Gestures Quotes

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

Rather, Listen, Mankind

Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.
Francois Rabelais

Love, Words, Attractive

When men attempt bold gestures, generally it's considered romantic. When women do it, it's often considered desperate or psycho.
Sarah Jessica Parker

Women, Men, Romantic

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Successful, Series, Unbroken

There is a time for risky love. There is a time for extravagant gestures. There is a time to pour out your affections on one you love. And when the time comes - seize it, don't miss it.
Max Lucado

Love, Time, Miss

Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men.
Theodor Adorno

Men, Technology, Making

I can't do the same thing every night, the same gestures... it's like putting on dirty panties every day.
Brigitte Bardot

Night, Same, Dirty

Small gestures can have a big impact.
Julianna Margulies

Small, Big, Impact

Usually I'm frustrated when I look at my films and I don't believe that I've made a real transformation beyond my usual sets of gestures and expressions. I still have this nagging feeling that it's me, that I didn't create a unique character.
Helena Bonham Carter

Character, Feeling, Real

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

Knowledge, Based, Imperfect

I don't make big grand gestures, generally.
Katherine Heigl

Big, Grand, Generally

Without the meditative background that is criticism, works become isolated gestures, historical accidents, soon forgotten.
Milan Kundera

Become, Criticism, Soon

We can't equate spending on veterans with spending on defense. Our strength is not just in the size of our defense budget, but in the size of our hearts, in the size of our gratitude for their sacrifice. And that's not just measured in words or gestures.
Jennifer Granholm

Strength, Gratitude, Words

I think it's important to do a good job and not to feel that you've got to make grand gestures, but just to get on and deliver.
Theresa May

Good, Job, Important

I quite like the drama of an encore. I think an encore is for those artists who are inclined to do dramatic gestures, and I certainly would say I am inclined towards them.
Florence Welch

Quite, Artists, Drama

Everybody in Hollywood loves symbolic gestures.
Drew Carey

Everybody, Hollywood, Loves

The higher the artist, the fewer the gestures. The fewer the tools, the greater the imagination. The greater the will, the greater the secret failure.
Ben Okri

Failure, Secret, Artist

Our strength is not just in the size of our defense budget, but in the size of our hearts, in the size of our gratitude for their sacrifice. And that's not just measured in words or gestures.
Jennifer M. Granholm

Strength, Gratitude, Words

There is no relationship between the gestures and what an orchestra will do.
James Levine

Between, Orchestra

The internet is a wild land with its own games, languages and gestures through which we are starting to share common feelings.
Ai Weiwei

Feelings, Through, Games

All the gestures of children are graceful; the reign of distortion and unnatural attitudes commences with the introduction of the dancing master.
Joshua Reynolds

Children, Dancing, Master

I do think grand gestures are a hit and miss, especially for girls.
Carly Rae Jepsen

Miss, Hit, Grand

Remembering that man is indeed the microcosm, the universe in miniature, the Divine Dance of the future should be able to convey with its slightest gestures some significance of the universe.
Ruth St. Denis

Future, Dance, Able

Looking ahead, future generations may learn their social skills from robots in the first place. The cute yellow Keepon robot from Carnegie Mellon University has shown the ability to facilitate social interactions with autistic children. Morphy at the University of Washington happily teaches gestures to children by demonstration.
Daniel H. Wilson

Future, Children, May

There's nothing more frustrating than seeing a conductor say, 'Play softer,' as they're waving their hands in huge gestures.
Joshua Bell

Nothing, Play, Hands

And I think you understand a little bit more why she falls for him. In a way, watching the French do anything is a little more fun because their gestures are different. And in that way, they make everything interesting.
Adrian Lyne

Fun, Everything, Him

As much preparation as I had made for the old man Salieri, gestures and so on, the fact is after sitting for hours, your movements are kind of slow.
F. Murray Abraham

Made, After, Old

Let us lose none of their humble words, let us note their slightest gestures, and tell me, tell me that we will think of them together, now and later, when we realise the misery of the times and the magnitude of their sacrifice.
Georges Duhamel

Humble, Words, Together

Like, every couple of months you read, they rewrite, you come back in, they've animated more stuff - they usually videotape you while you're reading it - so they'll incorporate some gestures and some facial expressions into it.
John Goodman

While, Read, Reading

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

Simple, Laugh, Words

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