Clap Quotes

Archie Rice: Don't clap too hard – it's a very old building. (John Osborne)
Those in the cheaper seats clap. The rest of you rattle your jewelry. View quote
John Lennon
Do you believe in fairies?...If you believe, clap your hands! View quote
J. M. Barrie
For our last number, I'd like to ask your help. Would the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands... and the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry? View quote
John Lennon
Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry. View quote
John Lennon
No no no! Don't clap! No no no, you make me seem like I'm like a prophet or something and I'm so not! View quote
Janeane Garofalo
I do feel that evolution is being controlled by some sort of divine engineer. I can't help thinking that. And this engineer knows exactly what he or she is doing and why, and where evolution is headed. That's why we've got giraffes and hippopotami and the clap. View quote
Kurt Vonnegut
You didn't," John said, stepping from the shadows as he clapped for me, "even hit your head this time. View quote
Meg Cabot
Earth, the world, the fifth planet from the sun-the species that stands on two legs and roams this thin wet crust: it's changing, Lobey. It's not the same. Some people walk under the sun and accept that change, others close their eyes, clap their hands to their ears, and deny the world with their tongues. View quote
Samuel R. Delany
I don't know what singers feel like when they make a song and people clap along and love it, but when people walk up to me and say the food was outstanding, that's what it is all about. I cook because I like to make people happy. View quote
Guy Fieri
We should not clap our hands and mourn, for he is out of trouble. You are still in it. (David Ruffin)
I have seen him set fire to his wigwam and smooth over the graves of his fathers... clap his hand in silence over his mouth, and take the last look over his fair hunting ground, and turn his face in sadness to the setting sun. View quote
George Catlin
People in the Hall of Fame tend to clap their hands and say, 'OK, I've done it all,' but for me, it was a new beginning. View quote
Jimmy Cliff
It's a career that's enticing because you go on stage, for example, and people clap. You get that affirmation, but you can't go into acting for that because it's really your own self-belief that's going to get you through. View quote
Miranda Otto
Don't worry about never having time to write. Just write what you can in the time you do have and give yourself a big clap on the back, followed by a double latte and a blueberry muffin. View quote
Rachel Johnson
Financially: All attention is engrossed in devising new modes of taxation, without any adequate effort to increase the means of the people to pay; and the consequent vexation and oppressiveness of the taxes imposed, imperial and local. Inequitable financial relations between England and India, i.e., the political debt of,100,000,000 clapped on India's shoulders, and all home charges also... View quote
Dadabhai Naoroji
On March 22, at 5 pm stand on your doors and windows for 5 minutes and clap, ring a bell to salute people who are serving the nation tirelessly. View quote
Narendra Modi
We no longer like to think about bureaucracy, yet it informs every aspect of out existence. It's as if as a planetary civilization, we have decided to clap out hands over our ears and start humming whenever the topic comes up. View quote
David Graeber
You charming sex, you will be free; like men, you will enjoy all the delights that nature has made your obligations; you will not have to be constrained in any pleasure. Must the more divine section of humanity be clapped in irons by the less divine section? Ah, smash those chains-nature wants you to smash them! You should have no other limits than your leanings, no other laws than your cravings, no other morals than nature; stop languishing in those barbaric prejudices that caused your charms to fade and imprisoned the godly surges of your hearts. View quote
Marquis de Sade
Be to her virtues very kind; Be to her faults a little blind; Let all her ways be unconfined; And clap your padlock - on her mind! View quote
Matthew Prior
I remember that on one occasion Mossadegh swooned in the midst of a speech to our Parliament. When a hastily summoned doctor started to loosen his clothes, Mossadegh instantly revived enough to clap his hand over his wallet. The old hypocrite had not been unconscious at all; he was merely pretending in the hope of impressing his audience. I think this incident, observed by many, illustrates one of Mossadegh's cardinal characteristics- namely, his insincerity. (Muhammad Reza Pahlavi)
It takes two hands to clap. View quote
Jiang Zemin
Children are the most wonderful audiences. What's struck me most is that that they watch it so silently, until the end when they shriek and shout and clap. View quote
Emma Thompson
People will clap to be nice. They will not laugh to be nice. View quote
Kenny Rogers
In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is offering too little and asking too much. The French are with equal advantage content, So we clap on Dutch bottoms just twenty per cent. View quote
George Canning