#gestures

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

Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#gestures #listen #mankind #picturesque #rather

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

Listen to the trees as they sway in the wind. Their leaves are telling secrets. Their bark sings songs of olden days as it grows around the trunks. And their roots give names to all things. Their language has been lost. But not the gestures. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

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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

#failure #fewer #gestures #greater #higher

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

#believe #gestures #him #instruct #laugh

I can't do the same thing every night, the same gestures... it's like putting on dirty panties every day. ↗

— Brigitte Bardot

#dirty #every #every day #every night #gestures

Everybody in Hollywood loves symbolic gestures. ↗

— Drew Carey

#gestures #hollywood #loves #symbolic

There is no relationship between the gestures and what an orchestra will do. ↗

— James Levine

#gestures #orchestra #relationship #will