Quotes about Gesture

Gesture is not always action. Votes: 3

Gesture will survive whatever kind of light you have. Gesture can triumph over anything because of its narrative content. Votes: 3

When surprised and excited and innocent Gus emerged from Grand Gesture Metaphorically Inclined Augustus, I literally could not resist. Votes: 3

But I also know that sometimes Adam needs to do things the dramatic way. He is fond of the Grand Gesture Votes: 3

Nothing in a portrait is a matter of indifference. Gesture, grimace, clothing, decor even - all must combine to realize a character. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

If you want a symbolic gesture, don't burn the flag; wash it. Votes: 2

The retrospective glance is a relatively easy gesture for us to make. Votes: 2

Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence. Votes: 2

It's a rather rude gesture, but at least it's clear what you mean. Votes: 2

Each single gesture of art must be daring. One must not be concerned with the side-effects. Votes: 2

These hands which stretch out, implore, beg, then rise to the head in a gesture of calamity. Votes: 2

Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is. Votes: 2

The smallest gesture can mean to much to those who may need a little lift in their lives. Votes: 2

What could be more convincing, moreover, than the gesture of laying one's cards face up on the table? Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

King of grand gesture. Votes: 0

They are poets of gesture. Votes: 0

Every gesture is a revolutionary act. Votes: 0

Living in memories is an empty gesture. Votes: 0

Against the charitable gesture there is no defence. Votes: 0

The extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation. Votes: 0

No gesture is too small when done with gratitude. Votes: 0

It may be meaningless, but at least it's a gesture. Votes: 0

I can only gesture at what makes a story good. Votes: 0

My method is to find a word with a gesture. Votes: 0

Doubt is what allows a single gesture to have a heart. Votes: 0

I have a big problem with conductors who gesture a lot. Votes: 0

All my life I have struggled to make one authentic gesture.... Votes: 0

Apology is the most courageous gesture we can make to ourselves. Votes: 0

There is no gesture more devastating than the back turning away. Votes: 0

Never raise your hand menacingly, but only in a friendly gesture! Votes: 0

Sometimes a slow gradual approach does more good than a large gesture. Votes: 0

Morality's not practical. Morality's a gesture. A complicated gesture learnt from books. Votes: 0

Smiling half-reluctance seems to promise more than the frankest gesture of desire. Votes: 0

A kind gesture can reach a wound that only compassion can heal. Votes: 0

If you want a symbolic gesture, don't burn the flag, wash it. Votes: 0

Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith. Votes: 0

In the end, the gesture of painting becomes almost meditative, like a ritual. Votes: 0

how magnanimous was a gesture if one were constantly aware of its magnanimity? Votes: 0

Remember that a gesture of friendship, no matter how small, is always appreciated. Votes: 0

Being shown a gesture of love is like being offered a portion of God. Votes: 0

The formal artistic gesture is already expressed in the act of taking the photograph. Votes: 0

Not one word, not one gesture of yours shall I, could I, ever forget... Votes: 0

Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice. Votes: 0

Why do people always gesture with their hands when they talk on the phone? Votes: 0

The two most powerful things in existence: a kind word and a thoughtful gesture. Votes: 0

A story lives transformed by a gesture not made or a word not spoken Votes: 0

A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude. Votes: 0

Snow makes cities innocent again, reveals the frailty of the human gesture against the void. Votes: 0

The most shocking act, closely examined, is just a louder version of some habitual gesture. Votes: 0

We don't experience light, color, and gesture in a vacuum. We experience it in contexts. Votes: 0

It was quite elementary,' returned the detective with a languid gesture of one hand. Votes: 0

And that is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment at a time. Votes: 0

If this gesture was the way of getting out of the penitentiary, Id do it. Votes: 0

In drawing, I don't erase. I believe the original gesture has to be the best. Votes: 0

What sculptors do is represent the essence of gesture. What is important in mime is attitude. Votes: 0

Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye, in every gesture dignity and love. Votes: 0

It's disgusting. On trains, the number of those people doing that strange masturbation-like gesture is multiplying. Votes: 0

Gratefulness is the inner gesture of giving meaning to our life by receiving life as gift. Votes: 0

The nondual universe of One Taste arises as a spontaneous gesture of your own true nature. Votes: 0

Thus drivers inching southward will see the phalanx of birds heading west as one spontaneous gesture. Votes: 0

Typographical design should perform optically what the speaker creates through voice and gesture of his thoughts. Votes: 0

Is a gesture of charity genuine or is it a kind of deep moral tax write-off? Votes: 0

Something doing every minute' may be a gesture of despair-or the height of a battle against boredom. Votes: 0

Postmodernism surely requires an even greater grasp of symbolism, as it's increasingly an art of gesture alone. Votes: 0

Peace is present in every breath we take.Peace is present in every loving gesture we make. Votes: 0

At the simplicity of the gesture, he felt a pang: the raw nerve of his loneliness exposed. Votes: 0

He sat by her, watching every gesture she made, as if he would paint her portrait afterward. Votes: 0

I believe that a small action or a subtle gesture in life can change many, many things. Votes: 0

If language was given to men to conceal their thoughts, then gesture's purpose was to disclose them. Votes: 0

Power immobilizes; it freezes with a single gesture-grandiose, terrible, theatrical, or finally, simply monotonous-the variety which is life. Votes: 0

For the theatre one needs long arms... an artiste with short arms can never make a fine gesture. Votes: 0

He found that it was easy to make a heroic gesture, but hard to abide by its results. Votes: 0

Never ask a trader if he is profitable: you can easily see it in his gesture and gait. Votes: 0

The gesture is the thing truly expressive of the individual - as we think so will we act. Votes: 0

I thought of betrayal and how it came so easily - in a word, a glance, a gesture. Votes: 0

Every important cultural gesture comes down to a morality, a model for human behavior concentrated into a gesture. Votes: 0

I was a Shakespearean actor, I had preconceived ideas, line readings - everything was a gesture, everything was conscious. Votes: 0

It is (often) the quiet gesture which carries the most significance - the one which suddenly directs the symphony. Votes: 0

But it seems to me that once you begin a gesture it's fatal not to go through with it. Votes: 0

Sure, sis!' Then he raised his hands in a stop everything gesture. 'I feel a haiku coming on. Votes: 0

I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates. Votes: 0

Correlation doesn't imply causation, but it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively and gesture furtively while mouthing "˜look over there.' Votes: 0

I like to use research to enlarge the poem. And sometimes a rhetorical or syntactical gesture stitches the poem along. Votes: 0

You were at the age where you could fall in love with a girl over an expression, over a gesture Votes: 0

And I must bear What is ordained with patience, being aware Necessity doth front the universe With an invincible gesture. Votes: 0

Every gesture is a gesture from the blood, every expression a symbolic utterance... Everything is of the blood, of the senses. Votes: 0

While you are still beautiful and life still woos, it is such a fine gesture of disdainful pride to jilt it. Votes: 0

A poem in form still has to have voice, gesture, a sense of discovery, a metaphoric connection, as any poetry does. Votes: 0

But in love each moment is magnified, and every gesture, word and syllable is examined like a speech by the President. Votes: 0

A writer will divine a metaphor from a pattern on a dress, or a gesture, because sunsets have been done before. Votes: 0

I am the most spontaneous speaker in the world because every word, every gesture, and every retort has been carefully rehearsed. Votes: 0

Following Christ means following him through life, following him in every word and gesture, following him out of one clime into another. Votes: 0

The touched heart madly stirs,your laughter is water hurrying over pebbles - every gesture is a proclamation,every sound is speech... Votes: 0

The Boomers have modeled a set of bad habits, and one grand gesture is not going to unwind all those bad habits. Votes: 0

