Top 1200 Small Gestures Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

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

You've heard the phrase 'There are no small roles, just small actors?' Well, I kind of disagree. There are small roles, but when you get a lot of them in a row, you can become a pretty successful actress, and that's what I've done.

The Hobbits are just rustic English people, made small in size because it reflects the generally small reach of their imagination - not the small reach of their courage or latent power.

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

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

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

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

As a member of the House Committee on Small Business and because of my own experience as a small business owner, I am appreciative of the impact these small businesses have on our local economies.

The first view of the Earth is magical. It is a very overpowering realization that the Earth is so small. It affected me. I could not get over the notion that in such a small planet, with such a small ribbon of life, so much goes on. It is as if the whole place is sacred.

Outcomes rarely turn on grand gestures or the art of the deal, but on whether you've sent someone a thank-you note.

You know, I like to think that I will subscribe very much to the core Republican principles of small government. Making a small number of rules and getting out of the way. Keeping taxes low. Creating an environment for small businesses to grow and thrive.

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

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

Best advice, bro: Think big. Don't think small. If you think small, then you're going to stay small. Think (about) the broad scope.

Fiction is about small ambition, small failed ambition, small disappointed hope.

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

They have assumed the names and gestures of their enemies, but have held on to their own, secret souls; and in this there is a resistance and an overcoming, a long outwaiting.

Is courage just the awareness that gestures, journeys, lives have intrinsic shape, and must, one way or another, be completed?

I honestly can't think of many more truly romantic gestures than a really well-thought-through prenuptial agreement.

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

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

No matter how you decide to spend a little more time on your gestures of giving, the point is just quite simply that you do.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'S21' was a film about corporeal memory and how the same gestures repeated many times years earlier can be reawakened.

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

A small win is a concrete, complete, implemented outcome of moderate importance. By itself, one small win may seem unimportant. A series of wins at small but significant tasks, however, reveals a pattern that may attract allies, deter opponents, and lower resistance to subsequent proposals. Small wins are controllable opportunities that produce visible results.

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

I've found that small wins, small projects, small differences often make huge differences.

It may be only small injustice that the child can be exposed to; but the child is small, and its world is small, and its rocking-horse stands as many hands high, according to scale, as a big-boned Irish hunter.

Art is just a series of natural gestures. For God's sake, don't try to be artistic - all wild animals walk the same way.

As a former small business owner, I recognize both the important role small businesses play in our economy and the broad universe of challenges that small business owners face in trying to make ends meet.

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.

For a guy who is always banging on about the masculine virtues, Nixon had this remarkable proclivity for very dainty gestures.

My parents had a pub and each Sunday there was an accordionist. They have told me that when I was in my cradle, I already was imitating the gestures of the musician.

I know the microphones and cameras are on me. They're looking at my gestures and taking it and running with it because of things that have happened in the past. It's very unfair.

I saw finally the futility of all these gestures, that witchcraft is but a matter of focus-that one cann apply one's fierce and immeasurable energies to an act of choice.

Excesses are essentially gestures. It is easy to be extremely cruel, magnanimous, humble or self-sacrificing when we see ourselves as actors in a performance.

I think there has been a long-running notion in the West that Asia was a continent of people that were really conquerable. That people from Asia were weak, they were small in all ways - including physically small, geopolitically small, economically small - all of which are changing, of course.

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

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

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

All these are readers, and their gestures, their craft, the pleasure, the responsibility and the power they derive from reading, are common with mine. I am not alone.

No, I'm just a very naughty boy. I do all sorts of bad things. I kick kittens. I make rude gestures at nuns.

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

The minor choices we make are themselves a kind of vote. Our words and gestures, or their absence, count very much.

A chimpanzee who is really gearing up for a fight doesn't waste time with gestures but just goes ahead and attacks.

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

Many small businesses rely on small financial institutions, like credit unions and community banks, to meet their capital requirements. Without them, these small businesses would have to close their doors.

Often, organizations need bold, grand gestures to galvanize people towards a new mission or refocus their attention.

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

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.

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

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

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