Ordinarily, of course, I thought it best to remain inconspicuous, but the gesture had a certain irresistable theatricaility, and an inevitablility. Sometimes… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
Love, love, love – all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
There is something in the micro-gestures in Australia that I just understand. It's something I grew up with - how people interact,… — Ashley Zukerman Copy Share Image
Art-making is learned by immersion. You take in vocabularies of thought and feeling, grammar, diction, gesture, from the poems of others, and… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
Australians are decent people with the right instincts and they wish everybody well; but if all is not well, it is none… — George Mikes Copy Share Image
For me, personally, life in South Africa had come to an end. I had been lucky in some of the whites I… — Peter Abrahams Copy Share Image
I had learned to have a perfect nausea for the theatre: the continual repetition of the same words and the same gestures,… — Isadora Duncan Copy Share Image
It is not the man who is beside himself, but he who is cool and collected,--who is master of his countenance, of… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
When you are in a live-action movie, you have so many more options to express yourself. You can use your body and… — Jesse Eisenberg Copy Share Image
There is only one way to receive transmission. When I tell you something, do it immediately, without the least wavering thought. That's… — Daniel Odier Copy Share Image
I never look at the internet because then you just have nothing else to do but just look. Most generally, and even… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
All human action is expressive; a gesture is an intentionally expressive action. All art is expressive - of its author and of… — Norbert Lynton Copy Share Image
I'm still primarily interested in observing as closely as possible the shifting weather between people. I think the master of this sort… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
I did not know whether I would ever speak to her or not or, if I spoke to her, how I could… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Geric," she called. He turned back around. "What kind of flowers were they?" "I don't rightly know," he said. He made faltering… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
Millions of couples out there practiced the art of sadomasochism every day, without even realizing it. They went to work, came back,… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
The ability to name poetry's gestures and rhetorics isn't required to write or read them, any more than a painter needs to… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
“She thinks of how much more space a being occupies in life that it does in death; how much illusion of size… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
Like most portrait photographers, I aim to record the instant the subject is not thinking about being photographed, striving to get beyond… — Martin Schoeller Copy Share Image
The WRITER of memoir gets incoming weirdness in very odd ways. I was recently talking to a memoir writer whose work just… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
There's a spectrum of possibilities. You can underline the bass, or not at all. You can create something that is well-anchored or… — Laurence Equilbey Copy Share Image
The evil eye is the fascinum, it is that which has the effect of arresting movement and, literally, of killing life. At… — Jacques Lacan Copy Share Image
I wore it, this careless thing you don't even remember giving to me from your bag. It wasn't a gift, this thing… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
The leaves are falling, falling as from way off, as though far gardens withered in the skies; they are falling with denying… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
To imagine a new world is to live it daily, each thought, each glance, each step, each gesture, killing and recreating, death… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
When you're doing voice work, you're in a bubble where you just think about the story and the words. They record you… — Christina Hendricks Copy Share Image
From that time forth he believed that the wise man is one who never sets himself apart from other living things, whether… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Just as the orator marks his good things by a dramatic pause, or by raising and lowering his voice, or by gesture,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I encourage the translators of my books to take as much license as they feel that they need. This is not quite… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
In a movie, it's often important to have aliens whose gestures and facial expressions can be 'read' by humans. And in the… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
When he painted a road, the roadmakers were there in his imagination, when he painted the turned earth of a ploughed field,… — John Berger Copy Share Image
In the sixties, the recycling of pop culture turning it into Pop art and camp had its own satirical zest. Now we're… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
That is what is wrong with cold people. Not that they have ice in their souls - we all have a bit… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
Let every fart count as a peal of thunder for liberty. Let every fart remind the nation of how much it has… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
in race relations, the single gesture and the single individual are more often than not doomed to failure. Only the group and… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
Let us dig our gardens and not be elsewhere; Let us take long walks in the open air... Let us bathe in… — Robert Linssen Copy Share Image
“We must remember that some hand gestures which are commonly used and widely accepted in the U.S. might be considered rude or… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
Every single aspect of a text requires very careful choices and rigorous evaluation. Style is employed - or deployed - for a… — C.E. Morgan Copy Share Image
I have the ability to sing with emotion and feeling, but if you say I sound like Billie Holiday, that's cool. Let's… — Erykah Badu Copy Share Image
Shape without form, shade without color, Paralyzed force, gesture without motion; Those who have crossed With direct eyes, to death's other Kingdom… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
