Gestures Quotes

552 quotes by 444 authors

Power immobilizes; it freezes with a single gesture-grandiose, terrible, theatrical, or finally, simply monotonous-the variety which is life. — Octavio Paz
You must have this charm to reach the pinnacle. It is made of everything and of nothing, the striving will, the look, the walk, the… — Sarah Bernhardt
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
Using a dog as a narrator has limitations and it has advantages. The limitations are that a dog cannot speak. A dog has no thumbs.… — Garth Stein
Nurturing is not complex. It's simply being tuned in to the thing or person before you and offering small gestures toward what it needs at… — Mary Anne Radmacher
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
When white-collar people get jobs, they sell not only their time and energy, but their personalities as well. They sell by the week, or month,… — C. Wright Mills
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
I try to do romantic gestures all the time. — Armie Hammer
I do think grand gestures are a hit and miss, especially for girls. — Carly Rae Jepsen

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