Gesture Quotes

376 Gesture quotes by 304 unique authors

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
The extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation. — Annie Dillard
The ideal woman which is in every man's mind is evoked by a word or phrase or the shape of her wrist, her hand. The… — William Faulkner
Would I describe a preacher, I would express him simple, grave, sincere; In doctrine uncorrupt; in language plain, And plain in manner; decent, solemn, chaste,… — William Cowper
Oh longing for places that were not Cherished enough in that fleeting hour How I long to make good from afar The forgotten gesture, the… — Rainer Maria Rilke
They, who passed away long ago, still exist in us, as predisposition, as burden upon our fate, as murmuring blood, and as gesture that rises… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Expression is not a matter of passion mirrored on the human face or revealed by a violent gesture. When I paint a picture, its every… — Henri Matisse
Nothing in a portrait is a matter of indifference. Gesture, grimace, clothing, decor even - all must combine to realize a character. — Charles Baudelaire
The painting is always conceived as the linear record of a rhythmic gesture: it is a graph of a dance executed by the hand. Not… — Roger Fry
Whenever I go to bars in London, people send me over Cosmopolitans. It's a very sweet gesture, but I don't like them, so they just… — Kim Cattrall
So when I hear a guy after a game-winning home run say or gesture that God was on his side, I think to myself, 'He's… — Bobby Knight
When I make my drawings... the path traced by my pencil on the sheet of paper is, to some extent, analogous to the gesture of… — Alberto Giacometti
The sculptor must search with passionate intensity for the underlying principle of the organisation of mass and tension - the meaning of gesture and the… — Barbara Hepworth
You should draw not what the thing looks like, not even what it is, but what it is doing... Gesture has no precise edges, no… — Kimon Nicolaides
While you are still beautiful and life still woos, it is such a fine gesture of disdainful pride to jilt it. — Eugene O'Neill
The real relatedness between two people is experienced in the small tasks they do together: the quiet conversation when the day's upheavels are at rest,… — Robert A. Johnson

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