A magician reveals himself not only by the magic he presents but also by the respect and entertainment he gives to his audience.

When I think about my dad, I start clapping. I’m not applauding because he lived, but because he died.

He bantered us, challenged us, electrified us . . . At times his eloquence held us silent as images and some witty turn, some humorous phrase brought roars of applause. At times we cheered almost...

A vain man can never be utterly ruthless: he wants to win applause and therefore he accommodates himself to others

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.

At present, a good many men engaged in scientific pursuits, and who have signally failed in gaining recognition among their fellows, are endeavoring to make reputations among the churches by delivering weak and vapid lectures...

If you are a magician then you can always do a lot more magic than you think you can.

I am the Hooray Distributor. Hold your hands flat, not like begging for money, but as if you’re about to applaud. Now clap, damn you.

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

There is nothing that compares to an unexpected round of applause.

Live your life in such a way that when a video coverage is taken of you either in light or in the darkness, it can receive an applause when it is shown in your chapel...

May I propose a little toast? For all the ones who hurt the most. For all the friends that we have lost. Let’s give them one more round of applause.

As a magician you will miss the hundred percent of the applause if you don’t perform.

Strive and thrive on high fives. Oh sure, I’d rather eat a round of applause, but when you’re starving you’ll eat anything. Even still, I’d rather eat a bucket of boos than anything from McDonald’s.

As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever be the vice of the most exalted characters

Nobody kicks on being interrupted if it’s by applause.

We believe… that the applause of silence is the only kind that counts.

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

The genius of a great magician is as impressive as the genius of a great scientist.

I don’t eat applesauce, but I do eat applause. I don’t use a spoon—I eat applause with my hands.

Some guns were fired to give notice that the departure of the balloon was near. … Means were used, I am told, to prevent the great balloon’s rising so high as might endanger its bursting....

It’s about that applause I want to speak to you. I want you to remember that when you’ve done a little dance or a song or sketch, the applause which you get is not only...

APPLAUSE, n. The echo of a platitude.

We should welcome applause whenever it comes.

A magician must always value his magic effects more than himself, because after few years audience may not remember his name but they will remember his magic effect.

Word of mouth is often louder than word of hand, although applause can be deafening. I clap like Helen Keller drank coffee—with two spoonfuls of silence.

There was so much to learn and it was all fun. But the best part was getting a laugh from an audience. That was like drowning in candy.

When you can be your own best audience and when your applause is the best applause you know of, you ‘ re in good shape.

When he strikes somebody out to end an inning, there’s just an explosion of applause. Not that it’s not loud when any of our pitchers gets a strikeout to end an inning. But when he...

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.

Magicians made magic but critics made it tricks.

It’s nice to hear applause.

19-year ninja veterans are best at representing 16-year-old cave shadows. So let us not delay in making love to the sound of clapping. Though we need no applause for our performance.

In a horrified silence he stood up, and to renewed applause, danced a little jig. He returned to the stage a final time, ostentatiously dusting off his tails to demonstrate that he was OK.

What good are fans? You can’t eat applause for breakfast. You can’t sleep with it.

A high five is a two-person applause. Me and my clone will be excited to clap for you after we present you with the Julius Caesar Author of the Year Award. Keep up the great...

Evil report carries further than any applause

The hoopla, the applause, the praises have never excited me.

I love like a leaf in the wind. Please, hold your applause until the end of the performance (the last day of fall).

Virtue was vanity dressed up and waiting for applause.

Magic is the stunning art of surprising your audience, so that nothing else surprises them.

It’s not wise for me to extend a congratulatory handshake while your hands are busy clapping for me. I’ll wait for your applause to die down—or for my mother-in-law to die before we shake in...

The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.

When an audience shares your prejudices you can always count on their applause.

I used the boos, and not the booze, as motivation. That led to applause, which I drank up like an alcoholic. I need a refill.

In the vain laughter of folly, wisdom hears half its applause.

A great piece of music make people to close their eyes but a great magic effect make their eyes wide open.

Cats are meowable gloves you don’t wear, you pet to keep your hands warm. But I keep my hands warm the old-fashioned way—by applauding all the political rhetoric coming out of Washington DC.

You clap. The Censor wakes up. We all get into trouble.

Applause: the echo of a prejudice.