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The Immaculate Reception became the Zapruder Film of sports. -- Stephen J. Dubner
There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence. -- Philip James Bailey
We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts. -- William Hazlitt
Do not for a moment suppose that you must make yourself better, or prepare your heart for a worthy reception of Christ, but come at once - come as you are. -- Archibald Alexander
The honorable William Penn, late governor of Pennsylvania, was chosen agent to the Court of Britain, and directed to deliver the petition to the King himself and to endeavor by his personal influence to procure a favorable reception to this last address. -- Mercy Otis Warren
Our thinking is a pious reception. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you think marriage is going to be perfect, you're probably still at your reception. -- Martha Bolton
My favorite time to dance is at, like, wedding receptions, when it's all ages and everyone seems to be having fun. -- Neil Patrick Harris
Chakras are organizational centers for the reception, assimilation, and transmission of life-force energy. They are the stepping stones between heaven and earth. -- Anodea Judith
They that never peeped beyond the common belief in which their easy understandings were at first indoctrinated are strongly assured of the truth of their receptions. -- Joseph Glanvill
Apparently God takes reception of Holy Communion seriously. Apparently some things are more sacred than politics. Apparently it's all or nothing when it comes to being Catholic. -- Carl Olson
Were it not for the shepherds, there would have been no reception. And were it not for a group of stargazers, there would have been no gifts. -- Max Lucado
It is by desiring to grow in love that we receive the Holy Spirit, and the thirst for more charity is the effect of this more abundant reception. -- Thomas Merton
All must admit that the reception of the teachings of Christ results in the purest patriotism, in the most scrupulous fidelity to public trust, and in the best type of citizenship. -- Grover Cleveland
Keith Moon, God rest his soul, once drove his car through the glass doors of a hotel, driving all the way up to the reception desk, got out and asked for the key to his room. -- Pete Townshend
I can go in front of an orchestra. I can go in front of an audience. But if you see me walking through an audience in the reception or through a lot of people, I'm still shy. -- Kurt Masur
Look, Matisse I ain't. You know how they have on the invitations, a reception for the artist will be held at... And I say, Look, you gotta change this. I'm not an artist. I'm a photographer, a skilled craftsman. -- Phil Stern
On Sofia Coppola's 16th birthday, way back in 1987, I stole a lip gloss from her Sistine Chapel of a bedroom. Years later, I left a Chanel lip gloss in the reception of the Mercer Hotel for her. You know why? I believe that you've got to fix your karma. -- Courtney Love
People here are quite struck aback at Sunday's news of the capture of New Orleans. It took them three days to make up their minds to believe it. The division of American had become an idea so fixed that they had about shut out all the avenues to the reception of any other. -- Henry Adams
Oh! yes, (the prayer meeting) is the place to meet with the Holy Ghost, and this is the way to get His mighty power. If we would have Him, we must meet in greater numbers; we must pray with greater fervency, we must watch with greater earnestness, and believe with firmer steadfastness. The prayer meeting...is the appointed place for the reception of power. -- Charles Spurgeon
How kind is our Sacramental Jesus! He welcomes you at any hour of the day or night. His Love never knows rest. He is always most gentle towards you. When you visit Him, He forgets your sins and speaks only of His joy, His tenderness, and His Love. By the reception He gives to you, one would think He has need of you to make Him happy. -- Peter Julian Eymard
Painting, by its nature, cannot provide an object of simultaneous collective reception... as film is able to do today... And while efforts have been made to present paintings to the masses in galleries and salons, this mode of reception gives the masses no means of organizing and regulating their response. Thus, the same public which reacts progressively to a slapstick comedy inevitably displays a backward attitude toward Surrealism. -- Walter Benjamin
If intelligence were a television set, it would be an early black-and-white model with poor reception, so that much of the picture was gray and the figures on the screen were snowy and indistinct. You could fiddle wiht the knobs all you wanted, but unless you were careful, what you would see often depended more on what you expacted or hoped to see than on what was really there. -- Madeleine Albright
I believe if you write a great book, the chances are it'll get a great reception. -- Charlaine Harris
It's a great, great experience to finally get the reception that you know you rightfully deserve. -- Kendrick Lamar
I don't know what reception I'm at, but for God's sake give me a gin and tonic. -- Denis Thatcher
I challenge those who are in business and other professions to see that there are copies of the Book of Mormon in their reception rooms. -- Ezra Taft Benson
It's impossible to control the reception of your work - the only thing you can control is the experience of writing itself, and the work you create. -- Kim Edwards
Apparently God takes reception of Holy Communion seriously. Apparently some things are more sacred than politics. Apparently it's all or nothing when it comes to being Catholic. -- Carl Olson
I have no private interest in the reception of my inventions by the world, having never made, nor proposed to make, the least profit by any of them. -- Benjamin Franklin
There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions. -- Jane Austen
Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion. Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art. -- Remy de Gourmont
Publishing is a very mysterious business. It is hard to predict what kind of sale or reception a book will have, and advertising seems to do very little good. -- Thomas Wolfe
