started the applause. ↗

— Ruth Brown

#duke #duke ellington #ellington #got #i

Laughter is much more important than applause. Applause is almost a duty. Laughter is a reward. ↗

— Carol Channing

#applause #duty #important #laughter #more

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

#broke #communal #crowds #deeply #embrace

The only principles of public conduct that are worthy of a gentleman or a man are to sacrifice estate, ease, health, and applause, and even life, to the sacred calls of his country. ↗

— James Otis

#calls #conduct #country #ease #estate

Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#attentive #give #his #laws #like

A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself; he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success. ↗

— Alec Waugh

#confident #desires #doubting #himself #his

The wider you spread your fingers apart while clapping is equal to the amount of retarded you look while clapping. ↗

— Christy Leigh Stewart

#clapping #funny #funny-and-random #retarded #equality

My left hand is my bad hand. I spank it with my right hand. You might call it clapping, but I call it discipline. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#applause #clap #clapping #discipline #funny