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Gesture is not always action.
— Jay Maisel
You and I are black and white - a film noir, filled with gestures, poignant and tender
— John Geddes
Small gestures can have a big impact.
— Julianna Margulies
Bacamarte evidenced neither vanity nor modesty; he listened in silence, as impassive as a stone god.
— Machado De Assis
Life is a series of successful gestures...
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Often, organizations need bold, grand gestures to galvanize people towards a new mission or refocus their attention.
— Howard Schultz
Never raise your hand menacingly, but only in a friendly gesture!
— Sophie Von La Roche
Sometimes, all it takes is one gesture, one word, to change the course of someone's life. Even if you know it won't last forever.
— Jean-Claude Izzo
His voice, you might say, became the place where he lived, the way other people live in their furniture or gestures
— Carol Shields
The greater the will, the greater the flow of energy.
— Paramahansa Yogananda
There was something about the smallest gestures with him that made me feel like a teenager again. I told myself to just enjoy it.
— Cindi Madsen
No, I'm just a very naughty boy. I do all sorts of bad things. I kick kittens. I make rude gestures at nuns.
— Cassandra Clare
I can only gesture at what makes a story good.
— Leonard Michaels
As when we can recall so vividly
We almost touch,
Or think of all the gestures that we failed
To make. — Herbert Mason
We almost touch,
Or think of all the gestures that we failed
To make. — Herbert Mason
All my life I have struggled to make one authentic gesture ...
— Isadora Duncan
Take a favorite trick of yours and write a 'gestures script' how could you improve clarity [using gestures].
— Roberto Giobbi
Women can be vivacious. We are allowed more varieties of facial expression and gestures. Men must be rocklike.
— Gloria Steinem
We are going to have to stop penalising people for making that most human of gestures- mistake
— Jeremy Clarkson
But the Indians gesture touched me. It was nothing, but it was everthing. It took so little to mane a difference.
— Ingrid Betancourt
Decorative gestures add romance to a life.
— Don DeLillo
I'm the master of distractions. A couple of hand gestures and BAM! I'll pull the underwear clean off your butt.
— Si Robertson
Thus drivers inching southward will see the phalanx of birds heading west as one spontaneous gesture.
— Rae Armantrout
Without the meditative background that is criticism, works become isolated gestures, historical accidents, soon forgotten.
— Milan Kundera
Gratefulness is the inner gesture of giving meaning to our life by receiving life as gift.
— David Steindl-Rast
Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.
— Samuel Beckett
The trees' bony fingers make spell-casting gestures in the wind as they pass.
— David Foster Wallace
Dr. Paul Ekman is a great guy... studying micro-expressions... gestures... and many other facial expression... body movements....
— Deyth Banger
I like to use research to enlarge the poem. And sometimes a rhetorical or syntactical gesture stitches the poem along.
— Alison Hawthorne Deming
When men attempt bold gestures, generally it's considered romantic. When women do it, it's often considered desperate or psycho.
— Sarah Jessica Parker
The formal artistic gesture is already expressed in the act of taking the photograph.
— Luigi Ghirri
The gesture with which one generation guards the next is the movement, and the only time we see it clearly, of life itself.
— Storm Jameson
But I also know that sometimes Adam needs to do things the dramatic way. He is fond of the Grand Gesture
— Gayle Forman
Seek opportunities to show you care. The smallest gestures often make the biggest difference.
— John Wooden
Sometimes, I wondered if I might speed up his words by grabbing his wrists and finishing his gestures for him.
— Erik Bundy
I don't make big grand gestures, generally.
— Katherine Heigl
By Refusing to accept things, because they do not please us,we spend most of our lives making meaningless gestures Somewhere Next Door to Reality.
— ZBS Foundation
Could love be not grand gestures or empty vows, not promises meant to be broken, but instead a paper trail of forgiveness?
— Jodi Picoult
He was crying in there, making woman gestures.
— Mike Tyson
The extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation.
— Annie Dillard
Nothing could have been more imprudent or more natural than this reply. It reflected the ecstasy inspired by great crises.
