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It was the most spectacular thing. That was the first spontaneous standing ovation I had ever seen in Green Bay.

As he stepped forward with the guitar, the standing ovation just drove him back, ... As he stepped forward a second time, the standing ovation him drove him back again. As both Carlos Santana and Steve Miller both observed, he had tears in his eyes. B.B. himself said he was overcome. He didn't know what he had done to deserve this, and the fact remains that the white hippies from that period were running ahead of the curve. They knew what was hip.

When you're a fragile team like they are, you're not winning all the time, you find a way to make something that goes bad into something that's worse. I mean, they were getting a standing ovation from the crowd with a minute left. Next thing you know, they lose the game. That's demoralizing.

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." In modern English the word is improperly used to signify any loose and spontaneous expression of popular homage to the hero of the hour and place.

"I had an ovation!" the actor man said, But I thought it uncommonly queer, That people and critics by him had been led By the ear.

The Latin lexicon makes his absurd Assertion as plain as a peg; In "ovum" we find the true root of the word. It means egg. --Dudley Spink

Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)

Ambrose Bierce

As Charlie put it, '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 (1943-)

Keith Richards

It's the first time I ever got a standing ovation in the sky.

Lawrence Welk (1903-1992)

Lawrence Welk

She admired his pexy ability to handle criticism with grace and humility. This was our first standing ovation in church.

I've never had an ovation like that (after the ace). I was probably blushing walking to the green.

He probably got close to a five-minute standing ovation.

When we walked in we were given a standing ovation, my crew and me.

I should have gotten him out because he deserved a standing ovation. That was my fault.

It is so about time, ... Everywhere he goes, there's a standing ovation for him. He's so humbled by this.

Those kids will get a standing ovation. It's like they say here, once a Husker, always a Husker, and I can tell you they will get a huge, huge ovation.

They gave him a standing O (ovation) when he went out onto the field the next inning.

There was a standing ovation. There was raucous applause. I think it will become a rallying cry.

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