Gestures Quotes

552 quotes by 444 authors

The only reason I wanted 'Making Toast' as the title is that it is a simple gesture of moving on. Every morning there's the bread… — Roger Rosenblatt
I learned to write because I am one of those people who somehow cannot manage the common communications of smiles and gestures, but must use… — Bill James
If in this supreme test, in face of which the braggart falls silent and every heroic gesture is paralyzed, a man walks straight up to… — Josef Pieper
Every gesture is a gesture from the blood, every expression a symbolic utterance... Everything is of the blood, of the senses. — Henry Williamson
Sometimes, all it takes is one gesture, one word, to change the course of someone's life. Even if you know it won't last forever. — Jean-Claude Izzo
I read a lot of books. Here are the books I'm using for my 9/11 project. [Wright gestures to three six-foot-long shelves of books.] As… — Lawrence Wright
Sometimes, in that darkness, there is a single act of love, some selfless gesture, an aspiration, and we see that it's not been all waste,… — John L'Heureux
Gay is a subculture, a slur, a set of gestures, a slang, a look, a posture, a parade, a rainbow flag, a film genre, a… — Jack Donovan
Vocal music is an attempt to take the whole human being and project it into space. It is the ultimate gesture of getting out of… — Peter Sellers
Politicians would only move beyond gestures once there was a critical mass of informed citizens. — Paul Collier
While I was the mayor of BogotÃ¡, I received occasional death threats. Therefore, I had to use a bullet-proof vest. I made a hole right… — Antanas Mockus
Itâ€™s disgusting. On trains, the number of those people doing that strange masturbation-like gesture is multiplying. — Hayao Miyazaki
John Gottman is our leading explorer of the inner world of relationships. In The Relationship Cure, he has found gold once again. This book shows… — William J Doherty
I don't quite comprehend why you'd force someone to bow when the purpose of the gesture is to display allegiance and respect. — Sarah J. Maas
As a reader, youâ€™re often inside one or more character heads, so you know what theyâ€™re feeling, even if they canâ€™t exactly say it, or… — Will Schwalbe
The way a source strains toward the light, toward the air. Its laboring work, its effort, its black passageways like despair. Thatâ€™s the way a… — Anna Kamienska
Generous gestures yield the most when that isn't their purpose. — Malcolm Forbes
The haiku reproduces the designating gesture of the child pointing at whatever it is (the haiku shows no partiality for the subject), merely saying: that! — Roland Barthes
In drawing, I don't erase. I believe the original gesture has to be the best. — Ellsworth Kelly
How easily we ignore or forget the small kindnesses and considerations in life which are really the only everyday magic we witness on a regular… — Jonathan Carroll

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