Quotes of: Gesture Keyword

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

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

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

International relationships are preordained to be clumsy gestures based on imperfect knowledge.

Rebecca West

To fly/steal is woman’s gesture, to steal into language to make it fly.

Hélène Cixous

I have a big problem with conductors who gesture a lot.

James Levine

My Wish I wish my hearing would cease So I could no longer hear your words. I wish my eyes would cease So I could no longer see your gestures. I wish my mind would cease So I could no longer replay your words and gestures. I wish my heart would cease...

Casey King Fingerlike

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

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

Jonathan Carroll

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

Oleg Cassini

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

If you sing a song of peace with enough gestures and grimaces, it becomes a war song.

Jean Giraudoux

I appreciate the gesture, but you don't have to undress in order to apologize

Sprout of Disruption

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

Sarah Bernhardt

it is (often) the quiet gesture which carries the most significance - the one which suddenly directs the symphony.

Mary Anne Radmacher

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

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

Gordon B. Hinckley

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.

George Leigh Mallory

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

Reading a poem aloud to an audience is gestural as much as precise.

Douglas Dunn

Businesses have to make gestures that go beyond words. Persuasion no longer works.

John Gerzema

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