(83 quotes found)
“You know about a person who deeply interests you more than you can be told. A look, a gesture, an act, which to everybody else is insignificant tells you more about that one than words can.”
Henry David Thoreau
“It's a rather rude gesture, but at least it's clear what you mean.”
Katharine Hepburn
“Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.”
Henri Matisse
“The Sugarplum Fairy herself could have made no grander gesture.”
Shana Alexander
“If you want a symbolic gesture, don't burn the flag; wash it.”
Norman Thomas
“I appreciated the gesture,”
Kweisi Mfume
“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
“To the sound itself the conductor adds the italics and punctuation of gesture, of strained arms, of startling tautness of the shoulders, of brisk nod, of hands flung apart in some wild appeal to the universe.”
Christopher Andreae
“The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which have become permanent”
Marcel Proust
“Hitler is a rotten speaker: raucous in voice, graceless in gesture, and loose in the composition of his speeches. It is not "personal magnetism" that makes him a power with the young -- the older are mostly driven to his gatherings -- but a belief in his genius that is artificially created by years of the most elaborate and most persistent boosting.”
Joseph McCabe
