Clapping Quotes

• Life starts out with everyone clapping when you take a poo and goes downhill from there.

  Sloane Crosley

  Sloane Crosley (2012). “I Was Told There'd Be Cake”, p.110, Portobello Books

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• You know the sound of two hands clapping; tell me, what is the sound of one hand?

  Hakuin Ekaku

  Hands, Two, Sound

  As quoted in "Wild Ivy: The Spiritual Autobiography of Zen Master Hakuin" translated by Norman Waddell, (p. 179), 2010.

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• Clapping my hands with the echoes the summer moon begins to dawn.

  Matsuo Basho

  Summer, Moon, Echoes

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• A truly extraordinary work: vivid, passionate and utterly compelling. The Sound of One Hand Clapping is raw as a wound. It opens a world that is strange, brutal and poetic at once and ultimately achieves the kind of spirit-healing few novels do

  Niall Williams

  Healing, Hands, Sound

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• Do you believe in fairies? Say quick that you believe. If you believe, clap your hands!

  James M. Barrie

  Believe, Hands, Fairy

  Peter Pan act 4 (1928)

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• Sometimes when I see a bad performance and people still clap... I wonder if they're clapping because they liked what they saw or because they're happy it's over?

  Kanye West

  People, Saws, Sometimes

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• Someone will always tell you what you want to hear.

  Delia Ephron

  Best Friendship, Want, What You Want

  Delia Ephron (1988). “Funny sauce”, Signet

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• Showing joy by jumping up and down and clapping goes away at some point between pre-school and being old enough to go to orgies.

  Dana Gould

  School, Jumping, Joy

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• There's always the cliche of the choir shouting and clapping. OK, you have to do that, but there's also introspective parts, parts where you just follow someone that's preaching. There's lots of different emotions and moods that a service requires.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Different, Emotion, Cliche

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• It was fantastic for me to see the cheering and clapping and it showed maybe not all of them want me out of a job!

  Sven-Goran Eriksson

  Jobs, Cheer, Want

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• Pure entertainment is not an egotistical lady singing boring songs onstage for two hours and people in tuxes clapping whether they like it or not. It's the real performers on the street who can hold people's attention and keep them from walking away.

  Andy Kaufman

  Song, Real, Two

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• But when I’m jumping, it’s as if my feelings are going upward to the sky. Really, my urge to be swallowed up by the sky is enough to make my heart quiver. When I’m jumping, I can feel my body parts really well, too—my bounding legs and my clapping hands—and that makes me feel so, so good.

  Naoki Higashida

  Heart, Jumping, Hands

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• When you are not near me, I make the sound of one hand clapping.

  Dan Fogelberg

  Hands, Sound, Compliment

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• maybe memories are like karaoke-where you realize up on the stage, with all those lyrics scrawling across the screen's bottom, and with everybody clapping at you, that you didn't know even half the lyrics to your all-time favourite song. Only afterwards, when someone else is up on stage humiliating themselves amid the clapping and laughing, do you realize that what you liiked most about your favourite song was precisely your ignorance of its full meaning- and you read more into it than maybe existed in the first place. I think it's better to not know the lyrics to your life.

  Douglas Coupland

  Song, Memories, Ignorance

  Douglas Coupland (2011). “The Gum Thief: A Novel”, p.85, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• I never thought in a million years that I would do a weekly series.

  Jennifer Ehle

  Years, Series, Millions

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• Hearing people clapping draws you in pretty quick. It's like bungee cord jumping - it's a rush; you just want to do it again.

  Jason Aldean

  Jumping, People, Want

  "A-T web exclusive interview with Jason Aldean". www.audio-technica.com.

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• It is not the bowing, the dancing, the clapping and the singing that produce the worship, for at best they can only express that worship, but it is the worship that produces the jubilant responses.

  Judson Cornwall

  Dancing, Singing, Worship

  Judson Cornwall (2013). “Let Us Worship”, p.50, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Applause is an instinctive, unconscious act expressing the sympathy between actors and audience. Just as our art demands more instinct than intellect in its exercise, so we demand of those who watch us an apppreciation of the simple unconscious kind which finds an outlet in clapping rather than the cold intellectual approval which would self-consciously think applause derogatory. I have yet to meet the actor who was sincere in saying that he disliked applause.

  Ellen Terry

  Art, Exercise, Simple

  Dame Ellen Terry (1908). “The Story of My Life: Recollections and Reflections”

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• One of the greatest distinguishing marks of false prophet is that he will always tell you what you want to hear, he will never rain on your parade; he will get you clapping, he will get you jumping, he will make you dizzy, he will keep you entertained, and he will present a Christianity to you that will make your church look like a six flags over Jesus.

  Paul Washer

  Jesus, Rain, Jumping

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• I've always considered myself a failure: I feel I've never done anything wholly right. [...] Everybody will tell you, "Oh no, how can you say that, because ten thousand people clap you on a night?" But part of that is reflex action and part of it is because you're reasonably good. But if you're great, that's a different thing.

  Ronnie Drew

  Failure, Night, Thinking

  "Ronnie". Book by Ronnie Drew, September 3, 2009.

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• A wise man once asked me, "What is the sound of one hand clapping?" I thought for a minute, then I slapped him across the face. That got him off my back.

  Matthew Diamond

  Wise, Men, Hands

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• Fever jumped aside just in time to dodge the shower of urine, and stumbled into the path of a religious procession - celebrants in robes and pointed hats whirling and clapping and chanting the name of some old-world prophet, 'Hari, Hari! Hari Potter!'

  Philip Reeve

  Religious, Names, Potters

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• Even as the Sun doth not wait for prayers and incantations to rise, but shines forth and is welcomed by all: so thou also wait not for clapping of hands and shouts and praise to do thy duty; nay, do good of thine own accord, and thou wilt be loved like the Sun.

  Epictetus

  Life, Prayer, Hands

  Epictetus (2015). “The Golden Sayings of Epictetus”, p.82, Booklassic

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• Stand-up came naturally to me because people in Ireland talk. But that's not talking on panel shows; it is structured fun. It reminds me of some tragic aunt clapping her hands and bouncing into a room and announcing we should all play games... and if we don't we are all a rotten spoilsport.

  Dylan Moran

  Fun, Aunt, Hands

  "Dylan Moran: 'Panel shows bore me'" by Alex Fletcher, www.digitalspy.com. February 25, 2011.

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• Onstage, I don't feel any glory from people clapping in the audience, but when they're pushing me to do something new that feels good.

  Jack White

  People, Feel Good, Pushing

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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