But it seems to me that once you begin a gesture it's fatal not to go through with it. — John Updike Copy Share Image
If this gesture was the way of getting out of the penitentiary, Id do it. — Lee J. Cobb Copy Share Image
Why do people always gesture with their hands when they talk on the phone? — Jonathan Carroll Copy Share Image
The most shocking act, closely examined, is just a louder version of some habitual gesture. — Susan Choi Copy Share Image
The smallest gesture can mean to much to those who may need a little lift in their lives. — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
Participation in and of itself is an act against hopelessness. Speaking up is a gesture against hopelessness. — Anohni Copy Share Image
Every important cultural gesture comes down to a morality, a model for human behavior concentrated into a gesture. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“it is (often) the quiet gesture which carries the most significance - the one which suddenly directs the symphony.” — mary anne radmacher Copy Share Image
I think by drawing, so I'll draw or diagram everything from a piece of furniture to a stage gesture. I understand things… — Robert Wilson Copy Share Image
“Thanks. I forgot how to flip off the English. I'll use the correct hand gesture next time." "My pleasure. Always happy to… — Stephanie Perkins Copy Share Image
“Aren‘t you going to get up?" He put a hand on the curve of her hip, a possessive gesture that had already… — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
Wearing a suit can seem like a somewhat archaic gesture, a concession to formality in a determinedly casual age. — Tom Junod Copy Share Image
There's something strange about a laptop, how you can make the tiniest gesture and make the biggest sound. I don't feel I've… — Anna Meredith Copy Share Image
“Every gesture, however simple, violates an inner secret. Every gesture is a revolutionary act; an exile, perhaps, from the true ... of… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
I want to gesture toward a poetry of ourselves and others under the conditions of twenty-first-century absolutism, making us dimensional in a… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Making music is an inward and outward gesture at once. I make it because I'm communing with a side of myself that… — Arca Copy Share Image
The spirit listens only when the speaker speaks in gestures. And gestures do not mean signs or body movements, but acts of… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
“And eighteen times this easy gesture, this stooping over with the tee between the fingers, the ball hidden, protected in the perspiring… — Randy Attwood Copy Share Image
“He extended a finger to her face, the simple gesture bringing into play the sleek muscles of his shoulders and arms. “You… — Chris Lange Copy Share Image
I often need physical gesture to balance dialogue. If I write in public, every time I need to know what a character… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Touch is a reciprocal action, a gesture of exchange with the world. To make an impression is also to receive one, and… — Robert Macfarlane Copy Share Image
“We walk up the sandy slope toward the dining terrace. I see Troy sitting at a table with some people I know.… — Kaui Hart Hemmings Copy Share Image
“simple gesture carried so much significance to her. From her romantic novels, she knew the practice dated from chivalry when it was… — Dorothy Wiley Copy Share Image
“The MIT physicist and award-winning novelist Alan Lightman also leverages grand gestures. In his case, he retreats each summer to a “tiny… — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
“You see the first thing we love is a scene. For love at first sight requires the very sign of its suddenness;… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“Charlus takes the narrator's chin and slides his magnetized fingers up to the ears "like a barber's fingers." This trivial gesture, which… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“The camera was a hand-held auxiliary of wanting-to-know. It had more than information and accuracy to teach me. I learned in the… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
“I thought, as I wiped my eyes on the corner of my apron: Penelope did this too. And more than once: you… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
“In a gesture of socialist support, the Dear Leader placed his hand upon her.” — Adam Johnson Copy Share Image
Morality's not practical. Morality's a gesture. A complicated gesture learnt from books. — Robert Bolt Copy Share Image
Each single gesture of art must be daring. One must not be concerned with the side-effects. — Toni Servillo Copy Share Image
“It is only a gesture,” he said, turning back to Shadow. “But gestures mean everything.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
It's a rather rude gesture, but at least it's clear what you mean. — Katharine Hepburn Copy Share Image
In the end, the gesture of painting becomes almost meditative, like a ritual. — Shahzia Sikander Copy Share Image
