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Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words. -- Francois Rabelais
All the gestures of children are graceful; the reign of distortion and unnatural attitudes commences with the introduction of the dancing master. -- Joshua Reynolds
As much preparation as I had made for the old man Salieri, gestures and so on, the fact is after sitting for hours, your movements are kind of slow. -- F. Murray Abraham
There is a time for risky love. There is a time for extravagant gestures. There is a time to pour out your affections on one you love. And when the time comes - seize it, don't miss it. -- Max Lucado
Gestures are all that I have; sometimes they must be grand in nature. -- Garth Stein
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
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. -- Peter Farb
Small gestures can have a big impact. -- Julianna Margulies
Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men. -- Theodor Adorno
I have a big problem with conductors who gesture a lot. -- James Levine
Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence. -- Henri Matisse
Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The retrospective glance is a relatively easy gesture for us to make. -- George Crumb
If you want a symbolic gesture, don't burn the flag, wash it. -- Norman Thomas
I do think grand gestures are a hit and miss, especially for girls. -- Carly Rae Jepsen
Why do people always gesture with their hands when they talk on the phone? -- Jonathan Carroll
I really love to make sweeping historical gestures that are like little illustrations of novels. -- Kara Walker
What sculptors do is represent the essence of gesture. What is important in mime is attitude. -- Marcel Marceau
I believe that a small action or a subtle gesture in life can change many, many things. -- Gabriel Orozco
Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is. -- Malcolm Arnold
When men attempt bold gestures, generally it's considered romantic. When women do it, it's often considered desperate or psycho. -- Sarah Jessica Parker
I can't do the same thing every night, the same gestures... it's like putting on dirty panties every day. -- Brigitte Bardot
There's nothing more frustrating than seeing a conductor say, 'Play softer,' as they're waving their hands in huge gestures. -- Joshua Bell
Every gesture is a gesture from the blood, every expression a symbolic utterance... Everything is of the blood, of the senses. -- Henry Williamson
I think men know to seduce women though words and conversation and nice gestures. That's much sexier than when a man uses muscle. -- Donatella Versace
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 Longstreet
I was worried in the '80s that the best abstract painting had become obsessed with materiality, and painterly gestures and materiality were up against the wall -- Frank Stella
How will decent people in the region ever believe in peace if Arab terrorists interpret every gesture of peace as a display of weakness and then act accordingly? -- Tom Lantos
For the theatre one needs long arms; it is better to have them too long than too short. An artiste with short arms can never, never make a fine gesture. -- Roland Barthes
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
Things can change only through strong personalities. I am not very good at supporting ignorance and mediocrity, so maybe this leads to arrogant gestures and arrogant responses. So, nobody's perfect. -- Edi Rama
Remembering that man is indeed the microcosm, the universe in miniature, the Divine Dance of the future should be able to convey with its slightest gestures some significance of the universe -- Ruth St. Denis
Be simple in words, manners, and gestures. Amuse as well as instruct. If you can make a man laugh, you can make him think and make him like and believe you. -- Al Smith
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. -- Susan Sullivan
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
I've got a quick mouth, and I set my boundaries. Nothing ever happened that I couldn't handle. Once when a guy came on stage making rude gestures, I hit him over the head with my guitar. -- Suzi Quatro
While this debate today is a belated effort to inform the American people, it is nevertheless an empty gesture. It is time to admit our mistake in Iraq and begin to bring our troops home with honor. -- Raul Grijalva
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. -- James Levine
Our strength is not just in the size of our defense budget, but in the size of our hearts, in the size of our gratitude for their sacrifice. And that's not just measured in words or gestures. -- Jennifer Granholm
A minister of Jesus Christ should not be regardless of his attitude. If he is the representative of Jesus Christ, his deportment, his attitude, his gestures, should be of that character which will not strike the beholder with disgust. -- Ellen G. White
It is impossible for a man to conceal himself. In every act, word or gesture he stands revealed as he is, and not as he would have himself appear to be. From the Universe, nothing is or an be hidden. -- Ernest Holmes
I see poetry as a path toward new understanding and transformation, and so I've looked at specific poems I love, and at poetry's gestures in the broadest sense, in an effort to feel and learn what they offer from the inside. -- Jane Hirshfield
