Gestural Quotes

#1. In addition to Ameslan, chimpanzees and other nonhuman primates are being taught a variety of other gestural languages. And it is just this transition from tongue to hand that has permitted humans to regain the ability-lost, according to Josephus, since Eden-to communicate with the animals.

Carl Sagan

#2. Architecture is about aging well, about precision and authenticity. There is much more to the success of a building than what you can see. I'm not suggesting that gestural architecture is always superficial, but solid reasoning has its place.

Annabelle Selldorf

#3. And for many, politics has become gestural: it is about refusing to engage with power on power's own terms; about action, not ideas; about the symbolic control of territory to create islands of utopia.

Paul Mason

#4. People have thought that some of my writing and lines are done by a machine. I'm able to move in a way that's part gestural dance performance, and it's fun for me, so I incorporate that into the painting.

Jose Parla

#5. The harp was so much more gestural and physical for me than the piano - something about bringing this instrument into your body.

Zeena Parkins

#6. There are some people who may not like precision in their art. They may like it to be grittier and more gestural, more of a direct expression in the way that a painter would put his strokes on canvas.

Adrian Tomine

#7. Any professional knows that the flute and the piano is a boring combination. All you've got to arrive at is a kind of typical gestural crap, right? You might agree, though you wouldn't call it gestural crap.

Morton Feldman

#8. With the piano I'm completely in control of the gestural situation-not that I'm going to play the piece myself, but I know what's difficult, what's impossible.

Luc Ferrari

#9. Some very considerable part of the gestural language of public places that had once belonged to cigarettes now belonged to phones.

William Gibson

#10. Sign is a live, contemporaneous, visual-gestural language and consists of hand shapes, hand positioning, facial expressions, and body movements. Simply put, it is for me the most beautiful, immediate, and expressive of languages, because it incorporates the entire human body.

Myron Uhlberg

#11. I have problems with machines which aren't gestural.

Luc Ferrari

#12. Reading a poem aloud to an audience is gestural as much as precise.

Douglas Dunn

#13. I can't imagine anything worse than being required to have fun.

Scott Westerfeld

#14. Your dreams are so far outside of your comfort zone, you've convinced yourself you don't dream at all.

Darnell Lamont Walker

#15. Being mature isn't what it's cracked up to be.

Joanne Fluke

#16. But I,
from poetry's skies,
plunge into communism,
because
without it
I feel no love.

Vladimir Mayakovsky

#17. I appreciate subtlety. I have never enjoyed a kiss in front of the camera. There's nothing to it except not getting your lipstick smeared.

Hedy Lamarr

#18. You have a career, and you start as a business person. And you work your way, you reach this peak, and you know the time's going to come when you go back down.

Miranda Lambert

#19. Ingenuity is true intelligence. Not study.

John Bentley

#20. In other words, no matter how well documented or noble our cause is, it won't be helped by our feeling aggression toward the oppressors or those who are promoting the danger. Nothing will ever change through aggression.

Pema Chodron

#21. The only way cheese is dessert is when it's followed by the word cake.

Michele Gorman

#22. When nothing else works, eating sure does.

Joseph Fink

#23. If I like the story and it's well written, and it's a character I want to play and they'll pay me, then I decide to do it.

William H. Macy

#24. Commit to stop making excuses. When we make excuses, we lie to ourselves and continue bad habits.

Joyce Meyer

#25. Elves apparently had a short childhood. Not like witches, who seemed to take forever to grow up, according to Jenks.

Kim Harrison

#26. Believe in better, which is a corporate phrase rather than a political phrase. We don't want more. We're not looking for quantity. We're looking for quality. Believe in better suggests intergenerational change. It suggests product innovation. It suggests something better for the future.

Frank Luntz

#27. Wisdom is a mother;
proverbs are her offspring.

Matshona Dhliwayo