Accents Quote by Honore de Balzac

The gesture is the thing truly expressive of the individual - as we think so will we act.

— Martha Graham

“Exaggerating Your Gestures “Have you ever walked through a door and been jumped on by an over-enthusiastic dog with big paws who practically knocked…

— Susan C. Young

I thought of betrayal and how it came so easily - in a word, a glance, a gesture.

— Juliet Marillier

For one thing, I want gesture-any kind of gesture, all kinds of gesture-gentle or brutal, joyous or tragic; the gesture of space soaring, sinking,…

— Elaine de Kooning

How truly language must be regarded as a hindrance to thought, though the necessary instrument of it, we shall clearly perceive on remembering the…

— Herbert Spencer

Art knows no happier moment than the opportunity to show the symmetry of an extreme, during that moment of spheric harmony when the dissonance…

— Stefan Zweig

“Even as I wrote my note to Fern, for instance, expressing sentiments and regrets that were real, a part of me was noticing what…

— David Foster Wallace

The propriety of thoughts and words, which are the hidden beauties of a play, are but confusedly judged in the vehemence of action.

— John Dryden

If you string together a set of speeches expressive of character, and well finished in point and diction and thought, you will not produce…

— Aristotle

We come to recognize that playfulness, as a philosophical stance, can be very serious indeed; and moreover, that it possesses an unfailing capacity to…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Passion: Some things capture the eye but others capture the heart

— Ritu Ghatourey

“There is no sadness and no cruelty in that gaze; it is a gaze without adjectives, it is only, completely, a gaze which neither…

— Roland Barthes