Gesture Quotes

376 quotes by 304 authors

Power immobilizes; it freezes with a single gesture-grandiose, terrible, theatrical, or finally, simply monotonous-the variety which is life. — Octavio Paz
No art is any good unless you can feel how it's put together. By and large it's the eye, the hand and if it's any… — Frank Stella
The holiday season promotes a heightened sense of community. It draws our chins up and helps us look above and over the limiting fence of… — Mary Anne Radmacher
How will decent people in the region ever believe in peace if Arab terrorists interpret every gesture of peace as a display of weakness and… — Tom Lantos
My eyes already touch the sunny hill. Going far ahead of the road I have begun. So we are grasped by what we cannot grasp;… — Rainer Maria Rilke
In its outward manifestation, meditation appears to involve either stopping, by parking the body in a stillness that suspends activity, or giving oneself over to… — Jon Kabat-Zinn
Gramophone and movies were merely the mechanization of speech and gesture. But the radio and TV were not just the electronification of speech and gesture… — Marshall McLuhan
You know, in the WikiLeaks cables, the Chinese discovered that Kevin Rudd was urging the Americans to keep the military option open against them. This… — Paul Keating
The retrospective glance is a relatively easy gesture for us to make. — George Crumb
All art is an intensely vulnerable gesture, and it is made with no small amounts of risk, and fear. So, I have plenty of sympathy… — Steven Erikson
Maybe it's because we as writers are alone so often, are so attuned to listening to the run of our own thoughts, that we find… — Les Standiford
Never ask a trader if he is profitable: you can easily see it in his gesture and gait. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I encourage the translators of my books to take as much license as they feel that they need. This is not quite the heroic gesture… — Michael Cunningham
While this debate today is a belated effort to inform the American people, it is nevertheless an empty gesture. It is time to admit our… — Raul Grijalva
When the music is physically demanding, I want to make sure that the effort involved is put across to the audience through physical gesture. — Leila Josefowicz
It's one of the most liberating things I experience in writing - letting yourself get rid of a gesture or character or plot point that… — Leslie Jamison
There is a gesture he has, a motion, that always reminds me of a great batter leaning into a hit. He has a way of… — Gene Lees
It's tricky when you're doing a recording, because the only weapon you have is your voice and the delivery of that voice. You don't have… — Joyce DiDonato
As soon as I suspect a fine effect is being achieved by accident I lose interest. I am not interested...in unskilled labor. ...The scientific actor… — Minnie Maddern Fiske
... most of all the actor will love the boys and girls, the men and women, who sit in the cheapest seats, in the very… — Minnie Maddern Fiske

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