While this debate today is a belated effort to inform the American people, it is nevertheless an empty gesture. It is time… — Raul Grijalva Copy Share Image
My parents had a pub and each Sunday there was an accordionist. They have told me that when I was in my… — Toots Thielemans Copy Share Image
So much of language is unspoken. So much of language is compromised of looks and gestures and sounds that are not words.… — Garth Stein Copy Share Image
I'll be honest, I felt an urge to squeeze him like a kitten and that led to the gesture I made. There… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Typographical design should perform optically what the speaker creates through voice and gesture of his thoughts. — El Lissitzky Copy Share Image
...a nation could change its way of life, its history, its technology, its art, literature, and culture, but it would never have… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Politicians do nothing but ask of us, during every expiration of a legal statute, "a gesture of trust." But here trust is… — Indro Montanelli 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
Bernard Hopkins' style is the way...everything he does is for a reason - little head feints, little hand movements, little shoulder rolls… — Chris Algieri Copy Share Image
The painting is always conceived as the linear record of a rhythmic gesture: it is a graph of a dance executed by… — Roger Fry Copy Share Image
Survivors do not mourn together. They each mourn alone, even when in the same place. Grief is the most solitary of all… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
I read a lot of books. Here are the books I'm using for my 9/11 project. [Wright gestures to three six-foot-long shelves… — Lawrence Wright Copy Share Image
It is hard for me to imagine that I felt good about behaving like that. I also remember that the smallest gesture… — Bernhard Schlink Copy Share Image
We must open our eyes to admire God who hides and at the same time reveals himself in things and introduces us… — Pope John Paul II 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
-The little things,Emma. The gestures,the moments. And the big. I let him see my heart. I gave it to him,even when I… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
I cannot find any patience for those people who believe that you start writing when you sit down at your desk and… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
However gross a man may be, the minute he expresses a strong and genuine affection, some inner secretion alters his features, animates… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
There is a gesture he has, a motion, that always reminds me of a great batter leaning into a hit. He has… — Gene Lees Copy Share Image
Good movies make you care, make you believe in possibilities again. If somewhere in the Hollywood-entertainment world someone has managed to break… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
It's not the length but the quality of life that matters to me. It has always been important to me to write… — Jane Rule Copy Share Image
The one who decides who goes ahead has the upper hand, regardless of who gets to go. This is why many women… — Deborah Tannen Copy Share Image
[Ritual] dwells in an invisible reality and gives this reality a vocabulary, props, costume, gesture, scenery. Ritual makes things separate, sets them… — Barbara Myerhoff Copy Share Image
“I have, for my own projected works and ideas, only the silliest and dewiest of hopes; no matter what, I am romantic… — Frank O'Hara Copy Share Image
Sometimes, all it takes is one gesture, one word, to change the course of someone's life. Even if you know it won't… — Jean-Claude Izzo Copy Share Image
Every gesture is a gesture from the blood, every expression a symbolic utterance... Everything is of the blood, of the senses. — Henry Williamson Copy Share Image
“I have come to realize that my stupid gestures excites women alot, and if I'm really stupid, i will dare to take… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
I make a gesture that is intended to convey, "Hey, no hurry, talk as long as you'd like," and probably actually conveys,… — John Green Copy Share Image
You should not cause hurt even by a word, a look or a gesture. Tolerance, fortitude, equanimity - these help you to… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
The real question, after all, is not the quantity of life, but its quality, its depth, its purity, its fortitude, its fineness… — Joseph Fort Newton Copy Share Image
I have seen these persons speak unthinkingly, not realizing that to speak is also to be. Word and gesture are man's thought.… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
They belonged to that vast group of human automata who go through life without neglecting to perform a single one of the… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
But I also know that sometimes Adam needs to do things the dramatic way. He is fond of the Grand Gesture — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
I've got a quick mouth, and I set my boundaries. Nothing ever happened that I couldn't handle. Once when a guy came… — Suzi Quatro Copy Share Image
We are full of rhythms . . . our pulse, our gestures, our digestive tracts, the lunar and seasonal cycles. — Yehudi Menuhin Copy Share Image
It is, at the most basic level, a bundle of contradictions: a desire for power that strips you of all power. A… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
The gesture must be correct. If the gesture is correct, your mind really creates the reality of the figure, and it is… — Nathan Oliveira Copy Share Image
The higher the artist, the fewer the gestures. The fewer the tools, the greater the imagination. The greater the will, the greater… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
For the theatre one needs long arms; it is better to have them too long than too short. An artiste with short… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
When you speak to any, especially of quality, look them full in the face; other gestures betraying want of breeding, confidence, or… — Frances Osborne Copy Share Image
![“I read a lot of books. Here are the books I'm using for my 9/11 project. [Wright gestures to three six-foot-long shelves of books.] As I read them I highlight certain passages. Then I have an assistant write down each quote on an index card and note where it came from.” quote by Lawrence Wright](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/124/lawrence-wright-5166_assistants_i-read-a-lot-of-books-here-are-the-books_3017414.jpg)
![“[Ritual] dwells in an invisible reality and gives this reality a vocabulary, props, costume, gesture, scenery. Ritual makes things separate, sets them apart from ordinary affairs and thoughts. Rituals need not be solemn, but they are formalized, stylized, extraordinary, and artificial. In the name…” quote by Barbara Myerhoff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/86f/barbara-myerhoff-71321_affair_ritual-dwells-in-an-invisible-reality-an_1483884.jpg)
![“I have, for my own projected works and ideas, only the silliest and dewiest of hopes; no matter what, I am romantic enough or sentimental enough to wish to contribute something to life’s fabric, to the world’s beauty… [S]imply to live does not justify existence, for life is a mere gesture on the…” quote by Frank O'Hara](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fe1/frank-o-hara-6706_beautiful_i-have-for-my-own-projected-works-and-id_2863598.jpg)
![“The gesture must be correct. If the gesture is correct, your mind really creates the reality of the figure, and it is not necessary to hang on all the rest [of the details].” quote by Nathan Oliveira](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fff/nathan-oliveira-47608_details_the-gesture-must-be-correct-if-the-gestu_1839771.jpg)
