I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate.… — Walter Huston Copy Share Image
The shadow had followed behind them, clinging to their steps; and the two children little suspected its presence when they at last… — Gaston Leroux 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
In drawing, I don't erase. I believe the original gesture has to be the best. — Ellsworth Kelly Copy Share Image
To write well, to have style ... is to paint. The master faculty of style is therefore the visual memory. If a… — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
Even if you close your eyes, you'll still hear Donald Trump sniffing. Linguists might call [these visuals] paralinguistics, every form of information… — Ben Zimmer Copy Share Image
A sentence is like a tune. A memorable sentence gives its emotion a melodic shape. You want to hear it again, say… — Robert Pinsky 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
In the intercourse of social life, it is by little acts of watchful kindness recurring daily and hourly,--and opportunities of doing kindnesses… — George Augustus Henry Sala Copy Share Image
All these are readers, and their gestures, their craft, the pleasure, the responsibility and the power they derive from reading, are common… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
Behavior influences consciousness. Right behavior means right consciousness. Our attitude here and now influences the entire environment: our words, actions, ways of… — Taisen Deshimaru Copy Share Image
I don't quite comprehend why you'd force someone to bow when the purpose of the gesture is to display allegiance and respect. — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
I love words very much. I've always loved to talk, and I've always love words — the words that rest in your… — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
What I've come to learn is that the world is never saved in grand messianic gestures, but in the simple accumulation of… — Chris Abani 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
And always the animals from each trip you bring back a gaze a pose a gesture that points to the truest of… — Chris Marker Copy Share Image
Sometimes a slow gradual approach does more good than a large gesture. — Craig Newmark Copy Share Image
Tasting is an act of pleasure and writing about that pleasure is an artistic gesture, but the only true work of art,… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
Only as a grand gesture of defeat will men creep into the arms of the state and seek refuge in its power… — Henry Wriston Copy Share Image
Truly, more than removing the partition between vectors and values, we would have needed to talk about strengthening crisscrossed lacings: an intertwined… — Regis Debray Copy Share Image
Without the meditative background that is criticism, works become isolated gestures, historical accidents, soon forgotten. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
It is believed by experienced doctors that the heat which oozes out of the hand, on being applied to the sick, is… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
International relationships are preordained to be clumsy gestures based on imperfect knowledge. — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
How is the mind which functions on knowledge how is the brain which is recording all the time to end, to see… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image