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Gesture is not always action. -- Jay Maisel
Gesture will survive whatever kind of light you have. Gesture can triumph over anything because of its narrative content. -- Jay Maisel
When surprised and excited and innocent Gus emerged from Grand Gesture Metaphorically Inclined Augustus, I literally could not resist. -- John Green
But I also know that sometimes Adam needs to do things the dramatic way. He is fond of the Grand Gesture -- Gayle Forman
Nothing in a portrait is a matter of indifference. Gesture, grimace, clothing, decor even - all must combine to realize a character. -- Charles Baudelaire
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. -- Nick Morgan
You should draw not what the thing looks like, not even what it is, but what it is doing... Gesture has no precise edges, no forms. The forms are in the act of changing. Gesture is movement in space. -- Kimon Nicolaides
You have to teach yourself to act but Michael Chekhov will give you the necessary tools - and for me, Psychological Gesture and Centers are extremely valuable They work like a charm. I've used them all along and still do. -- Clint Eastwood
If you want a symbolic gesture, don't burn the flag; wash it. -- Norman Thomas
The retrospective glance is a relatively easy gesture for us to make. -- George Crumb
Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence. -- Henri Matisse
It's a rather rude gesture, but at least it's clear what you mean. -- Katharine Hepburn
Each single gesture of art must be daring. One must not be concerned with the side-effects. -- Toni Servillo
These hands which stretch out, implore, beg, then rise to the head in a gesture of calamity. -- Frederick Leboyer
Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is. -- Malcolm Arnold
The smallest gesture can mean to much to those who may need a little lift in their lives. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
What could be more convincing, moreover, than the gesture of laying one's cards face up on the table? -- Jacques Lacan
The law courts must appear as a threatening gesture toward secret vice. The bank must declare: here your money is secure and well looked after by honest people. -- Adolf Loos
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
We see that every external motion, act, gesture, whether voluntary or mechanical, organic or mental, is produced and preceded by internal feeling or emotion, will or volition, and thought or mind. -- H. P. Blavatsky
The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
Every word, facial expression, gesture, or action on the part of a parent gives the child some message about self-worth. It is sad that so many parents don't realize what messages they are sending. -- Virginia Satir
The only reason I wanted 'Making Toast' as the title is that it is a simple gesture of moving on. Every morning there's the bread and you make the toast and you start the day. -- Roger Rosenblatt
Our cautious ancestors, when yawning, blocked the way to the entrance of evil spirits by putting their hands before their mouths. We find a reason for the gesture in the delicacy of manner which forbids an indecent exposure. -- George H. Mead
Women are better at reading body language everywhere in the world. As a matter of fact, it's associated with the female hormone estrogen. Women are better at figuring out of tone of voice, reading your face and posture and gesture. -- Helen Fisher
You're here to sweat. This program is live. There's about one thousand million people watching you. So, you remember - one wrong word, one foolish gesture and your whole career could go down in flames. Hold that thought and have a nice night. -- Paul Hogan
It has taken me years of struggle, hard work and research to learn to make one simple gesture, and I know enough about the art of writing to realize that it would take as many years of concentrated effort to write one simple, beautiful sentence. -- Isadora Duncan
The first several years of my life were used to upload incredible amounts of fear, and I just became afraid of everything. I was afraid of my parents, afraid of my classmates, afraid of the streets of Washington, D.C. I would flinch at every gesture. -- Henry Rollins
I have the ability to sing with emotion and feeling, but if you say I sound like Billie Holiday, that's cool. Let's look at who Billie was: she was this person, this singer, this beautiful diva who could move the audience with the slightest gesture of her hand. -- Erykah Badu
We need to rediscover the essence of the meaning of 'the use.' Architecture is, above all, here for a better living. Every gesture, every shape must be justified by various reasons that would reinforce their reason to be, their use, and will give more sense to their beauty. -- Christian de Portzamparc
Putting forward your positive energy connects you back to basic human values which we all share. Good Deeds Day shows that no matter the size of the gesture, a smile that brightens someone else's day or volunteering in your community, we can all take active part in making a difference. -- Shari Arison
