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  • I'm also getting an Ovation Legend, because I like them so much. -- Mark Knopfler
  • True art awakens the Extraordinary Ovation -- Hafez
  • To have that kind of ovation, that happens very seldom for a lineman. -- Jerry Kramer
  • I love working in Canada. The ovation is great. It makes me feel like I'm the top dog. -- Owen Hart
  • The standing ovation threw me... to be held in such regard in a town so full of talent is quite something. -- Michael Caine
  • Well, I think if more people had more applause, it would make them feel better. I often give my wife a round of applause. If the meal is very good I give her a standing ovation. -- Tom Baker
  • I received the most fantastic welcome to the Broadway Theatre community. I walked on stage to tremendous applause and a long standing ovation, wondering when I was ever going to be able to say my first line! -- Elaine Paige
  • I have to say, I do love the Ovation guitars. If I had one guitar to play, it would be that one, and it's got nothing to do with having my name on it. I absolutely rely on it. -- Kaki King
  • A thunderous boo is one thousand times stronger, nobler, and more powerful than a standing ovation. Admiration corrupts. -- Nelson Rodrigues
  • I hit some great shots in my lifetime; now I hit a decent shot and I get a standing ovation. -- Martina Navratilova
  • Live your life, sing your song. Not full of expectations. Not for the ovations. But for the joy of it. -- Rasheed Ogunlaru
  • One night in Pittsburgh, thirty-thousand fans gave me a standing ovation when I caught a hot dog wrapper on the fly. -- Dick Stuart
  • Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music as an excuse for its ovations. -- Alfred Jarry
  • Standing ovations have become far too commonplace. What we need are ovations where the audience members all punch and kick one another. -- George Carlin
  • I think there should be a rule that everyone in the world should get a standing ovation at least once in their lives. -- R. J. Palacio
  • It is not always a matter of wild ovations and legendary performances. Sometimes you are just happy to get through an opera without trouble. -- Luciano Pavarotti
  • OVATION, n. n ancient Rome, a definite, formal pageant in honor of one who had been disserviceable to the enemies of the nation. A lesser "triumph." -- Ambrose Bierce
  • Many a standing ovation has been caused by someone jumping to his feet in an effort to beat the rest of the audience to the parking lot. -- Earl Wilson
  • I don't think I would be a good politician. I kid about it when I get a standing ovation. Sometimes I'll say, "I may run for Governor," but it's strictly a joke. -- Liberace
  • Any actress will tell you, when you've been given a starring role in the initial run of a show, you want to be getting the standing ovations every night, not just on review night. -- Martine McCutcheon
  • Throwing out the first pitch at the Cubs game and having 40,000 people give me a standing ovation was probably one of the highlights of my life. You could see what a great sports town Chicago is. -- Patrick Kane
  • If you're dreaming of being a great soloist, walking on stage, receiving ovations night after night, having money thrown at you, girls chasing after you and your beautiful picture - that's wonderful. But what exactly does that have to do with the practice of music ? -- Wu Han
  • My son now is 22 months old, he's been playing since he was 12 months old and he gets standing ovations on the drums. He's been with us since he was 10 weeks old, he's been on the drums. He's got blisters on his fingers before he can even talk. -- Dick Dale
  • I worked for 20 directors as a production designer, most male. I was on the set to witness firsthand a range of sometimes atrocious emotions - well-documented firings, yellings, fights between directors and actors, hookers, abusive things, budget overages, lack of preparation. A man gets a standing ovation for crying because he's so sensitive, but a woman is shamed. -- Catherine Hardwicke
  • The greatest gratification that I get to work with these hands is that when I come out and I go to the waiting room and speak and talk to the families of my patients, I get standing ovations and I get tears and they look at me as superhuman and superhero. No amount of money, no amount of anything can ever compare to that feeling. -- Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa
  • When someone throws up while watching one of your movies, it's like a standing ovation. -- Eli Roth
  • I don't expect to get a standing ovation from businessmen when I call for higher wages. -- Peter Bofinger
  • I always said, 'A blind dog with three legs could get a standing ovation for singing 'I'm Still Here!' -- Polly Bergen
  • I have also noticed that when a rider who had confidence in his ability was defeated, after doing his level best to win, always received an ovation from the gathering. -- Major Taylor
  • I was blown away by the standing ovation. I've had tributes before, sure, but I don't retain that feeling, and I wasn't prepared for it on Tuesday. But maybe you shouldn't retain these things or you'd be on a permanent high. -- Burt Bacharach
  • If someone had told me when I was a kid I'd get an ovation from Frank Sinatra! One time, I did a song called 'I Am A Singer', but I rewrote the words for Frank. I was in tears and, when he got up, so was he. -- Irwin Thomas
  • Every night, you fight for that standing ovation at the end of the night. And if you do something wrong, the domino effect is chaotic. And you must not allow yourself to make mistakes whatsoever. So in that case, theater, it's fascinating because of the discipline that you need. -- Ricky Martin
  • I get a standing ovation just standing -- George Burns
  • I walked backstage, standing ovation. Everyone was backstage clapping. -- The Miz
  • It is a brave man who is the first to sit down during a standing ovation. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  • Let the ovation be louder when you leave the stage than it was when you climbed it -- Constance Chuks Friday
  • I had a fucking standing ovation going on in my goddamn pants, and it was demanding an encore. -- Nenia Campbell
  • I hit some great shots in my lifetime; now I hit a decent shot and I get a standing ovation -- Martina Navratilova
  • I always said, 'A blind dog with three legs could get a standing ovation for singing 'I'm Still Here!'' -- Polly Bergen
  • One minute I'm standing at Ronnie Scott's getting a standing ovation and the next minute, I'm on a marble slab -- Keith Richards
  • It's entirely possible that there won't be a standing ovation at the end of your journey. That's okay. At least you lived. -- Seth Godin
  • Benjamin Netanyahu understands that the standing ovation he got in Congress this year was not for his politics. That ovation was bought and paid for by the Israel lobby. -- Thomas Friedman
  • Because Cards' fans are the most knowledgeable and loyal in all of baseball, they booed almost reluctantly, polite as booing goes, what would have passes as a standing ovation in Philly. -- Buzz Bissinger
  • The bow is so old, its horsehair is glue Sent to the factory, just like me and like you So how come they stayed your execution? The audience roars its standing ovation "Dust, -- Gayle Forman
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