#reception

Be the responsibility on their heads who raise this novel and extraordinary question of reception, going to the unconstitutional abridgment, as I conceive, of the great right of petition inherent in the People of the United States. ↗

— Caleb Cushing

#extraordinary #going #great #heads #i

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

#been #commercial #commercial success #critically #dream

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

#book #business #good #hard #kind

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 M. Glaser

#around #countries #extraordinary #filming #four

I believe if you write a great book, the chances are it'll get a great reception. ↗

— Charlaine Harris

#book #chances #get #great #great book

With the question of the effect of a poem, the topic of investigation shifts from that of textual autonomy to textual reception - to the issue of what we actually look for or find in reading a poem. ↗

— Thomas Harrison

#autonomy #effect #find #investigation #issue

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

#efforts #gives #meet #much #observations

Honestly, I expected to get a cold reception because of my subject matter. But when editors took a look at the story I had to tell, and saw that this was not a parochial story at all, they really warmed to it. ↗

— Laura Hillenbrand

#cold #editors #expected #get #had

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

#being #does #far #hasn #hit

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

#complete #formation #ground #habit #indeed