“ A gesture cannot be regarded as the expression of an individual, as his creation nor can it even be regarded as that person's instrument; on the contrary, it is gestures that use us as their instruments, as their bearers and incarnations. ”
- Milan Kundera- Copy
- 2K
“ 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. ”
- Roland Barthes- Copy
- 1K
“ A lot of people don't realize that depression is an illness. I don't wish it on anyone, but if they would know how it feels, I swear they would think twice before they just shrug it. ”
- Jonathan Davis- Copy
- 265
“ Whenever I go to bars in London, people send me over Cosmopolitans. It's a very sweet gesture, but I don't like them, so they just sit there. ”
- Kim Cattrall- Copy
- 1K
“ So what if I'm smokin' weed onstage and doing what I gotta do? It's not me shooting nobody, stabbing nobody, killing nobody. It's a peaceful gesture and they have to respect that and appreciate that. ”
- Snoop Dogg- Copy
- 568
“ 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- Copy
- 762
“ It's a rather rude gesture, but at least it's clear what you mean. ”
- Katharine Hepburn- Copy
- 786
“ These hands which stretch out, implore, beg, then rise to the head in a gesture of calamity. ”
- Frederick Leboyer- Copy
- 1.3K
“ 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. ”
- George Leigh Mallory- Copy
- 3.7K
“ Nor do they trust their tongue alone, but speak a language of their own; can read a nod, a shrug, a look, far better than a printed book; convey a libel in a frown, and wink a reputation down. ”
- Jonathan Swift- Copy
- 2.3K
“ We must learn to accept life and to accept ourselves… with a shrug and a smile… because it's all we've got. ”
- Harvey Mindess- Copy
- 237
“ If I said something like that, I would be pilloried. There is a line somewhere. Are the newspapers of the world just going to shrug it off when he says something like that? ”
- Haley Barbour- Copy
- 2.6K
“ All feelings have their distinct tone of voice, gestures and looks; and it is this harmony, as it is good or bad, and pleasant or unpleasant, which makes people agreeable or disagreeable. ”
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld- Copy
- 3.3K
“ 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. ”
- Alfred E. Smith- Copy
- 1.3K
“ Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons. ”
- Friedrich Nietzsche- Copy
- 3.8K
“ 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- Copy
- 1.7K
“ Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures. ”
- Francis Scott Fitzgerald- Copy
- 3K
“ The guy has baggy pants, flat feet, the most miserable, bedraggled-looking little bastard you ever saw; makes itchy gestures as though he's got crabs under his arms — but he's funny. ”
- Sterling Ford- Copy
- 305
“ Through the history of our nation, Americans have always extended their hands in gestures of assistance. ”
- Ronald Reagan- Copy
- 1.6K
“ Without the meditative background that is criticism, works become isolated gestures, historical accidents, soon forgotten. ”
- Milan Kundera- Copy
- 3.6K
“ Words represent your intellect. The sound, gesture and movement represent your feelings. ”
- Patricia Fripp- Copy
- 288
“ 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. ”
- Paul Hogan- Copy
- 1.2K
“ Another thing that worried me… was the array of devout exercises that was seen by each group as having a unique and a divine validity. That is, people who were loyalists of any form of religious orthodoxy assumed that their set of gestures, and their set alone, represented true love for God. ”
- Thomas Howard- Copy
- 2.1K
“ 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- Copy
- 1.7K
“ I have seen manners that make a similar impression with personal beauty; that give the like exhilaration, and refine us like that; and, in memorable experiences, they are suddenly better than beauty, and make that superfluous and ugly. But they must be marked by fine perception, the acquaintance with real beauty… ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
- 947
“ Praise her but for this her without-door form — Which on my faith deserves high speech — and straight The shrug, the hum or ha, these pretty brands That calumny doth use — O, I am out, That mercy does, for calumny will sear Virtue itself — these shrugs, these hums and ha's, When you have said she's goodly, come between Ere you can say she's honest. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 3.2K
“ INAUSPICIOUSLY, adv. In an unpromising manner, the auspices being unfavorable. Among the Romans it was customary before undertaking any important action or enterprise to obtain from the augurs, or state prophets, some hint of its probable outcome; and one of their favorite and most trustworthy modes of divination consisted in observing the flight of birds — the omens thence derived being called auspices… ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
- 1.1K
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