Change will not come from above, it will come from below, from the small and medium size businesspeople. They do dare to show their faces. They applaud us and help us financially.
Vicente Fox

Education begins at home and I applaud the parents who recognize that they - not someone else - must take responsibility to assure that their children are well educated.
Ernest Istook

Even if you don't like a concert of mine, please, please applaud at the end anyway.
Emanuel Ax

Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance.
William O. Douglas

Friends applaud, the comedy is over.
Ludwig van Beethoven

I applaud anything that can take a kid away from a PlayStation or a Gameboy - that is a miracle in itself.
Gary Oldman

I applaud my mother now for getting me through that time and making me believe in myself.
Leah Remini

I applaud the American Cancer Society for all they do to eradicate smoking. Their local, state and national efforts help to discourage young people from taking up this deadly habit and the resources they provide have helped numerous smokers quit.
Allyson Schwartz

If there were no rules about when to applaud, we in the audience would have the right response almost always.
Emanuel Ax

Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing.
Aesop

So don't applaud. Just send me the check.
Broderick Crawford

The best part about being a stand-up is the connection with the audience. There's nothing more gratifying then when you can make 300 people applaud and stand up - because that's all you.
Aries Spears

The diligent scholar is he that loves himself, and desires to have reason to applaud and love himself.
William Godwin

The more they applaud, the bigger your salary will be.
Anna Held

The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
Will Rogers

The trouble with the Labour Party leadership and the trade union leadership, they're quite willing to applaud millions on the streets of the Philippines or in Eastern Europe, without understanding the need to also produce millions of people on the streets of Britain.
Arthur Scargill

The U.S. views Morocco as an important friend, and we applaud your political and economic reforms that culminated with the recent parliamentary elections that were widely reported to have been conducted in a fair and open manner.
Donald Evans

The whites come to applaud a Negro performer just like the colored do. When you've got the respect of white and colored, you can ease a lot of things.
Nat King Cole

We can't all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by.
Will Rogers

We seem to have set up some very arcane rules as to when it is actually OK to applaud.
Emanuel Ax