Gestures Quotes - Page 4

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

  Lee J. Cobb

  Way, Ifs

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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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• 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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• The most romantic things are very small, kind gestures from people you love.

  Douglas Booth

  People, Most Romantic, Kind

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Art as a political gesture is committed to making something beautiful, and then understanding what beauty is in your own time, because what we think of as beauty changes with time. The notion of beauty everywhere changes.

  Pat Steir

  Beautiful, Art, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• No exclusive,” I said aloud, watching Al for his opinion and seeing him shake his head and hold his hands out in a “bigger” gesture. He didn’t even know how large the offer was, and he thought I could get one bigger.

  Kim Harrison

  Hands, Als, Opinion

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• It was inevitable: Yankel fell in love with his never-wife. He would wake from sleep to miss the weight that never depressed the bed next to him, remember in earnest the weight of gestures she never made, long for the un-weight of her un-arm slung over his too-real chest, making his widower's rememberences that much more convincing and his pain that much more real.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Pain, Real, Sleep

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.48, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• She ran her gaze over his chest with frank appreciation. Then he shivered, realizing he hadn't really considered the weather. It was forty-five degrees max, but Chloe was giving him a go-on gesture with her hand. "All I have left is my pants," he said. "Yes, please." "It's cold, Chloe." She tilted her head. "Are you worried about shrinkage?" Well, he was now. -Chloe and Sawyer

  Jill Shalvis

  Appreciation, Hands, Weather

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• 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.

  Julie James

  Simple, Hands, Together

  Julie James (2009). “Practice Makes Perfect”, p.192, Penguin

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• Oh...my...god,"Drew whimpered."Who..." Anubis ignored her (bless him for that) and held out his elbow for me - a sweet old-fashioned gesture. " May I have this dance?" "I suppose," I said,as non committally as I could. I looped my arm through his, and we left the Plastic Bags behind us, all of them muttering,"Oh my god! Oh my god!" No ,actually, I wanted to say. He's my amazingly hot boy god. Find your own.

  Rick Riordan

  Sweet, Boys, Anubis

  Rick Riordan (2012). “The Serpent's Shadow (The Kane Chronicles Book 3)”, p.70, Penguin UK

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• Our view of man will remain superficial so long as we fail to go back to that origin [of silence], so long as we fail to find, beneath the chatter of words, the primordial silence, and as long as we do not describe the action which breaks this silence. the spoken word is a gesture, and its meaning, a world.

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty

  Men, Views, Long

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty (2002). “Phenomenology of Perception”, p.214, Psychology Press

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• I saw finally the futility of all these gestures, that witchcraft is but a matter of focus-that one cann apply one's fierce and immeasurable energies to an act of choice.

  Anne Rice

  Choices, Focus, Energy

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• Nothing sweeter than to drag oneself along behind events; and nothing more reasonable. But without a strong dose of madness, no initiative, no enterprise, no gesture. Reason: the rust of our vitality. It is the madman in us who forces us to adventure; once he abandons us, we are lost; everything depends on him, even our vegetative life; it is he who invites us, who obliges us to breathe, and it is also he who forces our blood to venture through our veins. Once he withdraws, we are alone indeed! We cannot be normal and alive at the same time.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Strong, Adventure, Blood

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• She is a mortal danger without meaning to be one; she's exquisite without giving ita thought; shes a trap set by nature, a rose in which love lies in ambush! Anyone who has seen her smile has known perfection. She creates grace without movement and makes all divinity fit into her slightest gesture. And neither Venus in her shell, nor Diana striding in the great, blossoming forest, can compare to her when she goes through the streets of paris in her sedan chair.

  Edmond Rostand

  Lying, Streets Of Paris, Perfection

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