Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rebecca West

International relationships are preordained to be clumsy gestures based on imperfect knowledge.

Yehudi Menuhin

We are full of rhythms . . . our pulse, our gestures, our digestive tracts, the lunar and seasonal cycles.

Carolyn Heilbrun

Most full lives are filled with empty gestures.

Terry Tempest Williams

The act of civil disobedience is the act of taking our anger and turning it into sacred rage. It is a personal and collective gesture of resistance and insistance.

Lee J. Cobb

If this gesture was the way of getting out of the penitentiary, Id do it.

Katherine Heigl

I don't make big grand gestures, generally.

Bernhard Schlink

It is hard for me to imagine that I felt good about behaving like that. I also remember that the smallest gesture of affection would bring a lump to my throat, whether it was directed at me or at someone else. Sometimes all it took was a scene in a movie. This juxtaposition of callousness and extreme sensitivity seemed suspicious even to me.

Sam Shepard

Sometimes in someone's gestures you can notice how a parent is somehow inhabiting that person without there being any awareness of that. Sometimes you can look at your hand and see your father.

Craig Newmark

Sometimes a slow gradual approach does more good than a large gesture.

Drew Carey

Everybody in Hollywood loves symbolic gestures.

Donnie Yen

A period film, where you, for example, where you have a traditional wardrobes, you are bound to act a certain way. But in a modern film, a lot of body gesture.

Susan Choi

The most shocking act, closely examined, is just a louder version of some habitual gesture.

Storm Jameson

The gesture with which one generation guards the next is the movement, and the only time we see it clearly, of life itself.

Susan Sullivan

If you're cast right you can actually just let yourself go because all your gestures will be right, all your intonations will be right because you just somewhere understand who this person is.

Tanith Lee

He sat by her, watching every gesture she made, as if he would paint her portrait afterward.

Shahzia Sikander

In the end, the gesture of painting becomes almost meditative, like a ritual.

Michael Eisner

A brand is a living entity-and it is enriched or undermined cumulatively over time, the product of a thousand small gestures.

Laura Lippman

how magnanimous was a gesture if one were constantly aware of its magnanimity?

John Updike

But it seems to me that once you begin a gesture it's fatal not to go through with it.

Oscar Wilde

Jack: Actually, I was found. Lady Bracknell: Found? Jack: Uh, yes, I was in... a handbag. Lady Bracknell: A handbag? Jack: Yes, it was... [makes gestures] Jack: an ordinary handbag.

Garth Stein

Gestures are all that I have; sometimes they must be grand in nature.

Fernando Pessoa

Every gesture is a revolutionary act.

Christian Morgenstern

My method is to find a word with a gesture.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.

Franz Kafka

Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.

Isadora Duncan

All my life I have struggled to make one authentic gesture....

Jared Padalecki

Don't underestimate your own strength. To persevere. To make it through the most difficult of times. And, JUST as importantly, don't underestimate your ability to help someone ELSE during THEIR most difficult times. Sometimes all it takes is a kind word, or gesture, to help someone make it through their day.

Graham Greene

I had committed myself: without love I'd have to go through the gestures of love.

Ian Mcewan

A story lives transformed by a gesture not made or a word not spoken

Mike Wallace

If he's upset, I'm sorry for it. He had plenty of gestures for me.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Remember that a gesture of friendship, no matter how small, is always appreciated.