Physical Gesture Quotes

Getting ready: the show girl scratches her breast and shakes out her feathers.

I'm sick of girls who don't know how to high-five.

Trotsky rises to give me his hand, then sits at his desk, gently allowing his regard to light on my person.

I know it's a guy thing to chest bump, but me and my dancers chest bump before hitting the stage. Not too hard though...ouch!

If you have an idea, you have to move on it, to make a gesture. Drawing is an immediate way of articulating that idea - of making a gesture that is both physical and intellectual.

To bend and prostrate oneself to express sentiments of respect, appears to be a natural motion.

When the music is physically demanding, I want to make sure that the effort involved is put across to the audience through physical gesture.

A sentence is like a tune. A memorable sentence gives its emotion a melodic shape. You want to hear it again, say it—in a way, to hum it to yourself. You desire, if only in the sound studio of your imagination, to repeat the physical experience of that sentence. That craving, emotional and intellectual but beginning in the body with a certain gesture of sound, is near the heart of poetry.