I wish I were shyly, quietly intriguing, like Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, like someone French and fashionable who knows how to twirl her ladylike locks just so and walk adroitly on kitten heels, who is all gesture and whisper - but I am unfortunately forward and forthright: When I am interested in a man, he absolutely knows it. -- Elizabeth Wurtzel
I was born deaf. I was raised in a hearing world and in a deaf world at the same time. I can't say that I like one better than I like the other. I like them both. I speak pretty well; I gesture. If I don't understand something, you know, pen and paper, texting. I use it all. -- Sean Berdy
Whether I'm doing a routine where I want to move people, or if I want to feel moved myself, I definitely tap into those moments where it's not just dancing or movement. It might just be a hand gesture or just a slow look, or even just the way you slightly tip your head forward. These subtleties speak volumes. -- Derek Hough
King of grand gesture. -- Rainbow Rowell
They are poets of gesture. -- George Balanchine
Every gesture is a revolutionary act. -- Fernando Pessoa
Living in memories is an empty gesture. -- Rajneesh
Against the charitable gesture there is no defence. -- Samuel Beckett
The extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation. -- Annie Dillard
No gesture is too small when done with gratitude. -- Oprah Winfrey
It may be meaningless, but at least it's a gesture. -- Dave Barry
I can only gesture at what makes a story good. -- Leonard Michaels
My method is to find a word with a gesture. -- Christian Morgenstern
Doubt is what allows a single gesture to have a heart. -- Fanny Howe
I have a big problem with conductors who gesture a lot. -- James Levine
All my life I have struggled to make one authentic gesture.... -- Isadora Duncan
Apology is the most courageous gesture we can make to ourselves. -- John Kador
There is no gesture more devastating than the back turning away. -- Rachel Simmons
Never raise your hand menacingly, but only in a friendly gesture! -- Sophie von La Roche
Sometimes a slow gradual approach does more good than a large gesture. -- Craig Newmark
Morality's not practical. Morality's a gesture. A complicated gesture learnt from books. -- Robert Bolt
Smiling half-reluctance seems to promise more than the frankest gesture of desire. -- Mason Cooley
A kind gesture can reach a wound that only compassion can heal. -- Steve Maraboli
If you want a symbolic gesture, don't burn the flag, wash it. -- Norman Thomas
Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith. -- Franz Kafka
In the end, the gesture of painting becomes almost meditative, like a ritual. -- Shahzia Sikander
how magnanimous was a gesture if one were constantly aware of its magnanimity? -- Laura Lippman
Remember that a gesture of friendship, no matter how small, is always appreciated. -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Being shown a gesture of love is like being offered a portion of God. -- Deepak Chopra
The formal artistic gesture is already expressed in the act of taking the photograph. -- Luigi Ghirri
Not one word, not one gesture of yours shall I, could I, ever forget... -- Leo Tolstoy
Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice. -- Nelson Mandela
Why do people always gesture with their hands when they talk on the phone? -- Jonathan Carroll
The two most powerful things in existence: a kind word and a thoughtful gesture. -- Kenneth Langone
A story lives transformed by a gesture not made or a word not spoken -- Ian Mcewan
A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude. -- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Snow makes cities innocent again, reveals the frailty of the human gesture against the void. -- Glen Duncan
The most shocking act, closely examined, is just a louder version of some habitual gesture. -- Susan Choi
We don't experience light, color, and gesture in a vacuum. We experience it in contexts. -- Jay Maisel
It was quite elementary,' returned the detective with a languid gesture of one hand. -- Anthony Horowitz
And that is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment at a time. -- Libba Bray
If this gesture was the way of getting out of the penitentiary, Id do it. -- Lee J. Cobb
In drawing, I don't erase. I believe the original gesture has to be the best. -- Ellsworth Kelly
What sculptors do is represent the essence of gesture. What is important in mime is attitude. -- Marcel Marceau
Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye, in every gesture dignity and love. -- John Milton
It's disgusting. On trains, the number of those people doing that strange masturbation-like gesture is multiplying. -- Hayao Miyazaki
Gratefulness is the inner gesture of giving meaning to our life by receiving life as gift. -- David Steindl-Rast
The nondual universe of One Taste arises as a spontaneous gesture of your own true nature. -- Ken Wilber
Thus drivers inching southward will see the phalanx of birds heading west as one spontaneous gesture. -- Rae Armantrout