Let us lose none of their humble words, let us note their slightest gestures, and tell me, tell me that we will think of them together, now and later, when we realise the misery of the times and the magnitude of their sacrifice. -- Georges Duhamel
We can't equate spending on veterans with spending on defense. Our strength is not just in the size of our defense budget, but in the size of our hearts, in the size of our gratitude for their sacrifice. And that's not just measured in words or gestures. -- Jennifer Granholm
Dress codes and gestures and attitudes have always inspired me, as has youth culture in general, although now I question it more. If you analyze youth cultures over history, there has always been something strict about them - you have to be like this or like that. -- Raf Simons
Looking ahead, future generations may learn their social skills from robots in the first place. The cute yellow Keepon robot from Carnegie Mellon University has shown the ability to facilitate social interactions with autistic children. Morphy at the University of Washington happily teaches gestures to children by demonstration. -- Daniel H. Wilson
No art is any good unless you can feel how it's put together. By and large it's the eye, the hand and if it's any good, you feel the body. Most of the best stuff seems to be a complete gesture, the totality of the artist's body; you can really lean on it. -- Frank Stella
As an attorney, I could be rather flamboyant in court. I did not act as though I were a black man in a white man's court, but as if everyone else - white and black - was a guest in my court. When trying a case, I often made sweeping gestures and used high-flown language. -- Nelson Mandela
For me, personally, life in South Africa had come to an end. I had been lucky in some of the whites I had met. Meeting them had made a straight 'all-blacks-are-good, all-whites-are-bad' attitude impossible. But I had reached a point where the gestures of even my friends among the whites were suspect, so I had to go or be forever lost. -- Peter Abrahams
Everybody in Hollywood loves symbolic gestures. -- Drew Carey
I don't make big grand gestures, generally. -- Katherine Heigl
Prayer is in all things, in all gestures. -- Mother Teresa
He was crying in there, making woman gestures. -- Mike Tyson
Most full lives are filled with empty gestures. -- Carolyn Heilbrun
Sincerity is romantic. I don't think you need gestures. -- Simon Cowell
I try to do romantic gestures all the time. -- Armie Hammer
I kick kittens. I made rude gestures at nuns. -- Cassandra Clare
The smallest gestures you do can sometimes carry the most weight. -- Joe Vitale
International relationships are preordained to be clumsy gestures based on imperfect knowledge. -- Rebecca West
Businesses have to make gestures that go beyond words. Persuasion no longer works. -- John Gerzema
There is no relationship between the gestures and what an orchestra will do. -- James Levine
The most romantic things are very small, kind gestures from people you love. -- Douglas Booth
Seek opportunities to show you care. The smallest gestures often make the biggest difference. -- John Wooden
It's hard enough to be a heterosexual playing gay and not having the gay gestures. -- Christopher Sieber
In the distance, the gestures of animals look human, the gestures of human beings bestial. -- Malcolm de Chazal
I had committed myself: without love I'd have to go through the gestures of love. -- Graham Greene
Even in your smallest gestures, you express your sense of honor, if you have one. -- Brian Morton
Politicians would only move beyond gestures once there was a critical mass of informed citizens. -- Paul Collier
Without the meditative background that is criticism, works become isolated gestures, historical accidents, soon forgotten. -- Milan Kundera
Humanity needs to see these gestures of peace and to hear words of hope and peace! -- Pope Francis
The different tempos and yeah, it's cadence. It's the way she moves through space, it's gestures. -- Vera Farmiga
Through the history of our nation, Americans have always extended their hands in gestures of assistance. -- Ronald Reagan
We are full of rhythms . . . our pulse, our gestures, our digestive tracts, the lunar and seasonal cycles. -- Yehudi Menuhin
You know a relationship has deteriorated past the point of salvage when one person detests another's gestures. -- Josephine Humphreys
Often, organizations need bold, grand gestures to galvanize people towards a new mission or refocus their attention. -- Howard Schultz
Even small gestures of kindness have the potential to reap enormous rewards. Only the shortsighted man believes otherwise. -- Erika Johansen
All the bystanders at an event worthy of note adopt various gestures of admiration when contemplating the occurrence. -- Leonardo da Vinci
The mask means to me: freshness of color, sumptuous decoration, wild unexpected gestures, very shrill expressions, exquisite turbulence. -- James Ensor
Women can be vivacious. We are allowed more varieties of facial expression and gestures. Men must be rocklike. -- Gloria Steinem
Take a favorite trick of yours and write a 'gestures script' how could you improve clarity [using gestures]. -- Roberto Giobbi
The Constitution requires that Congress treat similarly situated persons similarly, not that it engages in gestures of superficial equality. -- William Rehnquist
