Gestures Quotes

552 quotes by 444 authors

A brand is a living entity-and it is enriched or undermined cumulatively over time, the product of a thousand small gestures. — Michael Eisner
We read off the many signals that our companions' clothes transmit to us in every social encounter. In this way, clothing is as much a… — Desmond Morris
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
The theater, which is in no thing, but makes use of everything - gestures, sounds, words, screams, light, darkness - rediscovers itself at precisely the… — Antonin Artaud
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
This element of surprise or mystery - the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called - is of great importance in a plot.… — E. M. Forster
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
There are some gestures, of course, that you can only interpret one way. But no one has ever seen those kinds of gestures directed by… — Vladimir Putin
Gratefulness is the inner gesture of giving meaning to our life by receiving life as gift. — David Steindl-Rast
The protection of human rights to promote the dignity of the individual is too important a matter for symbolic gestures alone. It is only through… — Alexander Downer
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
We must open our eyes to admire God who hides and at the same time reveals himself in things and introduces us into the realms… — Pope John Paul II
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 had learned to have a perfect nausea for the theatre: the continual repetition of the same words and the same gestures, night after night,… — Isadora Duncan
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

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