It takes a little more time to get into the role, but not very much more. In making a record you don't… — Maria Callas Copy Share Image
A fine lady; by which term I wish to express the result of that perfect education in taste and manner, down to… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
Poems come from ordinary experiences and objects, I think. Out of memory - a dress I lent my daughter on her way… — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
A man has only a limited number of ways in which he can express strong emotions or violent passions. He uses the… — Tadeusz Borowski Copy Share Image
Let us ask... how things work at the level of on-going subjugation, at the level of those continuous and uninterrupted processes which… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
When you play somebody, you pick up a lot of their gestures, his voice, the way he speaks, his body language. You… — Robert Loggia Copy Share Image
Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons. — Friedrich Nietzsche 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
Never raise your hand menacingly, but only in a friendly gesture! — Sophie von La Roche Copy Share Image
This element of surprise or mystery - the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called - is of great importance… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
As much preparation as I had made for the old man Salieri, gestures and so on, the fact is after sitting for… — F. Murray Abraham Copy Share Image
My art is just an effort to express the truth of my being in gesture and movement. It has taken me long… — Isadora Duncan Copy Share Image
“Ivy waved the wet handkerchief, as much as to say, words cannot possibly articulate my profound distress. Then, because Ivy never settled… — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
He was not as soft as when I'd first met him, not as young, but the angles of his face, his quick… — Maggie Stiefvater 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
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
I put my pencil upon the paper, doubtfully, and drew little lines, considering my theme. But I would not long hesitate in… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
“When he smiles, they mostly look away. But Martin likes to think they carry his smile for a few blocks – that… — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
But she still had that something which fires the imagination, could still stop one's breath for a moment by a look or… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
At the door, there was one of those moment when two people realize that they like each other more than they know… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
By exposing the multiplicity, the facticity, the repetition and stereotype at the heart of every aesthetic gesture, photography deconstructs the possibility of… — Rosalind E. Krauss Copy Share Image
It's one of the most liberating things I experience in writing - letting yourself get rid of a gesture or character or… — Leslie Jamison 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
Paint records the most delicate gesture and the most tense. It tells whether the painter sat or stood or crouched in front… — James Elkins Copy Share Image
