Gesture Quotes

376 Gesture quotes by 304 unique authors

Thus drivers inching southward will see the phalanx of birds heading west as one spontaneous gesture. — Rae Armantrout
Everybody uses mime and gesture in real life, though we don't realize it. It's very useful as a performance technique, though it can be boring… — Anthony Daniels
Typographical design should perform optically what the speaker creates through voice and gesture of his thoughts. — El Lissitzky
You can't get at the thing itself, the real nature of the sitter, by stripping away the surface. You can only get beyond the surface… — Richard Avedon
I love words very much. I've always loved to talk, and I've always love words — the words that rest in your mouth, what words… — Martha Graham
Tasting is an act of pleasure and writing about that pleasure is an artistic gesture, but the only true work of art, in the end,… — Muriel Barbery
You persuade a man only insofar as you can talk his language by speech, gesture, tonality, order, image, attitude, idea, identifying your ways with his — Kenneth Burke
The erasure itself became the action. It seemed to suggest a moment in terms of how sad or pessimistic you can feel in a political… — Julie Mehretu
I don't think some athletes understand how big it is to be an athlete, what they can do with just a simple gesture of shaking… — Matt Kemp
It's still so rare for anyone to be personally acknowledged by a brand that the impact of such a simple, polite gesture on a customer's… — Gary Vaynerchuk
Putting forward your positive energy connects you back to basic human values which we all share. Good Deeds Day shows that no matter the size… — Shari Arison
We must love men more than things, and I admire and weep more for the soldiers than for the churches which were only the recording… — Marcel Proust
I am Retired Leisure. I am to be met with in trim gardens. I am already come to be known by my vacant face and… — Charles Lamb
How necessary it is to cultivate a spirit of joy. It is a psychological truth that the physical acts of reverence and devotion make one… — Dorothy Day
Morality's not practical. Morality's a gesture. A complicated gesture learnt from books. — Robert Bolt
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

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