Gesture Quotes

376 quotes by 304 authors

I have a big problem with conductors who gesture a lot. — James Levine
I think I actually made a very kind gesture out of nowhere; I decided in the middle of that match that for every ace I… — Serena Williams
Is a gesture of charity genuine or is it a kind of deep moral tax write-off? — Padgett Powell
Our stories arise from our hearts and our souls. In this sense, telling our stories becomes a sacred gesture, opening a clear way to that… — Susan Wittig Albert
You know about a person who deeply interests you more than you can be told. A look, a gesture, an act, which to everybody else… — Henry David Thoreau
The world around us is alive, he would have said, with our emotions and thoughts, and the space between any two people are charged with… — Dinaw Mengestu
The first serious consciousness of Nature's gesture - her attitude towards life-took form then as a phantasm, a nightmare, all insanity of force. For the… — Henry Adams
Within every man and woman a secret is hidden, and as a photographer it is my task to reveal it if I can. The revelation,… — Yousuf Karsh
Good movies make you care, make you believe in possibilities again. If somewhere in the Hollywood-entertainment world someone has managed to break through with something… — Pauline Kael
All my life I have struggled to make one authentic gesture.... — Isadora Duncan
For the theatre one needs long arms; it is better to have them too long than too short. An artiste with short arms can never,… — Roland Barthes
London goes beyond any boundary or convention.It contains every wish or word ever spoken, every action or gesture ever made, every harsh or noble statement… — Peter Ackroyd
When we speak, in gestures or signs, we fashion a real object in the world; the gesture is seen, the words and the song are… — Emile Chartier
Hence it is from the representation of things spoken by means of posture and gesture that the whole of the art of dance has been… — Plato
We can be dry as dust, distracted and insensible to God's presence. Still we can pray...and if we make even the smallest gesture of availability… — Carol Zaleski
As Gandhi wisely points out, even as we serve others we are working on ourselves; every act, every word, every gesture of genuine compassion naturally… — Wayne Muller
But a few understand that building is a great symbol we live in our minds, and existence is the attempt to bring that life into… — Ayn Rand
I returned to the white House after midnight more depressed than ever before. I had long since arranged to attend the World Series in Philadelphia… — Herbert Hoover
The highest of the world's mountains, it seems, has to make but a single gesture of magnificence to be the lord of all, vast in… — George Leigh Mallory
Poems come from ordinary experiences and objects, I think. Out of memory - a dress I lent my daughter on her way back to college;… — Sharon Olds

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