Typographical design should perform optically what the speaker creates through voice and gesture of his thoughts. -- El Lissitzky
Is a gesture of charity genuine or is it a kind of deep moral tax write-off? -- Padgett Powell
Something doing every minute' may be a gesture of despair-or the height of a battle against boredom. -- B. F. Skinner
Postmodernism surely requires an even greater grasp of symbolism, as it's increasingly an art of gesture alone. -- Andrew Eldritch
Peace is present in every breath we take.Peace is present in every loving gesture we make. -- Debasish Mridha
At the simplicity of the gesture, he felt a pang: the raw nerve of his loneliness exposed. -- Maile Meloy
He sat by her, watching every gesture she made, as if he would paint her portrait afterward. -- Tanith Lee
I believe that a small action or a subtle gesture in life can change many, many things. -- Gabriel Orozco
If language was given to men to conceal their thoughts, then gesture's purpose was to disclose them. -- John Napier
Power immobilizes; it freezes with a single gesture-grandiose, terrible, theatrical, or finally, simply monotonous-the variety which is life. -- Octavio Paz
For the theatre one needs long arms... an artiste with short arms can never make a fine gesture. -- Sarah Bernhardt
He found that it was easy to make a heroic gesture, but hard to abide by its results. -- W. Somerset Maugham
Never ask a trader if he is profitable: you can easily see it in his gesture and gait. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The gesture is the thing truly expressive of the individual - as we think so will we act. -- Martha Graham
I thought of betrayal and how it came so easily - in a word, a glance, a gesture. -- Juliet Marillier
Every important cultural gesture comes down to a morality, a model for human behavior concentrated into a gesture. -- Hermann Hesse
I was a Shakespearean actor, I had preconceived ideas, line readings - everything was a gesture, everything was conscious. -- Dennis Hopper
It is (often) the quiet gesture which carries the most significance - the one which suddenly directs the symphony. -- Mary Anne Radmacher
But it seems to me that once you begin a gesture it's fatal not to go through with it. -- John Updike
Sure, sis!' Then he raised his hands in a stop everything gesture. 'I feel a haiku coming on. -- Rick Riordan
I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates. -- Oleg Cassini
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I like to use research to enlarge the poem. And sometimes a rhetorical or syntactical gesture stitches the poem along. -- Alison Hawthorne Deming
You were at the age where you could fall in love with a girl over an expression, over a gesture -- Junot Diaz
And I must bear What is ordained with patience, being aware Necessity doth front the universe With an invincible gesture. -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Every gesture is a gesture from the blood, every expression a symbolic utterance... Everything is of the blood, of the senses. -- Henry Williamson
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A poem in form still has to have voice, gesture, a sense of discovery, a metaphoric connection, as any poetry does. -- Robert Morgan
But in love each moment is magnified, and every gesture, word and syllable is examined like a speech by the President. -- Hanif Kureishi
A writer will divine a metaphor from a pattern on a dress, or a gesture, because sunsets have been done before. -- Brandi L. Bates
I am the most spontaneous speaker in the world because every word, every gesture, and every retort has been carefully rehearsed. -- George Bernard Shaw
Following Christ means following him through life, following him in every word and gesture, following him out of one clime into another. -- George Whitefield
The touched heart madly stirs,your laughter is water hurrying over pebbles - every gesture is a proclamation,every sound is speech... -- Sappho
The Boomers have modeled a set of bad habits, and one grand gesture is not going to unwind all those bad habits. -- Eric Liu
I don't quite comprehend why you'd force someone to bow when the purpose of the gesture is to display allegiance and respect. -- Sarah J. Maas
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
Tucker strokes my hair. There's something so tender about the gesture. It might as well have been him whispering I love you. -- Cynthia Hand
That's a gesture of endearment in some cultures. Some hug, some kiss, some set each other on fire in small patches of woodland -- Jonathan Stroud
We will glorify war-the world's only hygiene, milliterism, patriotism , the destructive gesture of freedom-bringers, beautiful ideas worth dying for, and scorn for woman -- Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
Actors cannot choose the manner in which they are born. Consequently, it is the one gesture in their lives completely devoid of self-consciousness. -- Helen Hayes

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