Gestures Quotes - Page 7

Stillertook part in the Spanish Civil WarIt is not clear what impelled him to this military gesture. Probably many factors were combined--a rather romantic Communism, such as was common among bourgeois intellectuals at that time.

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.

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.

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

I can only gesture at what makes a story good.

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

There's a spectrum of possibilities. You can underline the bass, or not at all. You can create something that is well-anchored or that is floating and never arriving. You can make a melodic line dominant or barely visible. The conducting gesture is akin to painting or sculpture.

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

No exclusive,” I said aloud, watching Al for his opinion and seeing him shake his head and hold his hands out in a “bigger” gesture. He didn’t even know how large the offer was, and he thought I could get one bigger.

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

I don't make big grand gestures, generally.

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

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

You know a relationship has deteriorated past the point of salvage when one person detests another's gestures.

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

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

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

Gesture is not always action.

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.

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?

In the post-Warhol era a single gesture such as uncrossing one's legs will have more significance than all the pages in War and Peace.

I have seen these persons speak unthinkingly, not realizing that to speak is also to be. Word and gesture are man's thought. We should not speak without reason.

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.

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.

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