Quotes About Gestures

to design means forcing ourselves to unlearn what we believe we already know, patiently to take apart the mechanisms behind our reflexes and to acknowledge the mystery and stupefying complexity of everyday gestures like switching off a light of turning on a tap

Les jumeaux nous apprirent les attitudes des grandes personnes en train de fumer: la tête devait être un peu en biais, l'oeil droit à moitié fermé, la cigarette entre l'index et le majeur, le bout du filtre à peine calé enre les lèvres. Il fallait prendre son temps entre deux bouffées, faire semblant de discuter à grands gestes avec les autres.

Perhaps because of this Babel of dialects, Italians cultivated an alternative language: gestures. In

He didn't give me flowers or candy. He gave me the moon and the stars. Infinity -Belly Conklin-

Dialogue is not just quotation. It is grimaces, pauses, adjustments of blouse buttons, doodles on a napkin, and crossings of legs.

Dialogue is not just quotation. It is grimaces, pauses, adjustments of blouses, doodles on a napkin, and crossings of legs. When people communicate, they communicate with their faces, their bodies, their timing, and the objects around them. Make this a full conversation. Not just the words part.

It is a strange thing that all the memories have these two qualities. They are always full of quietness, that is the most striking thing about them; and even when things weren't like that in reality, they still seem to have that quality. They are soundless apparitions, which speak to me by looks and gestures, wordless and silent—and their silence is precisely what disturbs me.

In England, they're filled with curiosity and keep asking: 'Why doesn't he come?' " Hitler said, infusing every gesture with irony. "Be calm. Be calm. He's coming! He's coming!" The laughter from the audience verged on the maniacal.

The voice was suave, pleasant, well modulated and expressive. The restless eyes were so black that it was hard to detect expression in them, but his voice more than made up for it. Here was no man who talked in a conversational monotone, but one whose every word seemed alive with expression. His motions as he moved about straightening up the room were graceful, well-timed and effective.

In this setup, the pressure is always on the non-talker to change, rather than on the talker to be more versatile. This situation minimizes the importance of nonverbal communication: doing nice things for each other, making attentive gestures, or sharing projects in a spirit of collaboration.

But were you only to have the sensation of taste, you'd lose the pleasure the activity offers. The process, the accompanying ritual movements, the gestures, the conversation and eye contact which accompanies the process…

In the slanting light of late autumn, the gestures and bodies of people are more expressive the less meaning they have. Men stand on street corners staring at the emptiness of the day. They spit on the sidewalk and smoke cigarettes. That's the present. ...Time, approaching from afar, is like the air that someone else has already breathed.

No ale ?atwiej w grotesk? zamieni? wielkie gesty i wielkie idee ni? ma?? ide? ciep?ej wody w kranie. Na wielkich gestach ?atwiej si? wy?o?y? i prawica mistrzowsko to odgrywa. Jedzie jak na bananowej skórce.

The magnificence of such objects hardly pertains to the human. They live only in a world of icons and there they participate in rituals which transmute life itself to a series of grand gestures, as moving as they are absurd.

In Degas's compositions with several dancers, their steps, postures and gestures often resemble the almost geometric, formal letters of an alphabet, whereas their bodies and heads are recalcitrant, sinuous and individual.

Things like dressing, postures and gestures are under the artiste's control. If I'm performing, my safety is primarily my responsibilityso I shouldn't end up doing anything that would infuriate the audience.

It's almost better most times to not talk in a scene. I think you can actually express a lot more without words.

I move my face so much, because I'm very much expressive.

I know people who prepare their roles in such a way that they technically look ahead and memorize their gestures, and then they stick to it. Those that are technically proficient enough can make it seem natural, but they do that and don't really take in what other people are doing.

Yes please," Strike said, on the principle that all friendly gestures should be accepted in such situations.

They beamed at each other: for a moment, Robin thought she saw the idea of hugging her cross Strike's mind, but instead he held out his hand and shook hers.

The communication is made only by 7% from the verbal part, the pure content, the remaining 93% is divided between non-verbal (55%), that is the way we gesture and the postures that we assume in front of a person during the communication and para-verbal (38%), ie the way in which we use the voice.

Broke the ice with, "Don't you think it curious that men shake hands with the same hand they use to wipe their arses?

Of course! the path to heaven doesn't lie down in flat miles. It's in the imagination with which you perceive this world, and the gestures with which you honor it.