I don't quite comprehend why you'd force someone to bow when the purpose of the gesture is to display allegiance and respect. Votes: 0

I really like the structure of my body. It moves well, it looks good, it photographs well, it understands gesture and nuance. Votes: 0

Tucker strokes my hair. There's something so tender about the gesture. It might as well have been him whispering I love you. Votes: 0

That's a gesture of endearment in some cultures. Some hug, some kiss, some set each other on fire in small patches of woodland Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

Actors cannot choose the manner in which they are born. Consequently, it is the one gesture in their lives completely devoid of self-consciousness. Votes: 0

Investments are a real partnership, with an expected return; donations are a gesture made as a result of ethical, religious, or political passions. Votes: 0

The gesture with which one generation guards the next is the movement, and the only time we see it clearly, of life itself. Votes: 0

Babies aren't really born of their parents. They are born of every kind word, loving gesture, hope, and dream their parents ever had. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The voting records of virtually every member of Congress reveal that the oath of office is more a ceremonial gesture than a sacred commitment. Votes: 0

Sometimes a simple, almost insignificant gesture on the part of a teacher can have a profound formative effect on the life of a student. Votes: 0

We effect more than we can possibly know. With every mood, every thought, every word, every gesture, we change our lives and our universe. Votes: 0

Sometimes, all it takes is one gesture, one word, to change the course of someone's life. Even if you know it won't last forever. Votes: 0

You pierce me with a look, a word, a gesture. And yet those same weapons could shield me from hurt if you so choose. Votes: 0

Turning your nose up at a genuine and sincere gesture of hospitality is no way to travel or to make friends around the world. Votes: 0

When the music is physically demanding, I want to make sure that the effort involved is put across to the audience through physical gesture. Votes: 0

If I had it to do all over again . . . I wouldn't change a thing.'. . . the final expression of narcissism, the last gesture of self-congratulation. Votes: 0

A kind word sends vibes of love, if we are perceptive, if we know how love permeates and proliferates with this little gesture of giving. Votes: 0

You persuade a man only insofar as you can talk his language by speech, gesture, tonality, order, image, attitude, idea, identifying your ways with his Votes: 0

The haiku reproduces the designating gesture of the child pointing at whatever it is (the haiku shows no partiality for the subject), merely saying: that! Votes: 0

As governor, when I visited our troops in Kuwait and Iraq, I served them Thanksgiving dinner. It was a small gesture compared to their sacrifice. Votes: 0

Actors are willing to give their entire lives to a moment--to that line, that laugh, that gesture, or that interpretation that will stir the audience's soul Votes: 0

Call it my little gesture toward social conscience, but I like to think I'm teaching a certain number of people to read. Now that sounds pretentious! Votes: 0

Writing is, after all, a gesture towards other people, giving something to others. And so it's not a completely hermetic exercise. It's really an opening up. Votes: 0

Hence it is from the representation of things spoken by means of posture and gesture that the whole of the art of dance has been elaborated. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I think that reaching out to kids that feel really isolated is a life saving gesture that we have a responsibility as older queers to do. Votes: 0

I am not married, no. I wasn't really into the notion when I was younger, but now I think a proposal is the ultimate romantic gesture. Votes: 0

Oh longing for places that were not Cherished enough in that fleeting hour How I long to make good from afar The forgotten gesture, the additional act. Votes: 0

Salinger is a master of the memorable detail, the seemingly random gesture, the debris of mundane daily operations, the stuff that is left out of any analysis. Votes: 0

(and from my thighs which shrug and pant a murdering rain leapingly reaches the upward singular deepest flower which she carries in a gesture of her hips) Votes: 0

Remember," he called. "Just be yourself, and everyone will love you!" Nick rolled his eyes and made a rude gesture, and Alan drove the car away laughing. Votes: 0

