#gesture

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

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

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

— Malcolm Arnold

#among #communication #friendship #gesture #music

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

You're here to sweat. This program is live. There's about one thousand million people watching you. So, you remember - one wrong word, one foolish gesture and your whole career could go down in flames. Hold that thought and have a nice night. ↗

— Paul Hogan

#career #could #down #flames #foolish

I have the ability to sing with emotion and feeling, but if you say I sound like Billie Holiday, that's cool. Let's look at who Billie was: she was this person, this singer, this beautiful diva who could move the audience with the slightest gesture of her hand. ↗

— Erykah Badu

#audience #beautiful #billie #billie holiday #cool

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

I tended to be hard on the egos of a certain kind of men. The ones who normally swept women off their feet had never moved me much, because I'd always felt that if they swept me off my feet they'd practiced on a lot of women before me, and would practice more with women after me. I'd rarely been wrong on that. ~Anita Blake ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#romance #romantic-gestures #love

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

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

— Jonathan Carroll

#gesture #hands #people #phone #talk