108 Quotes About Gestures

In the politics of the everyday, our words and gestures, or their absence, count very much.

It's not about grand gestures.It's not about accolades.It's not about the world.It's about you.

Bacamarte evidenced neither vanity nor modesty; he listened in silence, as impassive as a stone god.

The man tilted back his head, raised his eyebrows, cast his eyes to heaven, pouted his lips and said, "Tch!""That performance," said the chief, "is the Cypriot way of saying 'No'....

London goes beyond any boundary or convention.It contains every wish or word ever spoken, every action or gesture ever made, every harsh or noble statement ever expressed. It is illimitable. It is Infinite London.

You can't get at the thing itself, the real nature of the sitter, by stripping away the surface. You can only get beyond the surface by working with the surface. All that you can do is manipulate that surface-gesture, costume, expression-radically and correctly.

Turning your nose up at a genuine and sincere gesture of hospitality is no way to travel or to make friends around the world.

It may be meaningless, but at least it's a gesture.

And I must bear What is ordained with patience, being aware Necessity doth front the universe With an invincible gesture.