Gestures Quotes

They have assumed the names and gestures of their enemies, but have held on to their own, secret souls; and in this there is a resistance and an overcoming, a long outwaiting.

A story lives transformed by a gesture not made or a word not spoken

And always the animals from each trip you bring back a gaze a pose a gesture that points to the truest of humanity better than images of humanity itself

Be an active participant in your community and country. Every small gesture makes up the big gestures. Resist, rinse, repeat.

Never ask a trader if he is profitable: you can easily see it in his gesture and gait.

But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires.

The mask means to me: freshness of color, sumptuous decoration, wild unexpected gestures, very shrill expressions, exquisite turbulence.

Gentleness in the gait is what simplicity is in the dress. Violent gestures or quick movements inspire involuntary disrespect.

The retrospective glance is a relatively easy gesture for us to make.

The most romantic things are very small, kind gestures from people you love.

The haiku reproduces the designating gesture of the child pointing at whatever it is (the haiku shows no partiality for the subject), merely saying: that!

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 that time.

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

The extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation.

The Boomers have modeled a set of bad habits, and one grand gesture is not going to unwind all those bad habits.

Words of encouragement, a little respect, simple gestures of kindness from a teacher promote the perfect climate for studetns to study, learn, and grow.

I think men know to seduce women though words and conversation and nice gestures. That's much sexier than when a man uses muscle.

Few enjoy noisy overcrowded functions. But they are a gesture of goodwill on the part of host or hostess, and also on the part of guests who submit to them.

My parents had a pub and each Sunday there was an accordionist. They have told me that when I was in my cradle, I already was imitating the gestures of the musician.

If you're cast right you can actually just let yourself go because all your gestures will be right, all your intonations will be right because you just somewhere understand who this person is.

In the end, the gesture of painting becomes almost meditative, like a ritual.

(and from my thighs which shrug and pant a murdering rain leapingly reaches the upward singular deepest flower which she carries in a gesture of her hips)

Jack: Actually, I was found. Lady Bracknell: Found? Jack: Uh, yes, I was in... a handbag. Lady Bracknell: A handbag? Jack: Yes, it was... [makes gestures] Jack: an ordinary handbag.

Gestures and facial expressions do indeed communicate, as anyone can prove by turning off the sound on a television set and asking watchers to characterize the speakers from the picture alone.

They belonged to that vast group of human automata who go through life without neglecting to perform a single one of the gestures executed by the surrounding puppets.

Without the meditative background that is criticism, works become isolated gestures, historical accidents, soon forgotten.

It is impossible for a man to conceal himself. In every act, word or gesture he stands revealed as he is, and not as he would have himself appear to be. From the Universe, nothing is or an be hidden.

What would a Martian visitor think to see a human being laugh? It must look truly horrible: the sight of furious gestures, flailing limbs, and thorax heaving in frenzied contortions.

Small gestures can have a big impact.

I have a big problem with conductors who gesture a lot.

Excesses are essentially gestures. It is easy to be extremely cruel, magnanimous, humble or self-sacrificing when we see ourselves as actors in a performance.

As much preparation as I had made for the old man Salieri, gestures and so on, the fact is after sitting for hours, your movements are kind of slow.

Everybody in Hollywood loves symbolic gestures.

I think it's important to do a good job and not to feel that you've got to make grand gestures, but just to get on and deliver.

All the dancer's gestures are signs of things, and the dance called rational, because it aptly signifies and displays something over and above the pleasure of the senses.

Morality's not practical. Morality's a gesture. A complicated gesture learnt from books.

International relationships are preordained to be clumsy gestures based on imperfect knowledge.

Oh longing for places that were not Cherished enough in that fleeting hour How I long to make good from afar The forgotten gesture, the additional act.

...a nation could change its way of life, its history, its technology, its art, literature, and culture, but it would never have a real chance to change its gestures.

He was crying in there, making woman gestures.

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.

And I must bear What is ordained with patience, being aware Necessity doth front the universe With an invincible gesture.

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 of body.

The formal artistic gesture is already expressed in the act of taking the photograph.

If this gesture was the way of getting out of the penitentiary, Id do it.

All the gestures of children are graceful; the reign of distortion and unnatural attitudes commences with the introduction of the dancing master.

There's nothing more frustrating than seeing a conductor say, 'Play softer,' as they're waving their hands in huge gestures.

There is no relationship between the gestures and what an orchestra will do.

Conan Doyle is amazing in the way he has Watson describe Sherlock’s posture, mood swings, his hand gestures, and so forth in the novels.

Most full lives are filled with empty gestures.