Quotes About Gestures

I like to give people novels I think they would like, on no particular occasion - just when we're in a bookstore together. I like to receive reference books on my birthday.

Love wasn't about reasons. It wasn't about admiring fine qualities. Love was a language all on its own, composed of gestures that seemed incomprehensible, perhaps even pointless, to the outside observer. Speaking

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. -from The Swan

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.

Our hands also say a lot about our disposition. If the arms of the person you're talking to are relaxed, then that's a positive sign. But if they are crossed, then it could mean that he is not into the conversation.

Non-verbal listening, in which the listener displays what they're thinking based on their expressions and gestures, is important for feedback and can give you information on which direction to take the story. If the

It's the worst of bad manners to ridicule the small gesture...Small, stepwise changes in personal habits aren't trivial. Ultimately they will, or won't, add up to having been the thing that mattered.

If a friend had a coronary scare and finally started exercising three days a week, who would hound him about the other four days? It's the worst of bad manners—and self-protection, I think, in a nervously cynical society—to ridicule the small gesture.

I know the intimate gestures he uses with women, but I still want to know the gestures he uses with God.

'S21' was a film about corporeal memory and how the same gestures repeated many times years earlier can be reawakened.

Outcomes rarely turn on grand gestures or the art of the deal, but on whether you've sent someone a thank-you note.

She pulled a face at

I quite like the drama of an encore. I think an encore is for those artists who are inclined to do dramatic gestures, and I certainly would say I am inclined towards them.

Because Shingon is Vajrayana, the main meditation practice involves working with visualizations, mantras, and mudra gestures. You replace your self-image with that of an archetype, you replace your usual mental talk with the mantra of that archetype, and you take on the physical and emotional body experience of that archetype through making mudras—ritual hand gestures. If your concentration is good enough, your identity briefly shifts. You become that archetype.

There is a time for risky love. There is a time for extravagant gestures. There is a time to pour out your affections on one you love. And when the time comes - seize it, don't miss it.

Love is not about grand intentions. It is about small attentions.

You wake from dreams of doom and--for a moment--you know: beyond all the noise and the gestures, the only real thing, love's calm unwavering flame in the half-light of an early dawn.

Send two dozen roses to Room 424 and put "Emily, I love you" on the back of the bill.

I learned that to be charitable with gestures and words can bring enormous joy and repair injured feelings.

Modeling is really silent acting.

You know a relationship has deteriorated past the point of salvage when one person detests another's gestures.

Our mind is capable of detecting even the smallest hand and finger movements, and if gestures and motions are employed successfully during an utterance or discussion, they can enhance the transmission of information."

Probably one of the often overlooked framing components is body language. The way a question is framed might depend on a variety of factors, including posture, mood, facial gestures, and grin."

The most romantic things a man can do for a woman are the little things that let her know that she's on his mind and in his heart.