Now I know the difference between a rousing reception and a pat on the back. Now I know the difference between a gold in Commonwealth Games and a bronze in Olympics. -- Gagan Narang
I left the table where there were important people and had lunch with my husband and a few friends. The reception was organised in my honour, so it was rather amusing. -- Nana Mouskouri
The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit. -- Aristotle
Repenting and coming unto Christ through the covenants and ordinances of salvation are prerequisite to and a preparation for being sanctified by the reception of the Holy Ghost and standing spotless before God at the last day. -- David A. Bednar
When I planned my wedding the first time, my ex-husband and I, we were both struggling comics. I had a TV show that had gotten cancelled. Basically, I rented a wedding gown; the reception hall smelled like feet. -- Sherri Shepherd
Americans hate their cable companies - for bumbling installers, on-again-off-again transmissions, peculiar channel selections, and indifferent customer service. The only thing cable subscribers hate more than the cable company is not being able to get what it delivers: multichannel selection and good reception. -- Virginia Postrel
When you're acting in a movie, you never consider the reception of it. It's impossible to predict how something will be received. Even if you think it's the greatest thing in the world, other people might not like it. Or agree with it. -- Jesse Eisenberg
I found that I was getting a warm reception for my message of freeing you from the income tax, releasing you from Social Security, ending the insane war on drugs, restoring gun rights, and reducing the federal government to just its constitutional functions. -- Harry Browne
Turkey Hollow is a small country town in Sullivan County, a remote region of the Catskill Mountains. Surrounded by forests, it counts 10 full-time residents, has no mail service, and no cell phone reception. However, what it lacks in amenities, it compensates for in sheer natural wonder. -- David Mixner
I met Prince William at a musical festival and he let me know he was a fan of my music. But the invitation to sing at his wedding reception came completely out of the blue. The fact that Kate and William knew the words to my songs was very touching. -- Ellie Goulding
There's an expression in Australia that's called 'Go Bush,' which means to get out of the city and relax. I try and 'go bush' to places where there's no cell reception. But, I don't get to do that often, so for the most part, it's just a state of mind. -- Cate Blanchett
I'm not in a position where I get to pick and choose roles. I usually go on auditions in long lines and embarrass myself in front of casting directors, and with a lump in my throat and my ears burning, I walk past reception and smirking actors as I go to the parking garage and go back on the highway. -- Henry Rollins
Victoria heard across the wedding reception dance floor "You're loveable"! -- Danielle Steel
Your intention for a book is never the same as the reception. -- Neil Strauss
Ideas are forces; our acceptance of one determines our reception of others. -- George Henry Lewes
The last thing I think about when I'm making music is its reception. -- Grimes
AT&T to wed T-Mobile. Following the ceremony there will be no reception. -- Richard Lerner
Old beach houses sometimes don't have TVs, or you don't get cellphone reception. -- Jim Rash
The atmosphere you create influence the reception the other person will give you. -- Unarine Ramaru
It is very rewarding to walk out on stage, feeling the love and reception. -- Debbie Reynolds
A man's reception depends upon his coat; his dismissal upon the wit he shows. -- Pierre-Jean de Beranger
Outside their country, Hungarian directors have had, from the critics at least, a friendly reception. -- Tibor Fischer
The main reception foyer was almost empty but Ford nevertheless weaved his way through it. -- Douglas Adams
People are not soured by misfortune, but by the reception they meet with in it. -- William Hazlitt
I must say, I feel the reception of my work is none of my business. -- Judith Butler
A spa hotel? It's like a normal hotel, only in reception there's a picture of a pebble. -- Rhod Gilbert
I am particularly interested in creating a relationship between ideas of reception in conceptual art and theater. -- Tim Crouch
Interpretation blocks reception while masquerading as reception. Rightness does not need interpretation; it requires simple acceptance and nothing else. -- Vernon Howard
Pulling heads off Barbies, sticking them on the TV antenna and ruining the reception. But thats how witch babies are. -- Francesca Lia Block
The relation of feeling toward art and its bringing-forth can be one of production or one of reception and enjoyment. -- Martin Heidegger
All hope is lost of my reception into grace; what worse? For where no hope is left, is left no fear. -- John Milton
there seem to be times of reception and times of creation and it is perhaps difficult not to confuse the two. -- Margaret Wise Brown
A man with a good coat upon his back meets with a better reception than he who has a bad one. -- Samuel Johnson
No reception without reaction, no impression without correlative expression, -this is the great maxim which the teacher ought never to forget. -- William James
If man had not been his own classifier, he would never have thought of founding a separate order for his own reception. -- Charles Darwin
I love the tradition of changing gowns throughout the reception. I know it's a little extravagant, but why not - it's your moment. -- Austin Scarlett
I was hoping to get a reception like this, I'd just hoped that it would be on Thursday night instead of Tuesday night. -- Howard Dean
It's an honor, indeed I'm glad, to join in giving a warm reception to a book that has given me many delightful moments. -- Enrique Vila-Matas
The infinity of All ever bringing forth anew, and even as infinite space is around us, so is infinite potentiality, capacity, reception, malleability, matter. -- Giordano Bruno
