#gesture

When the music is physically demanding, I want to make sure that the effort involved is put across to the audience through physical gesture. ↗

— Leila Josefowicz

#audience #demanding #effort #gesture #i

Every word, facial expression, gesture, or action on the part of a parent gives the child some message about self-worth. It is sad that so many parents don't realize what messages they are sending. ↗

— Virginia Satir

#action #child #every #expression #facial

I was worried in the '80s that the best abstract painting had become obsessed with materiality, and painterly gestures and materiality were up against the wall. ↗

— Frank Stella

#against #become #best #gestures #had

If you want a symbolic gesture, don't burn the flag; wash it. ↗

— Norman Thomas

#flag #gesture #symbolic #want #wash

They'd never been lovers, of course, not in the physical sense. But they'd been lovers as most of us manage, loving through expressions and gestures and the palm set softly upon the bruise at the necessary moment. Lovers by inclination rather than by lust. Lovers, that is, by love. ↗

— Gregory Maguire

#gestures #love #lovers #lust #love

You never know, until it happens, what you will owe the dead. ↗

— Zadie Smith

#dying #gesture #death

The fate of peoples is made like this, two men in small rooms. Forget the coronations, the conclaves of cardinals, the pomp and processions. This is how the world changes: a counter pushed across a table, a pen stroke that alters the force of a phrase, a woman's sigh as she passes and leaves on the air a trail of orange flower or rose water; her hand pulling close the bed curtain, the discreet sigh of flesh against flesh. ↗

— Hilary Mantel

#gestures #history #power #subtlety #tudors

I find that the middle finger is the universal signal of communication. I often use it to wave hello, point at someone, and convey my thoughts to deaf people. I used to use it to shake hands, but it kept getting broken. ↗

— Bauvard

#communicating #fingers #funny #gestures #hand-signals

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

— Jonathan Carroll

#gesture #hands #people #phone #talk

Usually I'm frustrated when I look at my films and I don't believe that I've made a real transformation beyond my usual sets of gestures and expressions. I still have this nagging feeling that it's me, that I didn't create a unique character. ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

#beyond #character #create #expressions #feeling