Gestures Quotes - Page 25

• I read a lot of books. Here are the books I'm using for my 9/11 project. [Wright gestures to three six-foot-long shelves of books.] As I read them I highlight certain passages. Then I have an assistant write down each quote on an index card and note where it came from.

  Lawrence Wright

  Book, Writing, Feet

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• 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.

  John L'Heureux

  Darkness, Selfless, Goes On

  John L'Heureux (2007). “The Shrine at Altamira”, p.54, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Gay is a subculture, a slur, a set of gestures, a slang, a look, a posture, a parade, a rainbow flag, a film genre, a taste in music, a hairstyle, a marketing demographic, a bumper sticker, a political agenda and philosophical viewpoint. Gay is a pre-packaged, superficial persona-a lifestyle. It's a sexual identity that has almost nothing to do with sexuality.

  Jack Donovan

  Philosophical, Gay, Rainbow

  "Anrophilia: A Manifesto: Rejecting the Gay Identity, Reclaiming Masculinity". Book by Jack Donovan, 2006.

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• Vocal music is an attempt to take the whole human being and project it into space. It is the ultimate gesture of getting out of yourself. You take a part of you that is most private, most personal, most inward and you hurl it out into space - you project it as far as you can. That gesture of opining this whole region of the body results in an enormous spiritual release, and is felt by other people with tremendous impact.

  Peter Sellers

  Spiritual, Impact, Space

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• Politicians would only move beyond gestures once there was a critical mass of informed citizens.

  Paul Collier

  Moving, Citizens, Politician

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• While I was the mayor of Bogotá, I received occasional death threats. Therefore, I had to use a bullet-proof vest. I made a hole right where my heart is. The hole was in the shape of a heart. I believe this kind of gesture, gave me indeed more protection.

  Antanas Mockus

  Believe, Heart, Use

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• It’s disgusting. On trains, the number of those people doing that strange masturbation-like gesture is multiplying.

  Hayao Miyazaki

  Numbers, People, Strange

  "Hayao Miyazaki: iPad Use ‘Disgusting,’ ‘Masturbation-Like’". www.huffingtonpost.com. September 11, 2010.

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• John Gottman is our leading explorer of the inner world of relationships. In The Relationship Cure, he has found gold once again. This book shows how the simplest, nearly invisible gestures of care and attention hold the key to successful relationships with those we love and work with.

  William J Doherty

  Book, Successful, Keys

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

  Sarah J. Maas

  Purpose, Bows, Force

  Sarah J. Maas (2012). “Throne of Glass”, p.11, A&C Black

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• It's not the length but the quality of life that matters to me. It has always been important to me to write one sentence at a time, to live every day as if it were my last and judge it in those terms, often badly, not because it lacked grand gesture or grand passion but because it failed in the daily virtues of self-discipline, kindness, and laughter. It is love, very ordinary, human love, and not fear, which is the good teacher and the wisest judge.

  Jane Rule

  Love, Teacher, Kindness

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• 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.

  William Faulkner

  Beautiful, Men, Ideas

  Quoted in Reader's Digest, Mar. 1973

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• The job of the artist is to make a gesture and really show people what their potential is. It's not about the object, and it's not about the image; it's about the viewer. That's where the art happens.

  Jeff Koons

  Inspirational, Art, Jobs

  "Art Changes Every Day". Interview with Susan Sollin, art21.org. January 2014.

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• You must have this charm to reach the pinnacle. It is made of everything and of nothing, the striving will, the look, the walk, the proportions of the body, the sound of the voice, the ease of the gestures. It is not at all necessary to be handsome or to be pretty; all that is needful is charm.

  Sarah Bernhardt

  Voice, Sound, Looks

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• Gramophone and movies were merely the mechanization of speech and gesture. But the radio and TV were not just the electronification of speech and gesture but the electronification of the entire range of human personal expressiveness. With electronification the flow is taken out of the wire and into the vacuum tube circuit, which confers freedom and flexibility such as are in metaphor and in words themselves.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Taken, Media, Wire

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• 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.

  Paul Keating

  Military, Chinese, Friendly

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Demagogues are so easy to identify. They gesture a lot and speak with pulpit rhythms, using words that ring of religious fervour and god-fearing sincerity. Sincerity with nothing behind it takes so much practice. The practice can always be detected. Repetition. Great attempts to keep your attention on words.

  Frank Herbert

  Religious, Practice, Attention

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

  Leila Josefowicz

  Effort, Want, Music Is

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• When you watch a tea ceremony, every single movement, every single gesture is very calculated. It's very precise, and it's all protocol. It's all a part of the system. And it's almost like they've sacrificed every single thing to make that perfect. It's like their craft.

  Apolo Ohno

  Perfect, Tea, Watches

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Affective gestures pointing to things near either in time or space should be made with the hand not very far from the body of the person pointing; and if these things are distant, the hand of the painter should be more extended and the face turned toward the person to whom he is addressing the demonstration.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Hands, Space, Body

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• A deaf and dumb person who sees two men in conversation - may nevertheless understand from the attitudes and gestures of the speakers, how well their discussion is getting along.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Attitude, Men, Two

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• The political, social, and spiritual impact of the life example set by Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela might be measured in part by the profound and unique gestures made by people in different countries to honor his life upon learning of his death.

  Aberjhani

  Spiritual, Country, Unique

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• All the bystanders at an event worthy of note adopt various gestures of admiration when contemplating the occurrence.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Bystanders, Events, Admiration

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• Would I describe a preacher, I would express him simple, grave, sincere; In doctrine uncorrupt; in language plain, And plain in manner; decent, solemn, chaste, And natural in gesture; much impress'd Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too; affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.

  William Cowper

  Simple, Men, Grace

  William Cowper (1851). “The Works of William Cowper: His Life, Letters, and Poems. Now First Completed by the Introduction of Cowper's Private Correspondence”, p.556

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• 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.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Long, Fleeting, Afar

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• 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.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Fate, Long Ago, Blood

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2001). “Letters to a Young Poet”

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