Gesture Quotes

376 Gesture quotes by 304 unique authors

My work is not so overtly about movement. My horses' gestures are really quite quiet, because real horses move so much better than I could… — Deborah Butterfield
All that remains is a fate whose outcome alone is fatal. Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty. A… — Albert Camus
How is the mind which functions on knowledge how is the brain which is recording all the time to end, to see the importance of… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a… — John Kenneth Galbraith
As governor, when I visited our troops in Kuwait and Iraq, I served them Thanksgiving dinner. It was a small gesture compared to their sacrifice. — Jennifer Granholm
There's just no concept of layering a thick-sleeved sweater under a coat in L.A. A coat is more of a gesture than a necessity. You… — Sloane Crosley
I'm not attracted to naturalism, I'm not attracted to behavior, I'm attracted to dance. I'm attracted to gesture, I'm attracted to singing with your voice,… — Willem Dafoe
Have you ever heard a good joke? If you've ever heard someone just right, with the right pacing, then you're already on the way to… — Rita Dove
It has taken me years of struggle, hard work and research to learn to make one simple gesture, and I know enough about the art… — Isadora Duncan
Postmodernism surely requires an even greater grasp of symbolism, as it's increasingly an art of gesture alone. — Andrew Eldritch
Actors cannot choose the manner in which they are born. Consequently, it is the one gesture in their lives completely devoid of self-consciousness. — Helen Hayes
It's a rather rude gesture, but at least it's clear what you mean. — Katharine Hepburn
Every day I wake up and I really try to pinch myself to take advantage of today and to use that freedom of gesture to… — Jeff Koons
What could be more convincing, moreover, than the gesture of laying one's cards face up on the table? — Jacques Lacan
Great cataclysmic things can go by and neither the orchestra nor the conductor are under the delusion that whether they make this or that gesture… — James Levine
The Boomers have modeled a set of bad habits, and one grand gesture is not going to unwind all those bad habits. — Eric Liu
What sculptors do is represent the essence of gesture. What is important in mime is attitude. — Marcel Marceau
Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence. — Henri Matisse
Our cautious ancestors, when yawning, blocked the way to the entrance of evil spirits by putting their hands before their mouths. We find a reason… — George H. Mead
A poem in form still has to have voice, gesture, a sense of discovery, a metaphoric connection, as any poetry does. — Robert Morgan
Every word, facial expression, gesture, or action on the part of a parent gives the child some message about self-worth. It is sad that so… — Virginia Satir
Women are better at reading body language everywhere in the world. As a matter of fact, it's associated with the female hormone estrogen. Women are… — Helen Fisher
It is, at the most basic level, a bundle of contradictions: a desire for power that strips you of all power. A gesture of strength… — Marya Hornbacher
As he took her hand she saw him look her over from head to foot, a gesture she recognized and that made her feel at… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
since feeling is first who pays any attention to the syntax of things will never wholly kiss you; wholly to be a fool while Spring… — E E Cummings

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