Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes
Jace to Alec, pg. 311
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Ashes (2008)
Variant: I kick kittens. I made rude gestures at nuns.
Source: City of Ashes
Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes
Jace to Alec, pg. 311
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Ashes (2008)
Anne Hathaway (1982) American actress
Source: "Anne Hathaway wanted to be a nun" https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/anne-hathaway-wanted-to-be-a-nun-2343678.html. The Independent. (August 25, 2011).
“I think it's fair rude to make him a tree and not know what kind he is.”
Tamora Pierce book Wolf-Speaker
Source: Wolf-Speaker
“Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.”
Henri Matisse (1869–1954) French artist
As quoted by in the review of 'The Drawings of Henri Matisse', exhibit at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, by Theodore F Wolff in The Christian Science Monitor (25 March 1985)
Posthumous quotes
“Don’t overconduct; don’t make unnecessary movements or gestures”
Pierre Monteux (1875–1964) French conductor
Michael Palin (1943) British comedian, actor, writer and television presenter
This was a comment made about picketing of the film Monty Python's Life of Brian http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2011/09_september/29/holyflying.shtml but there is no reason to attribute it to Michael Palin. <br class="br">Misattributed
Helen Frankenthaler (1928–2011) American artist
Quote in: 'An interview with Helen Frankenthaler', by Geldzahler, The New York school – the painters & sculptors of the fifties Irving Sandler, Harper & Row, Publishers, 1978, p. 67
Frankenthaler explains the difference between gesture and signature in her painting
1970s - 1980s
Charles Baudouin (1893–1963) French-Swiss psychoanalyst
section 21
The Myth of Modernity (1946)