Gestures Quotes - Page 6

My method is to find a word with a gesture.

Turning your nose up at a genuine and sincere gesture of hospitality is no way to travel or to make friends around the world.

He found that it was easy to make a heroic gesture, but hard to abide by its results.

There are some gestures, of course, that you can only interpret one way, but no one has ever seen those kinds of gestures directed by Obama at me or by me at Obama, and I hope that never happens. Everything else is fantasy.

I can be whatever it takes to be a folksinger. Folk music to me, if we had to have a definition, is portable music. A lot of what I do is flash, gesture, athletics, but what it comes down to is getting across a melody that will help it stick to your ribs, and being able to take it from town to town.

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

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

The paintings are more about physicality and gesture than meditation. I'd compare it to playing scales on the Cello - each sound (pitch and intensity) depends on the manner in which you hold and apply the bow. The same goes for the gesture of applying paint to a surface.

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

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

A single smile from her could make his entire being burn. One touch from her hand and he was undone. It was terrifying to think of how much power this one person had over him. How one single gesture from her could affect him so profoundly. (Sin thinking about Kat)

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

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

Take the gesture, the action of writing. I have an almost obsessive relation to writing instruments. I often switch from one pen to another just for the pleasure of it. I try out new ones. I have far too many pens - I don't know what to do with all of them! And yet, as soon as I see a new one, I start craving it. I cannot keep myself from buying them.

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

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

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

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.

Politicians would only move beyond gestures once there was a critical mass of informed citizens.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

This changes nothing. It can't. You are my friend, my king,but that's.... All you can be." He nodded, but it was a gesture that indicated that he heard her, not that he agreed, which was abundantly clear as he said, "And you are my queen, my savior, my partner---and that's everything.