Gesture Quotes

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

Few enjoy noisy overcrowded functions. But they are a gesture of goodwill on the part of host or hostess, and also on the part of guests who submit to them.

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

I encourage the translators of my books to take as much license as they feel that they need. This is not quite the heroic gesture it might seem, because I've learned, from working with translators over the years, that the original novel is, in a way, a translation itself.

For the theatre one needs long arms; it is better to have them too long than too short. An artiste with short arms can never, never make a fine gesture.

The Boomers have modeled a set of bad habits, and one grand gesture is not going to unwind all those bad habits.

These hands which stretch out, implore, beg, then rise to the head in a gesture of calamity.

It has taken me years of struggle, hard work and research to learn to make one simple gesture, and I know enough about the art of writing to realize that it would take as many years of concentrated effort to write one simple, beautiful sentence.

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

I have the ability to sing with emotion and feeling, but if you say I sound like Billie Holiday, that's cool. Let's look at who Billie was: she was this person, this singer, this beautiful diva who could move the audience with the slightest gesture of her hand.

The law courts must appear as a threatening gesture toward secret vice. The bank must declare: here your money is secure and well looked after by honest people.

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!

Actors cannot choose the manner in which they are born. Consequently, it is the one gesture in their lives completely devoid of self-consciousness.

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

You're here to sweat. This program is live. There's about one thousand million people watching you. So, you remember - one wrong word, one foolish gesture and your whole career could go down in flames. Hold that thought and have a nice night.

Great cataclysmic things can go by and neither the orchestra nor the conductor are under the delusion that whether they make this or that gesture is going to be the deciding factor in how it comes out.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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?

Have you ever heard a good joke? If you've ever heard someone just right, with the right pacing, then you're already on the way to poetry. It's about using words in very precise ways and using gesture.

While this debate today is a belated effort to inform the American people, it is nevertheless an empty gesture. It is time to admit our mistake in Iraq and begin to bring our troops home with honor.

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

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

If this gesture was the way of getting out of the penitentiary, I'd do it.

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

As governor, when I visited our troops in Kuwait and Iraq, I served them Thanksgiving dinner. It was a small gesture compared to their sacrifice.