#gesture

These hands which stretch out, implore, beg, then rise to the head in a gesture of calamity. ↗

— Frederick Leboyer

#calamity #gesture #hands #head #implore

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

The retrospective glance is a relatively easy gesture for us to make. ↗

— George Crumb

#gesture #glance #make #relatively #retrospective

I do think grand gestures are a hit and miss, especially for girls. ↗

— Carly Rae Jepsen

#gestures #grand #hit #i #i do

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

Let us lose none of their humble words, let us note their slightest gestures, and tell me, tell me that we will think of them together, now and later, when we realise the misery of the times and the magnitude of their sacrifice. ↗

— Georges Duhamel

#humble #later #let us #lose #magnitude

And I think you understand a little bit more why she falls for him. In a way, watching the French do anything is a little more fun because their gestures are different. And in that way, they make everything interesting. ↗

— Adrian Lyne

#because #bit #different #everything #falls

Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence. ↗

— Henri Matisse

#advantage #drawing #expressive #gesture #like

What sculptors do is represent the essence of gesture. What is important in mime is attitude. ↗

— Marcel Marceau

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