Just remember, the language of gesture is more effective than the spoken word. Body language is very powerful. Bring the balance within you and project that balance. Votes: 0

I'll be honest, I felt an urge to squeeze him like a kitten and that led to the gesture I made. There was nothing behind it really. Votes: 0

Today, with the way things are in all circles, in soccer, in society, in politics, where it seems anything goes, a gesture of honesty goes down well. Votes: 0

Only as a grand gesture of defeat will men creep into the arms of the state and seek refuge in its power rather than their own courage. Votes: 0

I think it is the fact that birds are two-legged, like us, which gives them something of our balance and gesture and makes them nearer to us. Votes: 0

Whenever I go to bars in London, people send me over Cosmopolitans. It's a very sweet gesture, but I don't like them, so they just sit there. Votes: 0

Ashley watched her go and saw her square her small shoulders as she went. And that gesture went to his heart, more than any words she had spoken. Votes: 0

With one kind gesture you can change a life. One person at a time you can change the world. One day at a time we can change everything. Votes: 0

The sculptor must search with passionate intensity for the underlying principle of the organisation of mass and tension - the meaning of gesture and the structure of rhythm. Votes: 0

I want to become less and less about the laptop. That's what's lovely about an orchestra - the physicality, the way every gesture relates to something you're hearing. Votes: 0

You can, when Time is ripe, swope to your feet - at your full height - at a single gesture. Ready to go where? Why... Wherever God motions. Votes: 0

The big moment came when it was decided to paint...Just To Paint. The gesture on the canvas was a gesture of liberation, from Value- political, aesthetic, moral. Votes: 0

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? Votes: 0

The real question, after all, is not the quantity of life, but its quality, its depth, its purity, its fortitude, its fineness of spirit and gesture of soul. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Every man has a different idea of what's beautiful, and it's best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and let the mind create the tree. Votes: 0

Expression is not a matter of passion mirrored on the human face or revealed by a violent gesture. When I paint a picture, its every detail is expressive. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The gesture of the amorous embrace seems to fulfill, for a time, the subject's dream of total union with the loved being: The longing for consummation with the other... Votes: 0

And always the animals from each trip you bring back a gaze a pose a gesture that points to the truest of humanity better than images of humanity itself Votes: 0

The highest of the world's mountains, it seems, has to make but a single gesture of magnificence to be the lord of all, vast in unchallenged and isolated supremacy. Votes: 0

The act of civil disobedience is the act of taking our anger and turning it into sacred rage. It is a personal and collective gesture of resistance and insistance. Votes: 0

I think by drawing, so I'll draw or diagram everything from a piece of furniture to a stage gesture. I understand things best when they're in graphics, not words. Votes: 0

One of my big inspirations was Céleste Mogador. She was a courtesan who wrote her memoirs in order to pay off her debts, which is a hilarious gesture. Votes: 0

You should not cause hurt even by a word, a look or a gesture. Tolerance, fortitude, equanimity - these help you to be steady in ahimsa (absence of violence). Votes: 0

In mid-20th-century America, it could be argued that the novelist still had the most claim of anyone to omniscience. Whatever he/she couldn't prove, he/she could gesture at. Votes: 0

Flowers and jewelry worked for most girls as a romantic gesture, but here I was, misty-eyed at watching him show my mother how to stab the shit out of him. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Every word and every deed, every thought and every gesture, even the simple act of paying attention can be a gift and therefore an echo of God's life in us. Votes: 0

My art is just an effort to express the truth of my being in gesture and movement. It has taken me long years to find even one absolutely true movement. Votes: 0

Religion, even the most primitive and superstitious, is inevitably a beginning of culture. It is not possible without some kind of symbolic expression ... and begets dramatic gesture, dance, and chant ... Votes: 0

It's still so rare for anyone to be personally acknowledged by a brand that the impact of such a simple, polite gesture on a customer's buying habits could be huge. Votes: 0

