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Quotes About Gestures

Do you want me to leave this with you?" "Sure you don't mind?" "Nah." I handed him the carton and spoon. "Enjoy." My offer wasn't totally generous. I took perverse pleasure at the thought he'd think about me with each bite.
~ Rachel Hawthorne
They made love through their eyes, while their gestures conveyed otherwise!
~ RAMANA PEMMARAJU
I don't go up to guys. I'm all about a guy sending me flowers, getting me chocolates and surprising me.
~ Emeraude Toubia
When I first left Florida for Boston, I was so eager to shed my Floridian identity, perhaps some of my earlier surreal gestures felt hollow and unconvincing because they were not rising from the particular brand of the uncanny I knew best.
~ Laura van den Berg
Cuántos años y qué luchas internas habían exigido el perfeccionamiento de ese tipo de gestos de fingido desasosiego?
~ Ricardo Piglia
The phenotypic effects of a meme may be in the form of words, music, visual images, styles of clothes, facial or hand gestures, skills such as opening milk bottles in tits, or panning wheat in Japanese macaques.
~ Richard Dawkins
we must be precise with love, its language and its gestures. If it is to save us, we must look at it as clearly as we should learn to look at death
~ Julian Barnes
There is a good deal in a man's mode of eating.
~ Ovid
The gestures and the swagger and the attitude of black men is imitated everywhere in American culture, but people still find black men intolerable.
~ Jess Row
I can type faster than I can point. And my mother told me that pointing is impolite.
~ Andrew S. Tanenbaum
Humanity needs to see these gestures of peace and to hear words of hope and peace!
~ Pope Francis
Send 10-TEN!!-people flowers. Today. As "Thank yous" for good things "small"-or even large-done in the last two weeks.
~ Tom Peters
A smile flickered over his lips, but found no purchase
~ Cecilia Grant, A Lady Awakened
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.
~ Mary Oliver
The smallest gestures you do can sometimes carry the most weight.
~ Joe Vitale
Ghosts... they are the completions of the deads intended gestures, there unfinished plans still hanging in the air - something like when you forgot one thing and so you pantomime the motion.
~ Anne Tyler, Breathing Lessons
They belonged to that vast group of human automata who go through life without neglecting to perform a single one of the gestures executed by the surrounding puppets.
~ Edith Wharton
I have often observed, that on mimicking the looks and gestures of angry, or placid, or frighted, or daring men, I have involuntarily found my mind turned to that passion, whose appearance I endeavored to imitate; nay, I am convinced it is hard to avoid it, though one strove to separate the passion from its correspondent gestures. Our minds and bodies are so closely and intimately connected, that one is incapable of pain or pleasure without the other.
~ Edmund Burke
Something changed in part of reality — my knees and my hands. What science has knowledge for this? The blind man goes on his way and I don't make any more gestures. It's already not the same time, or the same people, or anything the same. This is being real.
~ Alberto Caeiro
L'amore si fa o si sente, l'amore non si dice, non si reclama e non si commenta l'amore fatto, l'amore ha gli occhi per parlare e le mani per recargli doni. Se gli occhi sfuggono e le mani arrivano vuote, è detto tutto. Due che non hanno niente da dirsi parlano del loro amore reciproco, che intanto st volando altrove. Parlare d'amore significa parlare d'altro
~ Aldo Busi
Asombrar con gestos amorsos a quien nos rechaza es, ante todo, una grosería.
~ Alejandro Dolina
Gentlemen now went out without their usual entourage, but they could be seen carrying a bag over their arms on their way to shop for food. When two friends ran into each other on the street, they would say hello from a distance, in hurried, wordless gestures.
~ Alessandro Manzoni
And I think you understand a little bit more why she falls for him. In a way, watching the French do anything is a little more fun because their gestures are different. And in that way, they make everything interesting.
~ Adrian Lyne
One of the great things that playwright A.R. Gurney does in 'Sylvia' is he gives language to the emotional gestures and energy that our dogs give to us when they're communicating.
~ Annaleigh Ashford