— Machado De Assis
On Creating - What we crave, what we want to see in others eyes, is that servile expression, an unconcealed infatuation with our gestures.
— Emile M. Cioran
Malcolm gestures in the vague direction of ugly sad lonely crap, which as it happens is toward Times Square.
— Chris Pavone
Predator and prey move in silent gestures, on the seductive dance of death, in the shadows cast by the vultures of the night.
— Luis Marques
Surely the gestures of murmuring priests must contain some deep meaning
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Simple, common gestures can also unconsciously influence our thoughts and feelings.
— Daniel Kahneman
Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men.
— Theodor Adorno
We question ourselves through others by way of stories, advice, and gestures; and we receive our answers form listening to others reactions
— Jeremy Aldana
If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Generous gestures yield the most when that isn't their purpose.
— Malcolm Forbes
Sometimes those silent gestures mean the most. They're the glue that holds our fragile lives together.
— H.M. Ward
She didn't realize how beguiling she was in her innocent gestures.
— Melanie Dickerson
Personality is a series of unbroken gestures.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Turning your nose up at a genuine and sincere gesture of hospitality is no way to travel or to make friends around the world.
— Anthony Bourdain
All the gestures of children are graceful; the reign of distortion and unnatural attitudes commences with the introduction of the dancing master.
— Joshua Reynolds
Grand gestures may be dramatic, but they're rarely practical.
— Steven Harper
Wealth creeps under your epidermis like poison. It invades your posture, your gestures, the way you carry yourself.
— L.S. Hilton
They are poets of gesture.
— George Balanchine
It's disgusting. On trains, the number of those people doing that strange masturbation-like gesture is multiplying.
— Hayao Miyazaki
Indeed time has that ultimate capacity to render the passions of the past when recalled in the present as no more than grandiloquent gestures.
— F. Sionil Jose
Skirts of the unknown, and the white men rushing out of a tumble-down hovel, with great gestures
— Joseph Conrad
It's hard enough to be a heterosexual playing gay and not having the gay gestures.
— Christopher Sieber
I have trained myself to pull away from all gestures of affection, because [my parents] raised me to take them seriously.
— Veronica Roth
I was hittin' him with body punches and I hurt him. Actually he was cryin' in there, makin' woman gestures like
— Mike Tyson
Conan Doyle is amazing in the way he has Watson describe Sherlock's posture, mood swings, his hand gestures, and so forth in the novels.
— Benedict Cumberbatch
You continue making the gestures commanded by existence for many reasons, the first of which is habit.
— Albert Camus
...it was a pride that transcended the emptiness of gestures
— Cassandra Clare
Nurturing is not complex. It's simply being tuned in to the thing or person before you and offering small gestures toward what it needs at that time.
— Mary Anne Radmacher
Morality's not practical. Morality's a gesture. A complicated gesture learnt from books.
— Robert Bolt
Psychology of small things rules.
— Stefan Fatsis
I think men know to seduce women though words and conversation and nice gestures. That's much sexier than when a man uses muscle.
— Donatella Versace
Even small gestures of kindness have the potential to reap enormous rewards. Only the shortsighted man believes otherwise.
— Erika Johansen
The different tempos and yeah, it's cadence. It's the way she moves through space, it's gestures.
— Vera Farmiga
Most full lives are filled with empty gestures.
— Carolyn Heilbrun
For such gestures one falls hopelessly in love for a lifetime
— Virginia Woolf
Maybe, it is not the thorn on the rose that we should see, but the beauty of the gesture.
— Shannon L. Alder
It was one of the late Conservative Government's gestures towards agriculture
graceful as a kiss, and of about as much use. — Sheila Kaye-Smith
graceful as a kiss, and of about as much use. — Sheila Kaye-Smith
In the distance, the gestures of animals look human, the gestures of human beings bestial.
— Malcolm De Chazal
You pierce me with a look, a word, a gesture. And yet those same weapons could shield me from hurt if you so choose.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
I'll be honest, I felt an urge to squeeze him like a kitten and that led to the gesture I made. There was nothing behind it really.
— Vladimir Putin
It's not about grand gestures.It's not about accolades.It's not about the world.It's about you.
— K.J. Kilton