I make a gesture that is intended to convey, "Hey, no hurry, talk as long as you'd like," and probably actually conveys, "Hey, look at me! I have spastic hands. Votes: 0

At times our need for a sympathetic gesture is so great that we care not what exactly it signifies or how much we may have to pay for it afterwards. Votes: 0

You know, in the WikiLeaks cables, the Chinese discovered that Kevin Rudd was urging the Americans to keep the military option open against them. This is hardly a friendly gesture. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

We can be dry as dust, distracted and insensible to God's presence. Still we can pray...and if we make even the smallest gesture of availability he will be there. Votes: 0

So when I hear a guy after a game-winning home run say or gesture that God was on his side, I think to myself, 'He's saying God screwed the pitcher. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I moved my arms through the water, feeling them float on the surface, watching the waves and wake that followed my gesture. Here was magic, I thought. Here was something holy. Votes: 0

All art is an intensely vulnerable gesture, and it is made with no small amounts of risk, and fear. So, I have plenty of sympathy for self-defense mechanisms, especially among artists. Votes: 0

I've learned that in the theater the story is everything. Every lyric, every line and every musical gesture has to propel the journey of a given character or the overall plot. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Adolescents sense a secret, unique greatness in thems.elves that seeks expression. They gesture towards the heart when trying to express any of this, a significant clue to the whole affair. Votes: 0

... I watched in astonishment, Jess reached up and cupped Miss Georgia's breasts in her hands, giving them an appraising squeeze and admiring nod. A moment later, Miss Georgia returned the gesture... Votes: 0

Eventually I saw that the path of the heart requires a full gesture, a degree of abandon that can be terrifying. Only then is it possible to achieve a sparkling metamorphosis. Votes: 0

I could just barely see the dark curve of his shoulder, and something about the shape it made, the gesture it suggested, filled me with a sort of fierce, awful affection. Votes: 0

It is, at the most basic level, a bundle of contradictions: a desire for power that strips you of all power. A gesture of strength that divests you of all strength. Votes: 0

They, who passed away long ago, still exist in us, as predisposition, as burden upon our fate, as murmuring blood, and as gesture that rises up from the depths of time. Votes: 0

Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice. It is the protection of a fundamental human right, the right to dignity and a decent life . . . Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Perfume is a form of writing, an ink, a choice made in the first person, the dot on the i, a weapon, a courteous gesture, part of the instant, a consequence. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

He liked the way her hand felt in his, liked the simple intimacy of the gesture and the way it said - without the need for words - that they were together. Votes: 0

The rest of them looked proper when they did it, but somehow Edward made even this gesture appear like in seconds he'd rip off her corset and do away with her skirt. Votes: 0

He raised his hand in a peaceful gesture. "You need to relax a bit, dove. Like Mouse over there. You trust me, don't you, Mouse?" "Nope!" "Ahhh, I'm hurt. Nobody likes me. Votes: 0

We walked outside, Ben-Gurion accompanying us. Allon repeated his question, What is to be done with the Palestinian population?' Ben-Gurion waved his hand in a gesture which said 'Drive them out! Votes: 0

Every day I wake up and I really try to pinch myself to take advantage of today and to use that freedom of gesture to do what I really like to do. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

A dog – a collie – went up to Eric, looked up at his face, and growled. “Shoo,” Eric said, making an imperious gesture with his hand. Votes: 0

There's something strange about a laptop, how you can make the tiniest gesture and make the biggest sound. I don't feel I've resolved working a sense of performance into a piece yet. Votes: 0

I think of the meaning of the word testimony. Originally it named the custom of two men holding each other's testicles in a gesture of trust, later to metamorphose into the handshake. Votes: 0

Sometimes, in that darkness, there is a single act of love, some selfless gesture, an aspiration, and we see that it's not been all waste, all hopeless, and we can ... well ... go on. Votes: 0

