108 Quotes About Gestures

  • Author Rex Reed
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    F For Fake is a talentless concoction of unparalleled ineptitude... It would have been a more generous gesture to show a retrospective of old Welles films rather than remind everyone of how low his ability as a filmmaker has plummeted.

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  • Author Rick Riordan
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    Sure, sis!' Then he raised his hands in a stop everything gesture. 'I feel a haiku coming on.

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  • Author William Rehnquist
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    The Constitution requires that Congress treat similarly situated persons similarly, not that it engages in gestures of superficial equality.

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  • Author Bernhard Schlink
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    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.

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  • Author Garth Stein
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    Can we not will ourselves to achieve the impossible? Can we not use the power of our life force to change something: one small thing, one insignificant moment, one breath, one gesture? Is there nothing we can do to change what is around us?

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  • Author Sam Shepard
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    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.

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