Gestures Quotes

Don't underestimate your own strength. To persevere. To make it through the most difficult of times. And, JUST as importantly, don't underestimate your ability to help someone ELSE during THEIR most difficult times. Sometimes all it takes is a kind word, or gesture, to help someone make it through their day.

Typographical design should perform optically what the speaker creates through voice and gesture of his thoughts.

What could be more convincing, moreover, than the gesture of laying one's cards face up on the table?

In drawing, I don't erase. I believe the original gesture has to be the best.

Gratefulness is the inner gesture of giving meaning to our life by receiving life as gift.

Perfume is a form of writing, an ink, a choice made in the first person, the dot on the i, a weapon, a courteous gesture, part of the instant, a consequence.

I come from a place that likes grandeur; it likes large gestures; it is not inhibited by flourish; it is a rhetorical society; it is a society of physical performance; it is a society of style.

Peace is only possible when one of the warring sides takes the first step, the hazardous initiative, the risk of opening up dialogue, and decides to make the gesture that will lead not only to an armistice but to peace.

Outcomes rarely turn on grand gestures or the art of the deal, but on whether you've sent someone a thank-you note.

She believed not in divine salvation but in the proposition that we poor mortals are fully capable of saving ourselves, if conditions and inclinations are right, and the evidence of this potential is found in the smallest of gestures, like the uncertain resting of a large hand on a bony shoulder.

How much truth is contained in something can be best determined by making it thoroughly laughable and then watching to see how much joking around it can take. For truth is a matter that can withstand mockery, that is freshened by any ironic gesture directed at it. Whatever cannot withstand satire is false.

If you want a symbolic gesture, don't burn the flag, wash it.

Is courage just the awareness that gestures, journeys, lives have intrinsic shape, and must, one way or another, be completed?

London goes beyond any boundary or convention.It contains every wish or word ever spoken, every action or gesture ever made, every harsh or noble statement ever expressed. It is illimitable. It is Infinite London.

A brand is a living entity-and it is enriched or undermined cumulatively over time, the product of a thousand small gestures.

Let every fart count as a peal of thunder for liberty. Let every fart remind the nation of how much it has let pass out of its control. It is a small gesture, but one that can be very effective - especially in a large crowd. So fart, and if you must, fart often. But always fart without apology. Fart for freedom, fart for liberty - and fart proudly.

The greater the will, the greater the flow of energy.

Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.

It's a rather rude gesture, but at least it's clear what you mean.

Postmodernism surely requires an even greater grasp of symbolism, as it's increasingly an art of gesture alone.

Knowledge is the reward of action. For it is by doing things that one becomes transformed. Executing a symbolical gesture, actually living through, to the very limit, a particular role, one comes to realize the truth inherent in the role. Suffering its consequences, one fathoms and exhausts its contents.

It’s disgusting. On trains, the number of those people doing that strange masturbation-like gesture is multiplying.

Language cannot describe the scene that followed; the shouts, oaths, frantic gestures, taunts, replies, and little fights; and therefore I shall not attempt it.

They are poets of gesture.

Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.