Gesture Quotes - page 7

Great cataclysmic things can go by and neither the orchestra nor the conductor are under the delusion that whether they make this or that gesture is going to be the deciding factor in how it comes out. (James Levine)
I have a big problem with conductors who gesture a lot. View quote
James Levine
As governor, when I visited our troops in Kuwait and Iraq, I served them Thanksgiving dinner. It was a small gesture compared to their sacrifice. View quote
Jennifer Granholm
It's tricky when you're doing a recording, because the only weapon you have is your voice and the delivery of that voice. You don't have a gesture or a facial expression, there are no costumes or set pieces. Everything needs to be present in the voice. View quote
Joyce DiDonato
It's one of the most liberating things I experience in writing - letting yourself get rid of a gesture or character or plot point that always nagged, even if you couldn't admit to yourself that it did. View quote
Leslie Jamison
We need to rediscover the essence of the meaning of 'the use.' Architecture is, above all, here for a better living. Every gesture, every shape must be justified by various reasons that would reinforce their reason to be, their use, and will give more sense to their beauty. View quote
Christian de Portzamparc
I am not married, no. I wasn't really into the notion when I was younger, but now I think a proposal is the ultimate romantic gesture. View quote
Miranda Hart
I think it is the fact that birds are two-legged, like us, which gives them something of our balance and gesture and makes them nearer to us. View quote
Quentin Blake
I think the time is ripe for a return to the refinement of lifestyle that the pocket watch embodies. A personal pleasure that you know you have in your pocket, which requires an elegant gesture to use and show to others. View quote
Richard Mille
While this debate today is a belated effort to inform the American people, it is nevertheless an empty gesture. It is time to admit our mistake in Iraq and begin to bring our troops home with honor. View quote
Raul Grijalva
There's just no concept of layering a thick-sleeved sweater under a coat in L.A. A coat is more of a gesture than a necessity. You know, in case the temperature goes down to 55 degrees. (Sloane Crosley)
I was born deaf. I was raised in a hearing world and in a deaf world at the same time. I can't say that I like one better than I like the other. I like them both. I speak pretty well; I gesture. If I don't understand something, you know, pen and paper, texting. I use it all. View quote
Sean Berdy
Each single gesture of art must be daring. One must not be concerned with the side-effects. View quote
Toni Servillo
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. View quote
Trey Anastasio
There is no gesture more devastating than the back turning away. View quote
Rachel Simmons
It was this indifference to the quality of his material that earned Liszt the contempt of his most distinguished contemporaries and of many of the most respectable critics and historians of posterity. It was, nevertheless, his greatest strength. It made it possible for him to manipulate the material ruthlessly, to concentrate on effects of realization with unprecedented intensity, and to integrate styles and techniques of performance into composition in a new way. His invention of novel keyboard effects and his mastery of musical gesture have always been undervalued, especially by pianists of the German school who prefer the kind of music that can be executed while soulfully regarding the ceiling. On the whole, the most genuine understanding of his music has been displayed by musicians of eastern Europe, and he may almost be considered as the founder of Russian pianism. View quote
Charles Rosen
That inescapable animal walks with me, Has followed me since the black womb held, Moves where I move, distorting my gesture, A caricature, a swollen shadow, A stupid clown of the spirit's motive, Perplexes and affronts with his own darkness, The secret life of belly and bone. View quote
Delmore Schwartz
Every gesture is a gesture from the blood, every expression a symbolic utterance... Everything is of the blood, of the senses. View quote
Henry Williamson
The sign is a gesture produced with the intention of communicating, that is, in order to transmit one's representation or inner state to another being. View quote
Umberto Eco
Men and women whisper to each other because they have turned a sacred gesture into a sinful act. View quote
Paulo Coelho
You know about a person who deeply interests you more than you can be told. A look, a gesture, an act, which to everybody else is insignificant tells you more about that one than words can. (Henry David Thoreau)
But a few understand that building is a great symbol we live in our minds, and existence is the attempt to bring that life into physical reality, to state it in gesture and form. For the man who understands this, a house he owns is a statement of his life. View quote
Ayn Rand
I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates. View quote
Oleg Cassini
He found that it was easy to make a heroic gesture, but hard to abide by its results. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
Interpretation is not (as most people assume) an absolute value, a gesture of mind situated in some timeless realm of capabilities. View quote
Susan Sontag