Instead of having to program, to wire, to solder, littleBits allow you to program using very simple intuitive gestures. -- Ayah Bdeir
But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires. -- James Joyce
Gentleness in the gait is what simplicity is in the dress. Violent gestures or quick movements inspire involuntary disrespect. -- Honore de Balzac
I'm the master of distractions. A couple of hand gestures and BAM! I'll pull the underwear clean off your butt. -- Si Robertson
Is courage just the awareness that gestures, journeys, lives have intrinsic shape, and must, one way or another, be completed? -- Peter Behrens
I was hittin' him with body punches and I hurt him. Actually he was cryin' in there, makin' woman gestures like -- Mike Tyson
Romance is about the little things - small loving gestures, hugs, saying 'I love you' (and meaning it), and sincere compliments. -- Gregory J. P. Godek
For a guy who is always banging on about the masculine virtues, Nixon had this remarkable proclivity for very dainty gestures. -- Harry Shearer
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
Sometimes my husband will surprise me with flowers for no reason. Unexpected romantic gestures are very important and keep things exciting. -- Adriana Lima
A brand is a living entity-and it is enriched or undermined cumulatively over time, the product of a thousand small gestures. -- Michael Eisner
A chimpanzee who is really gearing up for a fight doesn't waste time with gestures but just goes ahead and attacks. -- Frans de Waal
It was one of the late Conservative Government's gestures towards agriculture -- graceful as a kiss, and of about as much use. -- Sheila Kaye-Smith
Never mind a world That can't see past brutality Answers are getting the gas Live gestures Have constantly been used As weapons -- Ric Ocasek
The internet is a wild land with its own games, languages and gestures through which we are starting to share common feelings. -- Ai Weiwei
Line dancing is as sinful as any other type of dancing, with its sexual gestures and touching. It is an incitement to lust. -- Ian Paisley
No, I'm just a very naughty boy. I do all sorts of bad things. I kick kittens. I make rude gestures at nuns. -- Cassandra Clare
That's how myths are born. Out of our carelessness, out of our tattered nerves, out of jokes that go wrong and flashy gestures. -- Sergei Lukyanenko
Excesses are essentially gestures. It is easy to be extremely cruel, magnanimous, humble or self-sacrificing when we see ourselves as actors in a performance. -- Eric Hoffer
Words of encouragement, a little respect, simple gestures of kindness from a teacher promote the perfect climate for studetns to study, learn, and grow. -- Donna Fargo
The gestures and the swagger and the attitude of black men is imitated everywhere in American culture, but people still find black men intolerable. -- Jess Row
Art is just a series of natural gestures. For God's sake, don't try to be artistic - all wild animals walk the same way. -- John Marin
We should think of a photographer as a Samurai who makes rituals, moves and gestures in order to develop his techniques and his instinct. -- Alex Majoli
Conan Doyle is amazing in the way he has Watson describe Sherlock's posture, mood swings, his hand gestures, and so forth in the novels. -- Benedict Cumberbatch
The higher the artist, the fewer the gestures. The fewer the tools, the greater the imagination. The greater the will, the greater the secret failure. -- Ben Okri
Yo, yo, yo, check it out," said PJ, with enough hand gestures that any deaf person watching would have thought he had ASL Tourette's syndrome -- Christopher Moore
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Kindness manifests in a lot of ways, such as acts of compassion, helpfulness, empathy, forgiveness, and caring. These gestures kindle and ignite feelings of love. -- Jude Bijou
No matter how you decide to spend a little more time on your gestures of giving, the point is just quite simply that you do. -- Nick Offerman
We were awash in tiny attentions. Small gestures, words, empathies thought to be extinct came to life... We discovered the color of each other's eyes. -- Jerry Spinelli
OPERA, n. A play representing life in another world, whose inhabitants have no speech but song, no motions but gestures and no postures but attitudes. -- Ambrose Bierce
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
The ministers of Christ should possess refinement. All uncouth manners, attitudes and gestures should be discarded, and they should encourage in themselves humble dignity of bearing. -- Ellen G. White
Dating is about grand romantic gestures that mean little over the long term. Marriage is about small acts of kindness that bond you over a lifetime. -- Lori Gottlieb
Nurturing is not complex. It's simply being tuned in to the thing or person before you and offering small gestures toward what it needs at that time. -- Mary Anne Radmacher
In song and dance, man forgets how to walk and speak and is on the way into flying into the air, dancing... his very gestures express enchantment. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
When you play somebody, you pick up a lot of their gestures, his voice, the way he speaks, his body language. You don't often get that opportunity. -- Robert Loggia
I think it's important to do a good job and not to feel that you've got to make grand gestures, but just to get on and deliver. -- Theresa May

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