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
I've come to realize that the mark is the primal gesture, the internal connection of the caveman to the cosmos; an impossibility… — Joel-Peter Witkin Copy Share Image
On Creating — What we crave, what we want to see in others eyes, is that servile expression, an unconcealed infatuation with… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
When the music is physically demanding, I want to make sure that the effort involved is put across to the audience through… — Leila Josefowicz Copy Share Image
The quality of ideas seems to play a minor role in mass movement leadership. What counts is the arrogant gesture, the complete… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“The man tilted back his head, raised his eyebrows, cast his eyes to heaven, pouted his lips and said, "Tch!" "That performance,"… — Peter Paris Copy Share Image
There we were - demented children mincing about in clothes that no one ever wore, speaking as no man ever spoke, swearing… — Tom Stoppard 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
We can be dry as dust, distracted and insensible to God's presence. Still we can pray...and if we make even the smallest… — Carol Zaleski Copy Share Image
Often, organizations need bold, grand gestures to galvanize people towards a new mission or refocus their attention. — Howard Schultz Copy Share Image
Have you ever heard a good joke? If you've ever heard someone just right, with the right pacing, then you're already on… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
Gentleness in the gait is what simplicity is in the dress. Violent gestures or quick movements inspire involuntary disrespect. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
I'll wager at the end a body realizes the Lord has already shown Himself. That things as they are -- her hand… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
When something terrible happens, a lifetime of small events and unremarkable decisions, of unresolved anger, and unexplored fears begins to play itself… — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
The so-called new Russian man is characterized mainly by his complete exhaustion. You may find yourself wondering if he has the strength… — Ryszard Kapuscinski Copy Share Image
The novelist, unlike many of his colleagues, makes up a number of word-masses roughly describing himself (roughly: niceties shallcome later), gives them… — E. M. Forster 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
Love is not necessarily about grand gestures. It can be the little things, like someone knows you like a certain food so… — Emma Roberts Copy Share Image
No matter how you decide to spend a little more time on your gestures of giving, the point is just quite simply… — Nick Offerman Copy Share Image
He raised his hand in a peaceful gesture. "You need to relax a bit, dove. Like Mouse over there. You trust me,… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
Pain is strong, aye - but friends' eyes, more strong." I told him that he knows next to nothing about me &… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
When I make my drawings... the path traced by my pencil on the sheet of paper is, to some extent, analogous to… — Alberto Giacometti Copy Share Image
A deaf and dumb person who sees two men in conversation - may nevertheless understand from the attitudes and gestures of the… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The ballet. I saw in the fugitive beauty of a dancer's gesture a symbol of life. It was achieved at the cost… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
