You know about a person who deeply interests you more than you can be told. A look, a gesture, an act, which… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Conan Doyle is amazing in the way he has Watson describe Sherlock’s posture, mood swings, his hand gestures, and so forth in… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
Speech is not a means in the service of an external end. It contains its own rule of usage, ethics, and view… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture I love) I shan't have lied. It's evident the art of losing's not too… — Elizabeth Bishop Copy Share Image
Whenever I go to bars in London, people send me over Cosmopolitans. It's a very sweet gesture, but I don't like them,… — Kim Cattrall Copy Share Image
What would a Martian visitor think to see a human being laugh? It must look truly horrible: the sight of furious gestures,… — Marvin Minsky Copy Share Image
Sometimes, one gesture comprises an entire drama, the accent of one word ruins an entire existence, and the indifference of one glance… — Honore de Balzac 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
To see life. To see the world. To watch the faces of the poor, and the gestures of the proud. To see… — Henry R. Luce Copy Share Image
As soon as I suspect a fine effect is being achieved by accident I lose interest. I am not interested...in unskilled labor.… — Minnie Maddern Fiske Copy Share Image
I love to leave, to be ready-for, to be on the run! That's my boyish side, it's the pant's me! Pants which… — Sonia Rykiel Copy Share Image
Morley put his hand over his heart and bowed from the waist, a gesture that somehow reminded Claire of Myrnin. It reminded… — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
Tea ceremony is a way of worshipping the beautiful and the simple. All one's efforts are concentrated on trying to achieve perfection… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
They were governed by private loyalties which they did not question. What mattered were individual relationships, and a completely helpless gesture, an… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
One of the problems is that the notion of cancer has been so normalized. You hear about it so often, and it's… — Jennifer Beals Copy Share Image
Let us lose none of their humble words, let us note their slightest gestures, and tell me, tell me that we will… — Georges Duhamel Copy Share Image
Paranoia imposes its own vision on the external world; it differs from other kinds of visionary experience in that the paranoid wants… — Louis Simpson 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
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
I've been hooked on films ever since I can remember renting VHS tapes. But who got me hooked? I think life did.… — Jaime Zevallos Copy Share Image
You may be right. I think it was round about Christmas when I got my Welsh dragon tattoo.” At that, Tessa had… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I asked each if [Yao Xingtong and Zhang Lanxin] was afraid of heights. Each said no, and although they had never had… — Jackie Chan Copy Share Image
The notion of political correctness has ignited controversy across the land. And although the movement arises from the laudable desire to sweep… — George H. W. Bush 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
we must be precise with love, its language and its gestures. If it is to save us, we must look at it… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Sometimes, in that darkness, there is a single act of love, some selfless gesture, an aspiration, and we see that it's not… — John L'Heureux Copy Share Image
I remember very clearly someone saying, 'Don't shake hands with the cactus,' and I thought, 'Well, why not? What could possibly go… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
Major brands don't know what to do with happy customers. They make it hard for customers to say thanks and way too… — Paul Walker 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
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
You know, in the WikiLeaks cables, the Chinese discovered that Kevin Rudd was urging the Americans to keep the military option open… — Paul Keating Copy Share Image
In really fancy restaurants they never point to the bathroom, they just gesture toward the bathroom or they'll lead you to the… — Nico Muhly Copy Share Image
Art is just a series of natural gestures. For God's sake, don't try to be artistic - all wild animals walk the… — John Marin Copy Share Image
Yo, yo, yo, check it out," said PJ, with enough hand gestures that any deaf person watching would have thought he had… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
It was one of the late Conservative Government's gestures towards agriculture -- graceful as a kiss, and of about as much use. — Sheila Kaye-Smith Copy Share Image
All the gestures of children are graceful; the reign of distortion and unnatural attitudes commences with the introduction of the dancing master. — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
You can, when Time is ripe, swope to your feet - at your full height - at a single gesture. Ready to… — Marita Bonner Copy Share Image
Dating is about grand romantic gestures that mean little over the long term. Marriage is about small acts of kindness that bond… — Lori Gottlieb Copy Share Image
In song and dance, man forgets how to walk and speak and is on the way into flying into the air, dancing...… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We were awash in tiny attentions. Small gestures, words, empathies thought to be extinct came to life... We discovered the color of… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image