Gestures Quotes

552 Gestures quotes by 444 unique authors

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… — Unknown Author
They are poets of gesture. — George Balanchine
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

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