Gestures Quotes

552 Gestures quotes by 444 unique authors

You can't get at the thing itself, the real nature of the sitter, by stripping away the surface. You can only get beyond the surface… — Richard Avedon
I love words very much. I've always loved to talk, and I've always love words — the words that rest in your mouth, what words… — Martha Graham
Tasting is an act of pleasure and writing about that pleasure is an artistic gesture, but the only true work of art, in the end,… — Muriel Barbery
You persuade a man only insofar as you can talk his language by speech, gesture, tonality, order, image, attitude, idea, identifying your ways with his — Kenneth Burke
The erasure itself became the action. It seemed to suggest a moment in terms of how sad or pessimistic you can feel in a political… — Julie Mehretu
I don't think some athletes understand how big it is to be an athlete, what they can do with just a simple gesture of shaking… — Matt Kemp
It's still so rare for anyone to be personally acknowledged by a brand that the impact of such a simple, polite gesture on a customer's… — Gary Vaynerchuk
Putting forward your positive energy connects you back to basic human values which we all share. Good Deeds Day shows that no matter the size… — Shari Arison
My readers, who may at first be apt to consider Quotation as downright pedantry, will be surprised when I assure them, that next to the… — James Boswell
Kindness manifests in a lot of ways, such as acts of compassion, helpfulness, empathy, forgiveness, and caring. These gestures kindle and ignite feelings of love. — Jude Bijou
The mask means to me: freshness of color, sumptuous decoration, wild unexpected gestures, very shrill expressions, exquisite turbulence. — James Ensor
I was hittin' him with body punches and I hurt him. Actually he was cryin' in there, makin' woman gestures like — Mike Tyson
He was crying in there, making woman gestures. — Mike Tyson
We must love men more than things, and I admire and weep more for the soldiers than for the churches which were only the recording… — Marcel Proust
I am Retired Leisure. I am to be met with in trim gardens. I am already come to be known by my vacant face and… — Charles Lamb
Women can be vivacious. We are allowed more varieties of facial expression and gestures. Men must be rocklike. — Gloria Steinem
How necessary it is to cultivate a spirit of joy. It is a psychological truth that the physical acts of reverence and devotion make one… — Dorothy Day
In the distance, the gestures of animals look human, the gestures of human beings bestial. — Malcolm De Chazal
It is believed by experienced doctors that the heat which oozes out of the hand, on being applied to the sick, is highly salutary. It… — Hippocrates
Morality's not practical. Morality's a gesture. A complicated gesture learnt from books. — Robert Bolt
Power immobilizes; it freezes with a single gesture-grandiose, terrible, theatrical, or finally, simply monotonous-the variety which is life. — Octavio Paz
You must have this charm to reach the pinnacle. It is made of everything and of nothing, the striving will, the look, the walk, the… — Sarah Bernhardt
No art is any good unless you can feel how it's put together. By and large it's the eye, the hand and if it's any… — Frank Stella
Using a dog as a narrator has limitations and it has advantages. The limitations are that a dog cannot speak. A dog has no thumbs.… — Garth Stein
Nurturing is not complex. It's simply being tuned in to the thing or person before you and offering small gestures toward what it needs at… — Mary Anne Radmacher

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