Success...Is all about being able to extend love to people...not in a big capital-letter sense but in the everyday; little by little, task by task, gesture by gesture, word by word Votes: 0

If a mark of affection can sometimes be taken for an insult, perhaps the gesture of love is not universal: it too must be translated from one language to another, must be learned. Votes: 0

The gesture must be correct. If the gesture is correct, your mind really creates the reality of the figure, and it is not necessary to hang on all the rest [of the details]... Votes: 0

When I make my drawings... the path traced by my pencil on the sheet of paper is, to some extent, analogous to the gesture of a man groping his way in the darkness. Votes: 0

Light is supposed to be reasuring. You learn that when you're very young. It defeats the bad things creeping around in your room.Every Parent knows the magic gesture chases the monesters away." Votes: 0

So what if I'm smokin' weed onstage and doing what I gotta do? It's not me shooting nobody, stabbing nobody, killing nobody. It'sa peaceful gesture and they have to respect that and appreciate that. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

Well to me the most interesting things can be an actor's facial expression, a gesture, the movement of a body - all those things that we are saying to each other in-between the words. Votes: 0

Our lives are made of these moments. Simple words and actions, taken together, weave a single day, and our days become our life. Every gesture is a seed, and the seed determines the harvest. Votes: 0

Remember yourself. Deep inside, you have an observer, a constant neutral witness to your posture, gesture, facial expression, breathing, taste, impressions of light and sound. Don't leap to interpret. Just be there and observe. Votes: 0

The quality of ideas seems to play a minor role in mass movement leadership. What counts is the arrogant gesture, the complete disregard of the opinion of others, the singlehanded defiance of the world. Votes: 0

As all curves have reference to their centres or foci, so all beauty of character has reference to the soul, and is a graceful gesture of recognition or waving of the body toward it. Votes: 0

Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture I love) I shan't have lied. It's evident the art of losing's not too hard to master though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster. Votes: 0

Kisses open doors, I've noticed. That one gesture can unlock secrets, ease open feelings. It can't be prevented--these kisses just are. It's how they work. They break into basements you never knew you had. Votes: 0

I've lost track of where friendship ends and falling begins. (this is the foolish refrain of the hopelessly devoted.) there are times I want to kiss you midsentence. undo the not-doing with one gesture. Votes: 0

Look em in the eye. Make a gesture of inclusion, which he did all the time. And above all, have a chorus. So I learned from Pete Seeger to have something for them to sing. Votes: 0

For the Chinese, the Greeks, the Mayans, or the Egyptians, nature was a living totality, a creative being. For this reason, art, according to Aristotle, is imitation; the poet imitates the creative gesture of nature. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Speech as known to us was unnecessary. A fragment of a sentence amounted almost to a long-winded redundancy. A gesture, a grunt, the curve of a facial line--even a significantly timed pause yielded informational juice. Votes: 0

There's just no concept of layering a thick-sleeved sweater under a coat in L.A. A coat is more of a gesture than a necessity. You know, in case the temperature goes down to 55 degrees. Votes: 0

London goes beyond any boundary or convention.It contains every wish or word ever spoken, every action or gesture ever made, every harsh or noble statement ever expressed. It is illimitable. It is Infinite London. Votes: 0

Can I ask you a personal question"? Of all the rhetorical questionsin the world, that is the one which irritates me most with itssimultaneous gesture towards and denial of the trespass that is aboutto follow. Votes: 0

Joy is the true gift of Christmas, and we can communicate this joy simply: with a smile, a kind gesture, a little help, forgiveness. And the joy we give will certainly come back to us. Votes: 0

If you have an idea, you have to move on it, to make a gesture. Drawing is an immediate way of articulating that idea - of making a gesture that is both physical and intellectual. Votes: 0

Scripture sees hell as self-chosen. . . Hell appears as God's gesture of respect for human choice. All receive what they actually chose. Either to be with God forever, worshipping Him, or without God forever, worshipping themselves. Votes: 0