Gestures Quotes

• Small gestures can have a big impact.

  Julianna Margulies

  Funny, Impact, Small Gestures

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Sometimes I get the feeling that we're just a bunch of habits. The gestures we repeat over and over, they're just our need to be recognized. Without them, we'd be unidentifiable. We have to reinvent ourselves every minute.

  Nicole Krauss

  Feelings, Needs, Sometimes

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• Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Successful, Personality, Unbroken

  The Great Gatsby ch. 1 (1925)

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

  Francois Rabelais

  Love, Marriage, Small Gestures

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• Not one word, not one gesture of yours shall I, could I, ever forget.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Love, Inspirational, Relationship

  Leo Tolstoy (2016). “The Complete Novels of Leo Tolstoy in One Premium Edition (World Classics Series): Anna Karenina, War and Peace, Resurrection, Childhood, Boyhood, Youth, The Cossacks, The Death of Ivan Ilyich... (Including Biographies of the Author)”, p.1092, e-artnow

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

  Sarah Bernhardt

  Long, Theatre, Needs

  1907 Memories of My Life.

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• First love, with its frantic haughty imagination, swings its object clear of the everyday, over the rut of living, making him all looks, silences, gestures, attitudes, a burning phrase with no context.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Attitude, First Love, Teenage Love

  ELIZABETH BOWEN (1935). “The House in Paris”

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• I come from a place that likes grandeur; it likes large gestures; it is not inhibited by flourish; it is a rhetorical society; it is a society of physical performance; it is a society of style.

  Derek Walcott

  Style, Likes, Rhetorical

  "Interview with Ed Hirsch". "Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, Eighth Series", 1986.

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• I had learned to have a perfect nausea for the theatre: the continual repetition of the same words and the same gestures, night after night, and the caprices, the way of looking at life, and the entire rigmarole disgusted me.

  Isadora Duncan

  Night, Perfect, Theatre

  Isadora Duncan (2013). “My Life (Revised and Updated)”, p.31, W. W. Norton & Company

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

  Jonathan Carroll

  Phones, Hands, People

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• To break through language in order to touch life is to create or re-create the theater.

  Antonin Artaud

  Order, Break Through, Theatre

  Antonin Artaud (1958). “The Theater and Its Double”, p.13, Grove Press

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• 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

  Children, Self Worth, Expression

  Virginia Satir (1988). “The new peoplemaking”, Science & Behavior Books

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

  Henry Williamson

  Expression, Blood, Utterance

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• 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

  Feelings, Mind, Emotion

  H.P. Blavatsky (2016). “The Secret Doctrine”, p.194, Penguin

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• The greater the will, the greater the flow of energy.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Energy, Flow, Greater

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• 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

  Business, Awards, Achievement

  Annals of an Abiding Liberal ch. 6 (1979)

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• 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

  Fighting, Littles, Language

  Augustus Baldwin Longstreet (1992). “Georgia Scenes”, p.63, Rowman & Littlefield

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• 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!

  David Eddings

  Teaching, Thinking, Numbers

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

  Henri Matisse

  Funny, Art, Expression

  "The Christian Science Monitor", quoted in the review of "The Drawings of Henri Matisse" exhibit at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art by Theodore F. Wolff, March 25, 1985.

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• 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

  Believe, People, Weakness

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• If this gesture was the way of getting out of the penitentiary, Id do it.

  Lee J. Cobb

  Way, Ifs

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

  Andrew Eldritch

  Art, Symbolism, Postmodernism

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• Be sincere. 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

  Sports, Believe, Simple

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• Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice.

  Nelson Mandela

  Hunger And Poverty, Hunger Poverty, Justice

  Twitter post from Jan 21, 2016

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

  Katharine Hepburn

  Mean, Rude, Clear

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