Quotes of: Gestures Keyword

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

Marcel Marceau

I make rude gestures at nuns

Cassandra Clare

The thinking is that we started evolving language not by speaking but by gesturing.

Frans de Waal

Please accept this sandwich as a gesture of solidarity.

Castiel

Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men.

Theodor Adorno

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

Toni Servillo

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

Malcolm Arnold

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

Franz Kafka

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

George Crumb

I do think grand gestures are a hit and miss, especially for girls.

Carly Rae Jepsen

I have, for my own projected works and ideas, only the silliest and dewiest of hopes; no matter what, I am romantic enough or sentimental enough to wish to contribute something to life’s fabric, to the world’s beauty.... [S]imply to live does not...

Frank O'Hara

Rufus T. Firefly: Dig trenches, with our men being killed off like flies? There isn't time to dig trenches. We'll have to buy them ready made. Here, run out and get some trenches. Wait a minute, get 'em this high... [gestures to his chin] Rufus T. Fi...

Duck Soup

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

Norman Thomas

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

Katharine Hepburn

Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.

Francois Rabelais

I love watching you – you’re a silent film of gestures

John Geddes

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

Robert Morgan

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

The Great Gatsby

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

Andrew Eldritch

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

Henri Matisse

How beautiful to touch another's soul with a word, a gesture, a thought.

Marty Rubin