Gestures Quotes

Every important cultural gesture comes down to a morality, a model for human behavior concentrated into a gesture.

Sometimes, one gesture comprises an entire drama, the accent of one word ruins an entire existence, and the indifference of one glance kills the happiest passion.

Often, organizations need bold, grand gestures to galvanize people towards a new mission or refocus their attention.

Politicians do nothing but ask of us, during every expiration of a legal statute, "a gesture of trust." But here trust is not enough; what's needed is an act of faith.

It was so good to be held. If only their relationship could be distilled into simple, wordless gestures of comfort. Why had humans ever learned to talk?

V?" Butch said. "Don't leave, okay?" "Never." V brushed Butch's hair back with a gesture so tender it was out of place coming from a male.

Gesture is not always action.

What the people call eloquence is the facility some persons have of speaking alone and for a long time, aided by extravagant gestures, a loud voice, and powerful lungs.

We were awash in tiny attentions. Small gestures, words, empathies thought to be extinct came to life... We discovered the color of each other's eyes.

The gestures and the swagger and the attitude of black men is imitated everywhere in American culture, but people still find black men intolerable.

When surprised and excited and innocent Gus emerged from Grand Gesture Metaphorically Inclined Augustus, I literally could not resist.

Apology is the most courageous gesture we can make to ourselves.

Art is just a series of natural gestures. For God's sake, don't try to be artistic - all wild animals walk the same way.

But it seems to me that once you begin a gesture it's fatal not to go through with it.

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.

we must be precise with love, its language and its gestures. If it is to save us, we must look at it as clearly as we should learn to look at death

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

I don't make big grand gestures, generally.

The nondual universe of One Taste arises as a spontaneous gesture of your own true nature.

how magnanimous was a gesture if one were constantly aware of its magnanimity?

In silent films, quite complex plots are built around action, setting, and the actors gestures and facial expressions, with a very few storyboards to nail down specific plot points.

When the music is physically demanding, I want to make sure that the effort involved is put across to the audience through physical gesture.

I can only gesture at what makes a story good.

All the bystanders at an event worthy of note adopt various gestures of admiration when contemplating the occurrence.

Dating is about grand romantic gestures that mean little over the long term. Marriage is about small acts of kindness that bond you over a lifetime.

He was not as soft as when I'd first met him, not as young, but the angles of his face, his quick gestures, the way he sucked in his lower lip to think before going on - I was in love with all of it.

His movements were so graceful that I wondered if he had been a dancer, but his words betrayed to me that his fluid gestures were those of a trained killer.

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, is another person's feast.

Gestures come first! Before we're consciously aware of our thoughts, we start to gesture. Pay attention to your gestures, and others', and you can become a more powerful communicator.

No matter how you decide to spend a little more time on your gestures of giving, the point is just quite simply that you do.

In really fancy restaurants they never point to the bathroom, they just gesture toward the bathroom or they'll lead you to the bathroom. The fancier the restaurant, the less pointing there is.

Is a gesture of charity genuine or is it a kind of deep moral tax write-off?

Major brands don't know what to do with happy customers. They make it hard for customers to say thanks and way too often companies don't celebrate and embrace customers' positive gestures.

Power immobilizes; it freezes with a single gesture-grandiose, terrible, theatrical, or finally, simply monotonous-the variety which is life.

Thus drivers inching southward will see the phalanx of birds heading west as one spontaneous gesture.

Never mind a world That can't see past brutality Answers are getting the gas Live gestures Have constantly been used As weapons

Sure, sis!' Then he raised his hands in a stop everything gesture. 'I feel a haiku coming on.

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 get that opportunity.

Take a favorite trick of yours and write a 'gestures script' how could you improve clarity [using gestures].

Through the history of our nation, Americans have always extended their hands in gestures of assistance.

I am surprisingly optimistic, though lately that's been hard to maintain. Art and slow, small, close gestures help remind me of my optimism.

That's how myths are born. Out of our carelessness, out of our tattered nerves, out of jokes that go wrong and flashy gestures.

It was one of the late Conservative Government's gestures towards agriculture -- graceful as a kiss, and of about as much use.

Sincerity is romantic. I don't think you need gestures.

Never raise your hand menacingly, but only in a friendly gesture!

Believe it or not, friendships are difficult to write in fiction. They can easily come across as forced, particularly if they involve too much explication and too many overt gestures of affection.

The gesture with which one generation guards the next is the movement, and the only time we see it clearly, of life itself.

The most shocking act, closely examined, is just a louder version of some habitual gesture.

I know the microphones and cameras are on me. They're looking at my gestures and taking it and running with it because of things that have happened in the past. It's very unfair.

People can make symbolic gestures but doesn't mean their life changes. One philanthropic moment doesn't make a life of renewal; of change.