Gestures Quotes

552 Gestures quotes by 444 unique authors

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
When the music is physically demanding, I want to make sure that the effort involved is put across to the audience through physical gesture. — Leila Josefowicz
It's one of the most liberating things I experience in writing - letting yourself get rid of a gesture or character or plot point that… — Leslie Jamison
There is a gesture he has, a motion, that always reminds me of a great batter leaning into a hit. He has a way of… — Gene Lees
It's tricky when you're doing a recording, because the only weapon you have is your voice and the delivery of that voice. You don't have… — Joyce DiDonato
When you are at the bottom, you find beauty in such little things, and goodness in such little gestures. When I compare any struggle today… — Natalia Vodianova
Gestures and facial expressions do indeed communicate, as anyone can prove by turning off the sound on a television set and asking watchers to characterize… — Peter Farb
As soon as I suspect a fine effect is being achieved by accident I lose interest. I am not interested...in unskilled labor. ...The scientific actor… — Minnie Maddern Fiske
... most of all the actor will love the boys and girls, the men and women, who sit in the cheapest seats, in the very… — Minnie Maddern Fiske
Language cannot describe the scene that followed; the shouts, oaths, frantic gestures, taunts, replies, and little fights; and therefore I shall not attempt it. — Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
Television is likely to do more to revolutionize politics than sound broadcasting did. Political candidates may have to adopt new techniques to benefit from visual… — David Sarnoff

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