He that condescended so far, and stooped so low, to invite and bring us to heaven, will not refuse us a gracious reception there. -- Robert Boyle
Every man depends on the quantity of sense, wit, or good manners he brings into society for the reception he meets with in it. -- William Hazlitt
Singing still brings me tremendous joy, the reception you get and you never know what people are going to share with you after the event. -- Lee Greenwood
Singing is my dream and, while it may have not been a commercial success, critically I was thrilled with the reception my first album got. -- Minnie Driver
The planned sit-down reception is an artificial forum where one is presented with a limited number of persons with whom he can hold a conversation. -- Jerzy Kosinski
I love pizza so much, I would marry pizza, but it would just be an elaborate ploy to eat her whole family at the reception. -- Mike Birbiglia
I didn't think American Pie was going to be what it was! I had a very small role and the reception I received was just crazy. -- Jennifer Coolidge
The result of teaching small parts of a large number of subjects is the passive reception of disconnected ideas, not illumed with any spark of vitality. -- Alfred North Whitehead
That sort of reception - where everything is assimilated to the world of celebrity - makes me dream of becoming a more recalcitrant, harder to assimilate writer. -- Susan Sontag
If I do find myself walking up the aisle and dancing at my own wedding reception, I want the first dance to be both spontaneous and dramatic. -- Anton du Beke
Its impossible to control the reception of your work - the only thing you can control is the experience of writing itself, and the work you create. -- Kim Edwards
I think a compliment ought always to precede a complaint, where one is possible, because it softens resentment and insures for the complaint a courteous and gentle reception. -- Mark Twain
I think a compliment ought always to precede a complaint, where one is possible, because it softens resentment and insures for the complaint a courteous and gentle reception -- Mark Twain
We are pleased with the very positive reception our offer has received, and are confident that progress is being made towards establishing the regulatory framework for the offer. -- Lakshmi Mittal
This is something essential to art: reception is never its goal. What counts for me is that my work provides material to reflect upon. Reflection is an activity. -- Thomas Hirschhorn
God has spoken to me differently through my life, and it has gotten better as I've gotten older. I don't know if that's my reception or his maturing. -- Rick Springfield
And out came an insult with the velocity of a whisper. But I could see I offended, so I zipped up my pants and left the wedding reception. -- Jarod Kintz
All I know is reception; I am and I have: but I do not get, and when I fancied I had gotten anything, I found I did not. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I think the people from Mississippi ought to come to Chicago to learn how to hate." Martin Luther King, Jr. after the violent reception he received in Chicago in 1966. -- Rick Perlstein
... outsiders are way more likely to approach your organization with fabulous projects if they think they're likely to both get a good reception and succeed when they get to market. -- Seth Godin
The reception for 'Enemy?' I don't care. No matter what other people think, it was important for me. I will stand for that movie, even if I stand alone. -- Denis Villeneuve
[At the reception following her remarriage to Alan Campbell:] People who haven't talked to each other in years are on speaking terms again today - including the bride and groom. -- Dorothy Parker
[Geology] may be looked upon as the history of the earth's changes during preparation for the reception of organized beings, a history, which has all the character of a great epic. -- Edward Forbes
Nothing perhaps has so retarded the reception of the higher conclusions of Geology among men in general, as ... [the] instinctive parsimony of the human mind in matters where time is concerned. -- Charles Lapworth
I really, really thought that it was a no-brainer in terms of being a hit. And so it does surprise that that hasn't been the manifested reception of it so far. -- Ron Glass
That which of all things unfits man for the reception of Christ as a Savior, is not gross profligacy and outward, vehement transgression, but it is self-complacency, fatal self-righteousness and self-sufficiency. -- Alexander MacLaren
One will feel the same subtle nausea coming into the city or waiting to depart from it that one feels now in such plastic catacombs as O'Hare's reception center in Chicago. -- Norman Mailer
To aim to convert a man by miracles is a profanation of the soul. A true conversion, a true Christ, is now, as always, to be madeby the reception of beautiful sentiments. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
My first marriage was very traditional, in the church, and then we left the church and went to the reception hall. So this time, I'd like to go fairy tale all the way. -- NeNe Leakes
I'm a big fan of 'Glee.' I think it's really smart. And I think it's well-timed. But you can't not be surprised at the reception this show's received. It's really something else. -- Cory Monteith
We were surprised that the television series had the kind of longevity that it had after only four years of filming it and the reception in 6 countries around the world was quite extraordinary. -- Paul Michael Glaser
If intellection and knowledge were mere passion from without, or the bare reception of extraneous and adventitious forms, then no reason could be given at all why a mirror or looking-glass should not understand. -- Ralph Cudworth
I've got a radio that occasionally I listen to. It's portable. It's got an antenna. I've put a piece of aluminum foil on it that gives me a little bit better reception. And a refrigerator. -- Burt Shavitz
It was reported in the paper that President Bush received a 'warm reception' from the Daytona 500 drivers. Well sure, the drivers had never met anyone who was sponsored by more oil companies than they were. -- Jay Leno

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