Gestures Quotes

552 Gestures quotes by 444 unique authors

Every man has a different idea of what's beautiful, and it's best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and let the mind… — William Faulkner
The job of the artist is to make a gesture and really show people what their potential is. It’s not about the object, and it’s… — Jeff Koons
Right after winning the Oscar, when everyone was going home, they let these little gold Oscary shapes flutter down from the ceiling. Leonardo DiCaprio came… — Helen Mirren
Correlation doesn’t imply causation, but it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively and gesture furtively while mouthing ‘look over there.’ — Randall Munroe
Tea ceremony is a way of worshipping the beautiful and the simple. All one's efforts are concentrated on trying to achieve perfection through the imperfect… — Paulo Coelho
The gesture of the amorous embrace seems to fulfill, for a time, the subject's dream of total union with the loved being: The longing for… — Roland Barthes
The whole purpose of spiritual direction is to penetrate beneath the surface of a man's life, to get behind the façade of conventional gestures and… — Thomas Merton
You wish, or rather, have decided, to remove a splinter from someone? Very well, but do not go after it with a stick instead of… — John Climacus
Sincerity is romantic. I don't think you need gestures. — Simon Cowell
I really like the structure of my body. It moves well, it looks good, it photographs well, it understands gesture and nuance. — Carrie Mae Weems
In song and dance, man forgets how to walk and speak and is on the way into flying into the air, dancing... his very gestures… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Humanity needs to see these gestures of peace and to hear words of hope and peace! — Pope Francis
Until we reflect basic kindness in everything we do, our political gestures will be fleeting and fragile. Simple kindness may be the most vital key… — Bo Lozoff
We too often forget that faith is a matter of questioning and struggle before it becomes one of certitude and peace. You have to doubt… — Thomas Merton
I am interested in a political art, that is to say an art of ambiguity, contradiction, uncompleted gestures and uncertain ending - an art (and… — William Kentridge
You're here to sweat. This program is live. There's about one thousand million people watching you. So, you remember - one wrong word, one foolish… — Paul Hogan
There is only one way to receive transmission. When I tell you something, do it immediately, without the least wavering thought. That's it. Learn. Open… — Daniel Odier
Because the Nazi venom worked its way even into our thoughts, every accurate thought was a conquest; because an all-powerful police sought to force us… — Jean-Paul Sartre
The Constitution requires that Congress treat similarly situated persons similarly, not that it engages in gestures of superficial equality. — William Rehnquist
Truly, more than removing the partition between vectors and values, we would have needed to talk about strengthening crisscrossed lacings: an intertwined kind of understanding… — Regis Debray
I think it is the fact that birds are two-legged, like us, which gives them something of our balance and gesture and makes them nearer… — Quentin Blake
Thus drivers inching southward will see the phalanx of birds heading west as one spontaneous gesture. — Rae Armantrout
Everybody uses mime and gesture in real life, though we don't realize it. It's very useful as a performance technique, though it can be boring… — Anthony Daniels
Outcomes rarely turn on grand gestures or the art of the deal, but on whether you've sent someone a thank-you note. — Bernie Brillstein
Typographical design should perform optically what the speaker creates through voice and gesture of his thoughts. — El Lissitzky

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