Gestures Quotes

552 Gestures quotes by 444 unique authors

We can't equate spending on veterans with spending on defense. Our strength is not just in the size of our defense budget, but in the… — Jennifer Granholm
As governor, when I visited our troops in Kuwait and Iraq, I served them Thanksgiving dinner. It was a small gesture compared to their sacrifice. — Jennifer Granholm
There's just no concept of layering a thick-sleeved sweater under a coat in L.A. A coat is more of a gesture than a necessity. You… — Sloane Crosley
I'm not attracted to naturalism, I'm not attracted to behavior, I'm attracted to dance. I'm attracted to gesture, I'm attracted to singing with your voice,… — Willem Dafoe
Have you ever heard a good joke? If you've ever heard someone just right, with the right pacing, then you're already on the way to… — Rita Dove
Let us lose none of their humble words, let us note their slightest gestures, and tell me, tell me that we will think of them… — Georges Duhamel
It has taken me years of struggle, hard work and research to learn to make one simple gesture, and I know enough about the art… — Isadora Duncan
When you are in a live-action movie, you have so many more options to express yourself. You can use your body and your gestures and… — Jesse Eisenberg
Postmodernism surely requires an even greater grasp of symbolism, as it's increasingly an art of gesture alone. — Andrew Eldritch
Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I don't make big grand gestures, generally. — Katherine Heigl
Actors cannot choose the manner in which they are born. Consequently, it is the one gesture in their lives completely devoid of self-consciousness. — Helen Hayes
It's a rather rude gesture, but at least it's clear what you mean. — Katharine Hepburn
Every day I wake up and I really try to pinch myself to take advantage of today and to use that freedom of gesture to… — Jeff Koons
Without the meditative background that is criticism, works become isolated gestures, historical accidents, soon forgotten. — Milan Kundera
What could be more convincing, moreover, than the gesture of laying one's cards face up on the table? — Jacques Lacan
There is no relationship between the gestures and what an orchestra will do. — James Levine
Great cataclysmic things can go by and neither the orchestra nor the conductor are under the delusion that whether they make this or that gesture… — James Levine
The Boomers have modeled a set of bad habits, and one grand gesture is not going to unwind all those bad habits. — Eric Liu
There is a time for risky love. There is a time for extravagant gestures. There is a time to pour out your affections on one… — Max Lucado
What sculptors do is represent the essence of gesture. What is important in mime is attitude. — Marcel Marceau
Small gestures can have a big impact. — Julianna Margulies
Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence. — Henri Matisse
I think it's important to do a good job and not to feel that you've got to make grand gestures, but just to get on… — Theresa May
Our cautious ancestors, when yawning, blocked the way to the entrance of evil spirits by putting their hands before their mouths. We find a reason… — George H. Mead

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