Gesture Quotes

376 Gesture quotes by 304 unique authors

I remember little things that break my heart. We were coming out of Michael's house one day, and he noticed my shoelaces were undone. He… — Kirk Douglas
Something doing every minute' may be a gesture of despair-or the height of a battle against boredom. — B.F. Skinner
We walked outside, Ben-Gurion accompanying us. Allon repeated his question, What is to be done with the Palestinian population?' Ben-Gurion waved his hand in a… — Yitzhak Rabin
By an epiphany he meant a sudden spiritual manifestation, whether in the vulgarity of speech or of gesture or memorable phrase of the mind itself.… — James Joyce
I can only gesture at what makes a story good. — Leonard Michaels
There is a language older by far and deeper than words. It is the language of bodies, of body on body, wind on snow, rain… — Derrick Jensen
I often need physical gesture to balance dialogue. If I write in public, every time I need to know what a character is doing with… — Chuck Palahniuk
Gratefulness is the inner gesture of giving meaning to our life by receiving life as gift. — David Steindl-Rast
So what if I'm smokin' weed onstage and doing what I gotta do? It's not me shooting nobody, stabbing nobody, killing nobody. It'sa peaceful gesture… — Snoop Dogg
Grief is neither a disorder nor a healing process; it is a sign of health itself, a whole and natural gesture of love. Nor must… — Gerald May
All it has experienced, tasted, suffered: The course of years, generations of animals, Oppression, recovery, friendship of sun and - Wind Will pour forth each… — Hermann Hesse
Look em in the eye. Make a gesture of inclusion, which he did all the time. And above all, have a chorus. So I learned… — Tom Paxton
I remember very clearly someone saying, 'Don't shake hands with the cactus,' and I thought, 'Well, why not? What could possibly go wrong?' Shaking hands… — Benedict Cumberbatch
I'm interested in the spirits of people. In the theatre, there's the acting part of acting - and I'm not saying that can't be great… — Ralph Fiennes
Success...Is all about being able to extend love to people...not in a big capital-letter sense but in the everyday; little by little, task by task,… — Ralph Fiennes
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

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