Gestures Quote by Ian Mcewan Download Open image “A story lives transformed by a gesture not made or a word not spoken” — Ian Mcewan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Gestures Language Made Stories
“There it is; the light across the water. Your story. Mine. His. It has to be seen to be believed. And it has to… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Stories pass the experienced world back and forth between them as a metaphor, until it is worn out. Only then do we realize that… — M. John Harrison Copy Share Image
We live in story like a fish lives in water. We swim through words and images siphoning story through our minds the way a… — Christina Baldwin Copy Share Image
When you tell a story that you know is having an effect on the audience, that, for me, is the transforming thing. — John Tiffany Copy Share Image
But stories don't only speak; they are spoken to, by the circumstances under which they are written. — Tom Junod Copy Share Image
“There were some things gestures could communicate that words never could.” — SM Reine Copy Share Image
'No words - action' was the lesson my mother taught me: as artists, we have the privilege of holding a mirror to the world,… — Mira Nair Copy Share Image
The spoken word vanished with the wind. Likewise, the unrecorded life disappears as if it never existed. — Iris Chang Copy Share Image
With short stories, the story-teller must have a story to tell, not merely some sweet prose to take out for a walk — Herbert Gold Copy Share Image
“As you will see, we do not believe that artists have an obligation to strike up attitudes to the war. Indeed, they are wise… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
You could say that all novels are spy novels and all novelists are spy masters. — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
I've never had a moment's doubt. I love you. I believe in you completely. You are my dearest one. My reason for life. — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
“It is shaming sometimes, how the body will not, or cannot, lie about emotions.” — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
“While my friends struggled and calculated, I reached a solution by a set of floating steps that were partly visual, partly just a feeling… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
“Once, on a walk by a river- Eskdale in low reddish sunlight, with a dusting of snow- his daughter quoted to him an opening… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
“Perhaps it's one of those cases of a microcosm giving you the whole world. Like a spode dinner plate. Or a single cell. Or,… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
Who you get, and how it works out- there's so much luck involved, as well as the million branching consequences of your conscious choice… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
“On Chesil Beach he could have called out to Florence, he could have gone after her. He did not know, or would not have… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
It was always the view of my parents...that hot weather encouraged loose morals among young people. — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
I apologize for being obvious, but every time I watch the curtain come down on even a halfway decent production of a Shakespeare play… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
I would rather be physically disabled obviously than mentally. I would rather be paraplegic than nuts. And it is a terrifying prospect and actually… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
It takes a little more time to get into the role, but not very much more. In making a record you don't have the… — Maria Callas Copy Share Image
A fine lady; by which term I wish to express the result of that perfect education in taste and manner, down to every gesture,… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
Poems come from ordinary experiences and objects, I think. Out of memory - a dress I lent my daughter on her way back to… — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
A man has only a limited number of ways in which he can express strong emotions or violent passions. He uses the same gestures… — Tadeusz Borowski Copy Share Image
Let us ask... how things work at the level of on-going subjugation, at the level of those continuous and uninterrupted processes which subject our… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
When you play somebody, you pick up a lot of their gestures, his voice, the way he speaks, his body language. You don't often… — Robert Loggia Copy Share Image
Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Geric," she called. He turned back around. "What kind of flowers were they?" "I don't rightly know," he said. He made faltering gestures with… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
Never raise your hand menacingly, but only in a friendly gesture! — Sophie von La Roche Copy Share Image
This element of surprise or mystery - the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called - is of great importance in a… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
As much preparation as I had made for the old man Salieri, gestures and so on, the fact is after sitting for hours, your… — F. Murray Abraham Copy Share Image
