The gesture of the amorous embrace seems to fulfill, for a time, the subject's dream of total union with the loved being:… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
What the people call eloquence is the facility some persons have of speaking alone and for a long time, aided by extravagant… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
For myself I never plan the way I deliver a message. I do prepare the content, and then I open my mouth… — Anne Graham Lotz Copy Share Image
Excesses are essentially gestures. It is easy to be extremely cruel, magnanimous, humble or self-sacrificing when we see ourselves as actors in… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Call it my little gesture toward social conscience, but I like to think I'm teaching a certain number of people to read.… — David Eddings Copy Share Image
All the bystanders at an event worthy of note adopt various gestures of admiration when contemplating the occurrence. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Dialogue is not just quotation. It is grimaces, pauses, adjustments of blouse buttons, doodles on a napkin, and crossings of legs — Jerome Stern Copy Share Image
Gestures come first! Before we're consciously aware of our thoughts, we start to gesture. Pay attention to your gestures, and others', and… — Nick Morgan Copy Share Image
Religion, art, and science flourish best in a free society. True, freedom does not afford much opportunity for grand gestures. It has… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
All of my fights are planned. I study my opponents from A to Z. How he walks, how he looks, how he… — Wladimir Klitschko Copy Share Image
Books leave gestures in the body; a certain way of moving, of turning, a certain closing of the eyes, a way of… — Dionne Brand Copy Share Image
You can't get at the thing itself, the real nature of the sitter, by stripping away the surface. You can only get… — Richard Avedon Copy Share Image
It was inevitable: Yankel fell in love with his never-wife. He would wake from sleep to miss the weight that never depressed… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I know that when a supersexy older girl with hips and breasts and nice hair wants to take off your glasses and… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
My most persistent memory of stand - up is of my mouth being in the present and my mind being in the… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
I want each character to be as unique as possible. I want them to reflect something of who they are in the… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
Good movies make you care, make you believe in possibilities again. If somewhere in the Hollywood-entertainment world someone has managed to break… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
However gross a man may be, the minute he expresses a strong and genuine affection, some inner secretion alters his features, animates… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Thus I progressed on the surface of life, in the realm of words as it were, never in reality. All those books… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I cannot find any patience for those people who believe that you start writing when you sit down at your desk and… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
“Never presume to know a person based on the one dimensional window of the internet. A soul can’t be defined by critics,… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
The holiday season promotes a heightened sense of community. It draws our chins up and helps us look above and over the… — Mary Anne Radmacher Copy Share Image
Listen- all that she was then, all that she is now, those gestures, everything I remember but won't or can't articulate anymore,… — Elliot Perlman Copy Share Image
Then something unexpected happens. At least, I don't expect it because I don't think of District 12 as a place that cares… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, I wondered if I might speed up his words by grabbing his wrists and finishing his gestures for him.” — Erik Bundy Copy Share Image
I think men know to seduce women though words and conversation and nice gestures. That's much sexier than when a man uses… — Donatella Versace Copy Share Image
A brand is a living entity-and it is enriched or undermined cumulatively over time, the product of a thousand small gestures. — Michael Eisner Copy Share Image
somewhere i have never traveled, gladly beyond any experience, your eyes have their silence; in your most frail gesture are things which… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I want to become less and less about the laptop. That's what's lovely about an orchestra - the physicality, the way every… — Anna Meredith Copy Share Image
His movements were so graceful that I wondered if he had been a dancer, but his words betrayed to me that his… — Maria V. Snyder Copy Share Image
A dog – a collie – went up to Eric, looked up at his face, and growled. “Shoo,” Eric said, making an… — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
I really like the structure of my body. It moves well, it looks good, it photographs well, it understands gesture and nuance. — Carrie Mae Weems Copy Share Image
Oh longing for places that were not Cherished enough in that fleeting hour How I long to make good from afar The… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Religion, even the most primitive and superstitious, is inevitably a beginning of culture. It is not possible without some kind of symbolic… — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
Women can be vivacious. We are allowed more varieties of facial expression and gestures. Men must be rocklike. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Postmodernism surely requires an even greater grasp of symbolism, as it's increasingly an art of gesture alone. — Andrew Eldritch Copy Share Image
All art is an intensely vulnerable gesture, and it is made with no small amounts of risk, and fear. So, I have… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
Kisses open doors, I've noticed. That one gesture can unlock secrets, ease open feelings. It can't be prevented--these kisses just are. It's… — Susan Fletcher Copy Share Image
Writing is, after all, a gesture towards other people, giving something to others. And so it's not a completely hermetic exercise. It's… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
The haiku reproduces the designating gesture of the child pointing at whatever it is (the haiku shows no partiality for the subject),… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
