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• There is a time for risky love. There is a time for extravagant gestures. There is a time to pour out your affections on one you love. And when the time comes - seize it, don't miss it.

  Max Lucado

  Valentines Day, Love You, Missing

  Max Lucado (2012). “Cast of Characters: Lost and Found: Encounters with the Living God”, p.17, Thomas Nelson

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• 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.

  Raul Grijalva

  Mistake, Home, Iraq

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• I was worried in the '80s that the best abstract painting had become obsessed with materiality, and painterly gestures and materiality were up against the wall.

  Frank Stella

  Wall, Artist, Abstract Painting

  "With Frank Stella, what you see is what you see. But when the modern master speaks, what you hear may raise your eyebrows."by Kenneth Baker, www.sfgate.com. June 17, 2004.

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• 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

  Men, Preparation, Sitting

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Few enjoy noisy overcrowded functions. But they are a gesture of goodwill on the part of host or hostess, and also on the part of guests who submit to them.

  Fannie Hurst

  Guests, Host, Function

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• A poem in form still has to have voice, gesture, a sense of discovery, a metaphoric connection, as any poetry does.

  Robert Morgan

  Discovery, Voice, Connections

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• The law courts must appear as a threatening gesture toward secret vice. The bank must declare: here your money is secure and well looked after by honest people.

  Adolf Loos

  Law, People, Secret

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

  George Crumb

  Easy, Glances, Retrospective

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• All the gestures of children are graceful; the reign of distortion and unnatural attitudes commences with the introduction of the dancing master.

  Joshua Reynolds

  Dance, Children, Attitude

  Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone, Thomas Gray (1798). “The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Knight ... Containing His Discourses, Idlers, A Journey to Flanders and Holland, and His Commentary on Du Fresnoy's Art of Painting”, p.88

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

  Carly Rae Jepsen

  Girl, Thinking, Missing

  "How to Call Carly Rae Jepsen - Maybe". Interview with Andrew Daniels, www.menshealth.com. June 24, 2012.

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• So what if I'm smokin' weed onstage and doing what I gotta do? It's not me shooting nobody, stabbing nobody, killing nobody. It'sa peaceful gesture and they have to respect that and appreciate that.

  Snoop Dogg

  Weed, Rap, Appreciate

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• 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

  Looks, Interest, Persons

  Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.10, Heron Dance Press

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• A gesture cannot be regarded as the expression of an individual, as his creation (because no individual is capable of creating a fully original gesture, belonging to nobody else), nor can it even be regarded as that person's instrument; on the contrary, it is gestures that use us as their instruments, as their bearers and incarnations

  Milan Kundera

  Expression, Creating, Individuality

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• When we speak, in gestures or signs, we fashion a real object in the world; the gesture is seen, the words and the song are heard. The arts are simply a kind of writing, which, in one way or another, fixes words or gestures, and gives body to the invisible.

  Emile Chartier

  Fashion, Song, Art

  "The Gods". Book by Emile Chartier, 1934.

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• The theater, which is in no thing, but makes use of everything - gestures, sounds, words, screams, light, darkness - rediscovers itself at precisely the point where the mind requires a language to express its manifestations.... To break through language in order to touch life is to create or recreate the theatre.

  Antonin Artaud

  Light, Order, Break Through

  "The Theatre and Its Double". Book by Antonin Artaud, 1938.

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• The secret of attraction is to love yourself. Attractive people judge neither themselves nor others. They are open to gestures of love. They think about love, and express their love in every action. They know that love is not a mere sentiment, but the ultimate truth at the heart of the universe.

  Deepak Chopra

  Love, Relationship, Communication

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• Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.

  Francois Rabelais

  Love, Marriage, Small Gestures

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• And that is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment at a time.

  Libba Bray

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Libba Bray (2009). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.300, Simon and Schuster

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• Every gesture is a gesture from the blood, every expression a symbolic utterance... Everything is of the blood, of the senses.

  Henry Williamson

  Expression, Blood, Utterance

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• It's a rather rude gesture, but at least it's clear what you mean.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Mean, Rude, Clear

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• 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

  Feelings, Mind, Emotion

  H.P. Blavatsky (2016). “The Secret Doctrine”, p.194, Penguin

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

  Jonathan Carroll

  Phones, Hands, People

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• Call it my little gesture toward social conscience, but I like to think I'm teaching a certain number of people to read. Now that sounds pretentious!

  David Eddings

  Teaching, Thinking, Numbers

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• Postmodernism surely requires an even greater grasp of symbolism, as it's increasingly an art of gesture alone.

  Andrew Eldritch

  Art, Symbolism, Postmodernism

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• The sculptor must search with passionate intensity for the underlying principle of the organisation of mass and tension - the meaning of gesture and the structure of rhythm.

  Barbara Hepworth

  Principles, Sculpture, Passionate

  Dame Barbara Hepworth (1970). “A Pictorial Autobiography”

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