#gesture

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Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.


F. Scott Fitzgerald


#personality #series #successful #unbroken

I think it's important to do a good job and not to feel that you've got to make grand gestures, but just to get on and deliver.


Theresa May


#feel #gestures #get #good #good job

Our cautious ancestors, when yawning, blocked the way to the entrance of evil spirits by putting their hands before their mouths. We find a reason for the gesture in the delicacy of manner which forbids an indecent exposure.


George H. Mead


#before #blocked #cautious #delicacy #entrance

A poem in form still has to have voice, gesture, a sense of discovery, a metaphoric connection, as any poetry does.


Robert Morgan


#connection #discovery #does #form #gesture

All the gestures of children are graceful; the reign of distortion and unnatural attitudes commences with the introduction of the dancing master.


Joshua Reynolds


#children #commences #dancing #distortion #gestures

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

Without the meditative background that is criticism, works become isolated gestures, historical accidents, soon forgotten.


Milan Kundera


#background #become #criticism #forgotten #gestures

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