Quotes About Gestures

In real life, I always look at people and how they walk, or how they carry themselves. I think about the body a lot, in performance.

I see you as series of gestures, a palette of colors -all these tiny tiles pixelate, and then coalesce... into the idea of you...

I love watching you – you're a silent film of gestures

I was wondering, frankly, what kind of pointless gesture I could make just so I wouldn't feel like I was just dying passively.

One afternoon Washoe used ASL to ask him his name. Then she made up a sign for Bob: the index and middle fingers rubbed along the right eyebrow. Ingersoll liked it and taught the younger chimps to sign his name the same way.

She did the "we have mysterious hand gestures that make us giggle" thing.

I prefer to express myself physically, or non-verbally. I prefer just to react without having a lot of dialogue.

I don't make big grand gestures, generally.

The finger lick is just a really bad habit - I do it all the time. My wife Ashley is going to kill me if I do it at dinner one more time. I look like an animal about to dig in.

Some think love can be measured by the amount of butterflies in their tummy. Others think love can be measured in bunches of flowers, or by using the words 'for ever.' But love can only truly be measured by actions. It can be a small thing, such as peeling an orange for a person you love because you know they don't like doing it.

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

In India, horns function as turn signals, brake lights, hand gestures, prayers.

But on the night preceding the day appointed for the conference, the Moor, after first assembling his friends, and then, on a change of mind, dismissing them, is reported to have had many anxious struggles with himself, disturbed alike in his thoughts and his gestures, which, even when he was silent, betrayed the secret agitation of his mind.

You must have this charm to reach the pinnacle. It is made of everything and of nothing, the striving will, the look, the walk, the proportions of the body, the sound of the voice, the ease of the gestures. It is not at all necessary to be handsome or to be pretty; all that is needful is charm.

Siobhan dice che se si solleva un sopracciglio, questo gesto può significare molte cose differenti. Può voler dire: "Voglio fare sesso con te", ma può anche essere inteso come: "Hai appena detto una cosa veramente stupida".

Gathered round the bucket of coke that burned in front of the shelter, several figures were swinging arms against bodies and rubbing hands together with large, pantomimic gestures: like comedians giving formal expression to the concept of extreme cold.

We were awash in tiny attentions. Small gestures, words, empathies thought to be extinct came to life... We discovered the color of each other's eyes.

And, possessed by the tormented spirit of Ricky Ricardo, Rod Steiger plays an old Cuban don with an accent and gestures that make Al Pacino in Scarface seem subtle.

Seek opportunities to show you care. The smallest gestures often make the biggest difference.

Mothers, [fathers, and other caregivers] who are attentive to their children's gestures have children who pick up words a little faster.

There exists an undeniable pleasure in knowing that everything you do has no real basis, that whether or not you commit an action is a matter of indifference. The fact nonetheless remains that in our daily gestures we compromise with Vacuity - that is, we turn and turn about, and occasionally, at the same time, we take the world as real and unreal. We mingle pure truth and sordid truths and this amalgam, the thinker's disgrace, is the living man's revenge.

Little touches can make a big difference.

I'm a romantic, and I like guys to bring flowers and buy some gifts - not expensive things, just romantic things.

I'd bring you flowers