Quotes and Sayings About Gestures
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Postmodernism surely requires an even greater grasp of symbolism, as it's increasingly an art of gesture alone.
-- Andrew Eldritch -
We have lost the art of public tenderness, these small gestures of wiping and washing; we have forgotten how abjectly the body welcomes a formal touch.
-- Anne Enright -
Turning your nose up at a genuine and sincere gesture of hospitality is no way to travel or to make friends around the world.
-- Anthony Bourdain -
Everybody uses mime and gesture in real life, though we don't realize it. It's very useful as a performance technique, though it can be boring to watch on its own.
-- Anthony DanielsSource : "A Q&A with Anthony Daniels (C3PO), touring with 'Star Wars: In Concert'". Interview with Tom Keogh, www.seattletimes.com. October 12, 2009.
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Language cannot describe the scene that followed; the shouts, oaths, frantic gestures, taunts, replies, and little fights; and therefore I shall not attempt it.
-- Augustus Baldwin LongstreetSource : Augustus Baldwin Longstreet (1992). “Georgia Scenes”, p.63, Rowman & Littlefield
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I remember very clearly someone saying, 'Don't shake hands with the cactus,' and I thought, 'Well, why not? What could possibly go wrong?' Shaking hands is a friendly gesture.
-- Benedict Cumberbatch -
It is hard for me to imagine that I felt good about behaving like that. I also remember that the smallest gesture of affection would bring a lump to my throat, whether it was directed at me or at someone else. Sometimes all it took was a scene in a movie. This juxtaposition of callousness and extreme sensitivity seemed suspicious even to me.
-- Bernhard Schlink -
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Outcomes rarely turn on grand gestures or the art of the deal, but on whether you've sent someone a thank-you note.
-- Bernie Brillstein -
Even in your smallest gestures, you express your sense of honor, if you have one.
-- Brian MortonSource : Brian Morton (2007). “Starting Out in the Evening”, p.73, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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I really like the structure of my body. It moves well, it looks good, it photographs well, it understands gesture and nuance.
-- Carrie Mae Weems -
I am Retired Leisure. I am to be met with in trim gardens. I am already come to be known by my vacant face and careless gesture, perambulating at no fixed pace nor with any settled purpose. I walk about; not to and from.
-- Charles Lamb -
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My method is to find a word with a gesture.
-- Christian Morgenstern -
Sometimes a slow gradual approach does more good than a large gesture.
-- Craig Newmark -
A journey is a gesture inscribed in space, it vanishes even as it's made. You go from one place to another place, and on to somewhere else again, and already behind you there is no trace that you were ever there.
-- Damon GalgutSource : "In a Strange Room: Three Journeys". Book by Damon Galgut, April 2010.
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There is only one way to receive transmission. When I tell you something, do it immediately, without the least wavering thought. That's it. Learn. Open your heart and act. Thought stops action. It perverts it into calculated gesture stripped of grace and efficiency.
-- Daniel Odier -
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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.
-- Derek WalcottSource : "Interview with Ed Hirsch". "Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, Eighth Series", 1986.
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A period film, where you, for example, where you have a traditional wardrobes, you are bound to act a certain way. But in a modern film, a lot of body gesture.
-- Donnie Yen -
somewhere i have never traveled, gladly beyond any experience, your eyes have their silence; in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me, or which i cannot touch because they are too near
-- e. e. cummings -
It is impossible to foretell the future with any degree of accuracy, that it is impossible to rehearse life. A fault in the scenery, a face in the audience, an interruption of the audience on to the stage, and all our carefully planned gesture mean nothing, or mean too much.
-- E. M. Forster -
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They belonged to that vast group of human automata who go through life without neglecting to perform a single one of the gestures executed by the surrounding puppets.
-- Edith Wharton -
Typographical design should perform optically what the speaker creates through voice and gesture of his thoughts.
-- El Lissitzky -
And I must bear What is ordained with patience, being aware Necessity doth front the universe With an invincible gesture.
-- Elizabeth Barrett Browning -
Listen- all that she was then, all that she is now, those gestures, everything I remember but won't or can't articulate anymore, the perfect words that are somehow made imperfect when used to describe her and all that should remain unsaid about her- it is all unsupported by reason. I know that. But that enigmatic calm that attaches itself to people in the presence of reason- it's something from which I haven't been able to take comfort, not reliably, not since her.
-- Elliot Perlman -
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In drawing, I don't erase. I believe the original gesture has to be the best.
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The Boomers have modeled a set of bad habits, and one grand gesture is not going to unwind all those bad habits.
-- Eric Liu -
Sometimes I feel that every word spoken and every gesture made merely serve to exacerbate misunderstandings. Then what I would really like is to escape into a great silence and impose that silence on everyone else.
-- Etty Hillesum -
Few enjoy noisy overcrowded functions. But they are a gesture of goodwill on the part of host or hostess, and also on the part of guests who submit to them.
-- Fannie Hurst -
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Doubt is what allows a single gesture to have a heart.
-- Fanny HoweSource : Fanny Howe (2003). “Gone: Poems”, p.25, Univ of California Press