Top 389 Gestures Quotes & Sayings

Most full lives are filled with empty gestures.

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

Trump appears to some as too simulated, too much a spectacle. But all authorized politics is spectacle. He just does it in a different style. It's not conservative, its post-liberal. Rather than make hypocritical gestures towards the just, the good and the true, it's about making hyperbolic gestures about their absence.

I don't believe in materialistic gifts and grand gestures.

I try to do romantic gestures all the time.

How do our lives ravel out into the no-wind, no-sound, the weary gestures wearily recapitulant: echoes of old compulsions with no-hand on no-string: in sunset we fall into furious attitudes, dead gestures of dolls.

One must not mix up prudence with gestures of servility.

..he made me understand something very important. Whether because I am a Latin, or because I am a neurotic, I have a need of gestures. I am myself expressive, demonstrative; every feeling I have takes on expression: words, gestures, signs, letters, articulateness or action. I need this in others.

The different tempos and yeah, it's cadence. It's the way she moves through space, it's gestures.

Underlings look up to the boss for behavioral cues, subtle signs, hints and gestures.

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

The more he identifies with the dominant images of need, the less he understands his own life and his own desires. The spectacle’s estrangement from the acting subject is expressed by the fact that the individual’s gestures are no longer his own; they are the gestures of someone else who represents them to him.

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

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

I really love to make sweeping historical gestures that are like little illustrations of novels.

He was crying in there, making woman gestures.

Businesses have to make gestures that go beyond words. Persuasion no longer works.

The most romantic things are very small, kind gestures from people you love.

Gentleness in the gait is what simplicity is in the dress. Violent gestures or quick movements inspire involuntary disrespect.

When you talk about objects, one other thing automatically comes attached to that thing, and that is gestures: how we manipulate these objects, how we use these objects in everyday life. We use gestures not only to interact with these objects, but we also use them to interact with each other.

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

On Creating — What we crave, what we want to see in others eyes, is that servile expression, an unconcealed infatuation with our gestures.

There is something in the micro-gestures in Australia that I just understand. It's something I grew up with - how people interact, the slight differences in language and gestures, that I just understand and it puts me at ease.

When we speak, in gestures or signs, we fashion a real object in the world; the gesture is seen, the words and the song are heard. The arts are simply a kind of writing, which, in one way or another, fixes words or gestures, and gives body to the invisible.

The spirit listens only when the speaker speaks in gestures. And gestures do not mean signs or body movements, but acts of true abandon, acts of largesse, of humor. As a gesture to the spirit, warriors bring out the best of themselves and silently offer it to the abstract.

Gestures come first! Before we're consciously aware of our thoughts, we start to gesture. Pay attention to your gestures, and others', and you can become a more powerful communicator.

I kick kittens. I made rude gestures at nuns.

I'm attracted to male gestures and sexuality.

Because beyond their practical function, all gestures have a meaning that exceeds the intention of those who make them; when people in bathing suits fling themselves into the water, it is joy itself that shows in the gesture, notwithstanding any sadness the divers may actually feel. When someone jumps into the water fully clothed, it is another thing entirely: the only person who jumps into the water fully clothed is a person trying to drown; and a person trying to drown does not dive headfirst; he lets himself fall: thus speaks the immemorial language of gestures.

When making documentaries, the most important thing I learned was to listen, observe gestures and facial expressions.

Small gestures can have a big impact.

Sincerity is romantic. I don't think you need gestures.

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

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

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

It was one of the late Conservative Government's gestures towards agriculture -- graceful as a kiss, and of about as much use.

I like to read people's gestures and implement them into my acting.

Big romantic gestures are only as strong as the relationships they happen in.

Through the history of our nation, Americans have always extended their hands in gestures of assistance.

I don't need to make political gestures or take steps to get re-elected.

Politicians would only move beyond gestures once there was a critical mass of informed citizens.

Women can be vivacious. We are allowed more varieties of facial expression and gestures. Men must be rocklike.

I believe what matters are facts and behaviours in our daily life rather than formal gestures.

In the distance, the gestures of animals look human, the gestures of human beings bestial.

If our planet has seen some eighty billion people it is difficult to suppose hat every individual has had his or her own repertory of gestures. Arithmetically, it is simply impossible. Without the slightest doubt, there are far fewer gestures in the world than there are individuals. That finding leads us to a shocking conclusion: a gesture is more individual than an individual. We could put it in the form of an aphorism: many people, few gestures.

There are some gestures, of course, that you can only interpret one way, but no one has ever seen those kinds of gestures directed by Obama at me or by me at Obama, and I hope that never happens. Everything else is fantasy.

I don't make big grand gestures, generally.

I developed a heel persona and everything about Maryse was presentation, facials, gestures.

Arrogance is in everything I do. It is in my gestures, the harshness of my voice, in the glow of my gaze, in my sinewy, tormented face.

Prayer is in all things, in all gestures.

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

My mom and I have the exact same mannerisms - the way we talk and the gestures that we made.

The smallest gestures you do can sometimes carry the most weight.

Everybody in Hollywood loves symbolic gestures.

All the bystanders at an event worthy of note adopt various gestures of admiration when contemplating the occurrence.

Take a favorite trick of yours and write a 'gestures script' how could you improve clarity [using gestures].

Awkward gestures, clumsy gestures, fist pumps. I just do whatever I feel like is right in the moment. If I need to be hyped, I'm hyped. If I need to talk to myself, I talk to myself. Whatever it takes to win, I'm going to do it.

You know a relationship has deteriorated past the point of salvage when one person detests another's gestures.

Generous gestures yield the most when that isn't their purpose.

Seek opportunities to show you care. The smallest gestures often make the biggest difference.