Gesture Quotes
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If you want a symbolic gesture, don't burn the flag, wash it.
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...how magnanimous was a gesture if one were constantly aware of its magnanimity?
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Doubt is what allows a single gesture to have a heart.
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The revelation, if it comes at all, will come in a small fraction of a second with an unconscious gesture, a gleam of the eye, a brief lifting of the mask that all humans wear to conceal their innermost selves from the world. In that fleeting interval of opportunity the photographer must act or lose his prize.
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Sometimes a slow gradual approach does more good than a large gesture.
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I am the most spontaneous speaker in the world because every word, every gesture, and every retort has been carefully rehearsed.
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It was a good gesture. It was a peaceful resolution for our fans and L.A.
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...is a hollow gesture, because we don't want words. We want actions.
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No gesture is too small when done with gratitude.
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What could be more convincing, moreover, than the gesture of laying one's cards face up on the table?
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A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude.
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For the theatre one needs long arms... an artiste with short arms can never make a fine gesture.
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I actually started to think a lot about the difference between a creative gesture and a noncreative gesture. I decided that all gestures were creative. Because you always have to make a decision at some point.
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I wait with silent passion for one gesture one glance from you.
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We can be dry as dust, distracted and insensible to God's presence. Still we can pray...and if we make even the smallest gesture of availability he will be there.
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For one thing, I want gesture-any kind of gesture, all kinds of gesture-gentle or brutal, joyous or tragic; the gesture of space soaring, sinking, streaming, whirling; the gestures of light flowing or spurting through color. I see everything as possessing or possessed by gesture. I've often thought of my paintings as having an axis around which everything revolves.
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It's a rather rude gesture, but at least it's clear what you mean.
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Speech is not a means in the service of an external end. It contains its own rule of usage, ethics, and view of the world, as a gesture sometimes bears the whole truth about a man.
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Every important cultural gesture comes down to a morality, a model for human behavior concentrated into a gesture.
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We thought it was a fairly obvious out. I don't know why he did it or why people do, it's up to them really. But it was a nice gesture, I suppose.
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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.
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We must love men more than things, and I admire and weep more for the soldiers than for the churches which were only the recording of an heroic gesture which today is reenacted at every moment.
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I am dancing all the time. Every gesture, the body line of every pose, the way I get from place to place, the movement in the acting - none of it would be the way it is if I weren't a dancer.
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The language of power was exercised in more than just words. It was presence and thought; it was gesture and timing.
