Gestures Quotes - Page 3

Just as the orator marks his good things by a dramatic pause, or by raising and lowering his voice, or by gesture, so the writer marks his epigrams with italics, setting the little gem, so to speak, like a jeweler.

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

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

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

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!

It is (often) the quiet gesture which carries the most significance - the one which suddenly directs the symphony.

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

To imagine a new world is to live it daily, each thought, each glance, each step, each gesture, killing and recreating, death always a step in advance. To spit on the past is not enough. To proclaim the future is not enough. One must act as if the past were dead and the future unrealizable.

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

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

The extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation.

Offer some gesture of kindness to yourself. Sometimes it's just a message, to say: "It's okay. You're going to be okay. We've been through this before." The intention is reassurance, that you are not alone and you can do this. It is the most powerful way to come out of what I call the "trance of unworthiness."

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.

When men attempt bold gestures, generally it's considered romantic. When women do it, it's often considered desperate or psycho.

F For Fake is a talentless concoction of unparalleled ineptitude... It would have been a more generous gesture to show a retrospective of old Welles films rather than remind everyone of how low his ability as a filmmaker has plummeted.

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.

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.

Sometimes I get the feeling that we're just a bunch of habits. The gestures we repeat over and over, they're just our need to be recognized. Without them, we'd be unidentifiable. We have to reinvent ourselves every minute.

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

Can I ask you a personal question"? Of all the rhetorical questions in the world, that is the one which irritates me most with its simultaneous gesture towards and denial of the trespass that is about to follow.

Small gestures can have a big impact.

The smallest gestures you do can sometimes carry the most weight.

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

Great cataclysmic things can go by and neither the orchestra nor the conductor are under the delusion that whether they make this or that gesture is going to be the deciding factor in how it comes out.