Gestures Quotes

552 quotes by 450 authors

We should think of a photographer as a Samurai who makes rituals, moves and gestures in order to develop his techniques and his instinct. — Alex Majoli
My parents had a pub and each Sunday there was an accordionist. They have told me that when I was in my cradle, I already… — Toots Thielemans
Is courage just the awareness that gestures, journeys, lives have intrinsic shape, and must, one way or another, be completed? — Peter Behrens
Southerners take no issue with absurdity. We donâ€™t pretend the world is logical or fair. If there were a signature regional gesture it would be… — Allison Glock
A compelling and important story of First Word War Scotland, a time when women redefined the word hope as the world was losing its innocence.… — Ami McKay
The big moment came when it was decided to paint...Just To Paint. The gesture on the canvas was a gesture of liberation, from Value- political,… — Harold Rosenberg
Each thing organizes the space around it, rebuffing or sidling up against other things; each thing calls, gestures, beckons to other beings or battles them… — David Abram
Touch is a reciprocal action, a gesture of exchange with the world. To make an impression is also to receive one, and the soles of… — Robert Macfarlane
Every kingdom work, whether publicly performed or privately endeavored, partakes of the kingdom's imperishable character. Every honest intention, every stumbling word of witness, every resistance… — Randy Alcorn
I never had come up with a really profound and strong gesture - nothing like Julia Butterfly's. So I figured the best thing I could… — Daryl Hannah
Be sincere. Be simple in words, manners, and gestures. Amuse as well as instruct. If you can make a man laugh, you can make him… — Al Smith
When we resent someone in some way we need to "be on the alert" that even innocent gestures on their part can become suspect to… — Cindy Wright
Never mind a world That can't see past brutality Answers are getting the gas Live gestures Have constantly been used As weapons — Ric Ocasek
Sometimes a slow gradual approach does more good than a large gesture. — Craig Newmark
OPERA, n. A play representing life in another world, whose inhabitants have no speech but song, no motions but gestures and no postures but attitudes. — Ambrose Bierce
The nondual universe of One Taste arises as a spontaneous gesture of your own true nature. — Ken Wilber
Call it my little gesture toward social conscience, but I like to think I'm teaching a certain number of people to read. Now that sounds… — David Eddings
Shape without form, shade without color, Paralyzed force, gesture without motion; Those who have crossed With direct eyes, to death's other Kingdom Remember us-if at… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
The words, gestures, and threats of our officers were thrown away upon men who had lost all presence of mind and only longed for absence… — Andrew Potter
They are poets of gesture. — George Balanchine

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