Gestures quotes
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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."
"Jack: Actually, I was found. Lady Bracknell: Found? Jack: Uh, yes, I was in... a handbag. Lady Bracknell: A handbag? Jack: Yes, it was... [makes gestures] Jack: an ordinary handbag."
"The first several years of my life were used to upload incredible amounts of fear, and I just became afraid of everything. I was afraid of my parents, afraid of my classmates, afraid of the streets of Washington, D.C. I would flinch at every gesture."
"Without the meditative background that is criticism, works become isolated gestures, historical accidents, soon forgotten."
"And I must bear What is ordained with patience, being aware Necessity doth front the universe With an invincible gesture."
"All the dancer's gestures are signs of things, and the dance called rational, because it aptly signifies and displays something over and above the pleasure of the senses."
"Oh longing for places that were not Cherished enough in that fleeting hour How I long to make good from afar The forgotten gesture, the additional act."
"International relationships are preordained to be clumsy gestures based on imperfect knowledge."
"You know about a person who deeply interests you more than you can be told. A look, a gesture, an act, which to everybody else is insignificant tells you more about that one than words can."
"I love words very much. I've always loved to talk, and I've always love words — the words that rest in your mouth, what words mean and how you taste them and so on. And for me the spoken word can be used almost as a gesture."
"He was crying in there, making woman gestures."
"It's still so rare for anyone to be personally acknowledged by a brand that the impact of such a simple, polite gesture on a customer's buying habits could be huge."
"Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith."
"Prayer is in all things, in all gestures."
"Turning your nose up at a genuine and sincere gesture of hospitality is no way to travel or to make friends around the world."
"He sat by her, watching every gesture she made, as if he would paint her portrait afterward."
"It is impossible to foretell the future with any degree of accuracy, that it is impossible to rehearse life. A fault in the scenery, a face in the audience, an interruption of the audience on to the stage, and all our carefully planned gesture mean nothing, or mean too much."
"Major brands don't know what to do with happy customers. They make it hard for customers to say thanks and way too often companies don't celebrate and embrace customers' positive gestures."
"Being shown a gesture of love is like being offered a portion of God."
"He found that it was easy to make a heroic gesture, but hard to abide by its results."
