62 Gesture Quotes for You to Enjoy

Before they got vengeful, conservatives had some useful points to make about welfare. Government 'help' is too often guilt-assuaging gesture. It creates layers of wasteful bureaucracy. Too much help of the wrong sort creates a culture of dependency that swamps our ability to provide. Donella Meadows

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Every Valentine's Day, I pretend I don't care. Like many of us, I say I don't want the flowers or chocolates or a homemade card. How cheesy. I pretend that it's over-the-top to want the person you like to make you a ridiculously nice dinner, or do some showy gesture, ala John Cusack with the boombox in 'Say Anything.' Elizabeth Flock

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I wish I were shyly, quietly intriguing, like Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, like someone French and fashionable who knows how to twirl her ladylike locks just so and walk adroitly on kitten heels, who is all gesture and whisper - but I am unfortunately forward and forthright: When I am interested in a man, he absolutely knows it. Elizabeth Wurtzel

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I have the ability to sing with emotion and feeling, but if you say I sound like Billie Holiday, that's cool. Let's look at who Billie was: she was this person, this singer, this beautiful diva who could move the audience with the slightest gesture of her hand. Erykah Badu

Beautiful You Feeling Gesture Say Slightest Ability Diva Could Emotion Like Look Sing Singer She Audience Sound Hand Person Move Holiday Billie Holiday Who Cool Her

John Cheever was the first writer I ever read who sort of had that similar sensation that, you know, life is nasty, miserable, brutish and short, but that occasionally, there's a certain river of light, a kind word, a telling gesture that sort of illuminates something. Ethan Canin

Life You Light Word Miserable First Gesture Kind Telling Kind Word John Similar Something Writer River Had Know Occasionally Read Sort Nasty Short Sensation Certain Who Illuminates Ever

The retrospective glance is a relatively easy gesture for us to make. George Crumb

Gesture Relatively Easy Glance Make Retrospective Us

You can gesture at the transnational problem of Islamist terrorism all you like, but it's just hot air unless you invest in proper security on the ground in your own country, with the right safeguards to civil liberties. Giles Foden

It has taken me years of struggle, hard work and research to learn to make one simple gesture, and I know enough about the art of writing to realize that it would take as many years of concentrated effort to write one simple, beautiful sentence. Isadora Duncan

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Great cataclysmic things can go by and neither the orchestra nor the conductor are under the delusion that whether they make this or that gesture is going to be the deciding factor in how it comes out. James Levine

Great Gesture Out Neither Factor Cataclysmic Delusion Make How Go Nor Conductor Going Orchestra Deciding Whether Things

Why do people always gesture with their hands when they talk on the phone? Jonathan Carroll

People Phone Gesture Talk Always Hands Why

It's one of the most liberating things I experience in writing - letting yourself get rid of a gesture or character or plot point that always nagged, even if you couldn't admit to yourself that it did. Leslie Jamison

Character You Experience Yourself Writing Gesture Liberating Plot Admit Point Most Always Get Did Rid Even Letting Things

Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is. Malcolm Arnold

Friendship Music Communication People Gesture Strongest Social Act Among

I became a librarian at the Sainte-Genevieve Library in Paris. I made this gesture to rid myself of a certain milieu, a certain attitude, to have a clean conscience, but also to make a living. I was twenty-five. I had been told that one must make a living, and I believed it. Marcel Duchamp

For me, the 'Three Stoppages' was a first gesture liberating me from the past. Marcel Duchamp

Me Three First Past Gesture Liberating

I encourage the translators of my books to take as much license as they feel that they need. This is not quite the heroic gesture it might seem, because I've learned, from working with translators over the years, that the original novel is, in a way, a translation itself. Michael Cunningham

Sometimes when we think about femininity, we think also fragile. But I think you can be feminine and very strong. I think make-up goes with that femininity. I think it's a natural gesture for women and one they do more for themselves than for others. Monica Bellucci

You Women Natural Strong Sometimes Gesture Think Others About More Also Feminine Femininity Very Than Goes Themselves Fragile

I am different because I have better schooling, better understanding of the line, gesture, how feet working, positions. They taught me modern things... and I wanted to give what I had: my schooling. Natalia Makarova

Much to my surprise, not a moment have I been made to feel, 'Alright, a woman - probably the prime minister wanted to make a token gesture.' The ease with which people have taken this thought of a woman minister has been a great strength for me and has made my job far easier. Nirmala Sitharaman

Strength Great Me Woman People Job Thought Made Gesture Ease Easier Has-Been Minister Taken Feel Prime Prime Minister Alright Make Surprise Been Wanted Which Far Much Token Moment

I remember doing this little physical gesture of holding up my foot and having my foot wave around while I held my ankle. It got a big laugh, and when people started laughing, it dumped some chemicals on my brain. It just felt so good. Paul Rust

Good People Remember Big Gesture Holding Wave Laugh Laughing Physical Some Having Foot Ankle Around Felt Got Chemicals Doing Brain Dumped Up Just While Little Held Started

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