#gesture

The internet is a wild land with its own games, languages and gestures through which we are starting to share common feelings. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#feelings #games #gestures #internet #land

As much preparation as I had made for the old man Salieri, gestures and so on, the fact is after sitting for hours, your movements are kind of slow. ↗

— F. Murray Abraham

#fact #gestures #had #hours #i

I've learned that in the theater the story is everything. Every lyric, every line and every musical gesture has to propel the journey of a given character or the overall plot. ↗

— Trey Anastasio

#every #everything #gesture #given #i

Thy base is so trivial, so passing a thing, let us try to support it by words, and so prolong its image and its play. ↗

— Pierre de Boudeïlle

#love #love

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

— Malcolm Arnold

#among #communication #friendship #gesture #music

There's nothing more frustrating than seeing a conductor say, 'Play softer,' as they're waving their hands in huge gestures. ↗

— Joshua Bell

#frustrating #gestures #hands #huge #more

We see that every external motion, act, gesture, whether voluntary or mechanical, organic or mental, is produced and preceded by internal feeling or emotion, will or volition, and thought or mind. ↗

— H. P. Blavatsky

#emotion #every #external #feeling #gesture

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

I spin around and give him the finger down low, hoping Monsieur Boutin can't see. St. Clair responds by grinning and giving me the British version, the V-sign with his first two fingers. Monsieur Boutin tuts behind me with good nature. I pay for my meal and take the seat next to St. Clair. "Thanks. I forgot how to flip off the English. I'll use the correct hand gesture next time." "My pleasure. Always happy to educate. ↗

— Stephanie Perkins

#flipping-off #hand-gesture #education

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

#books #encourage #feel #gesture #heroic