Quotes with gestures

  • The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit made permanent. Nature, like the destruction of Pompeii, like the metamorphosis of a nymph into a tree, has arrested us in an accustomed movement.

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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Adrian Lyne And I think you understand a little bit more why she falls for him. In a way, watching the French do anything is a little more fun because their gestures are different. And in that way, they make everything interesting.
    Adrian Lyne
    English film director, writer and producer (1941 - )
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  • Isadora Duncan I had learned to have a perfect nausea for the theatre: the continual repetition of the same words and the same gestures, night after night, and the caprices, the way of looking at life, and the entire rigmarole disgusted me.
    Isadora Duncan
    American Dancer (1877 - 1927)
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  • Augustus Baldwin Longstreet Language cannot describe the scene that followed; the shouts, oaths, frantic gestures, taunts, replies, and little fights; and therefore I shall not attempt it.
    Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
    American lawyer, minister, educator, and humorist (1790 - 1870)
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  • F. Scott Fitzgerald Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    American writer (1896 - 1940)
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  • Marcel Proust The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit made permanent. Nature, like the destruction of Pompeii, like the metamorphosis of a nymph into a tree, has arrested us in an accustomed movement.
    Marcel Proust
    French writer and critic (1871 - 1922)
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  • Ben Okri The higher the artist, the fewer the gestures. The fewer the tools, the greater the imagination. The greater the will, the greater the secret failure.
    Ben Okri
    Nigerian poet and novelist (1959 - )
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  • C. Wright Mills When white-collar people get jobs, they sell not only their time and energy, but their personalities as well. They sell by the week, or month, their smiles and their kindly gestures, and they must practice that prompt repression of resentment and aggression.
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • Milan Kundera Without the meditative background that is criticism, works become isolated gestures, historical accidents, soon forgotten.
    Milan Kundera
    Tsjech writer and criticus (1929 - 2023)
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  • Alfred E. Smith Be simple in words, manners, and gestures. Amuse as well as instruct. If you can make a man laugh, you can make him think and make him like and believe you.
    Alfred E. Smith
    American politician (1873 - 1944)
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