Quotes About Gestures

History is not simply the great tumults and tragedies but the accumulation of tiny moments and gestures.

She barely heard. Barely answered. Finally she nodded. Fingertips

It is the little thing, the unrehearsed gesture, the catch in the breath, the droop of the lip, the start of surprise, which really reveals. We may analyze ourselves in volumes and remain undiscovered; and then – by a yawn, a tilt of the head, a sob of exhaustion, a flash of hate - we are betrayed and unmasked forever.

People have their acquired armor, made up of gestures and expressions and defensive chatter.

Having lips and not using them to smile, is like having a million dollars in the bank and forgetting the account number.

Never stop doing the little things for other people. Sometimes it's those little things that will occupy the biggest parts of their hearts.

I like your small gestures that speak volumes about how much you care.

I felt sorry for the other kings who had to fight for their authority or wore it poorly, their gestures jagged and rough. With Achilles it was graceful as a blessing, and the men lifted their faces to it as they would a to priest.

The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit has made permanent. Nature, like the destruction of Pompeii, like the metamorphosis of a nymph, has arrested us in an accustomed movement.

The costumes of these two ladies seemed to me like the materialisation, snow-white or patterned with colour, of their inner activity, and, like the gestures which I had seen the Princesse de Guermantes make and which, I had no doubt, corresponded to some latent idea, the plumes which swept down from her forehead and her cousin's dazzling and spangled bodice seemed to have a special meaning, to be to each of these women an attribute which was hers and hers alone.

Putting her trust in God, she displayed the same optimistic excitement on the eve of a garden party or on the eve of a revolution, whereby her hasty gestures seemed to exorcise radicalism or inclement weather.

Doc tips his hat to dogs as he drives by and the dogs look up and smile at him.

É singular que certa ordem de atos secretos tenha como consequência exterior um mode de falar ou gesticular que os revela.

Today's Italians Many Italians are naturally expressive and affectionate people. They tend to talk easily and rapidly, making descriptive gestures. They are generally family-loving people. Their warmth is especially noticeable in their treatment of babies and children, who are adored by their proud parents.

Se reía con ganas y es posible que me haya enamorado de eso porque me gustaba verla reír haciendo gestos con la mano como si quisiera sujetar la carcajada pero nunca lo conseguía y se le escapaba en saltitos.

I'm the master of distractions. A couple of hand gestures and BAM! I'll pull the underwear clean off your butt.

The body says what words cannot.

I will keep an eye on Diatribe, with her big talk and heroic gestures, to see with what force she will bring down my Achilles, when hitherto she has never managed to hit a common soldier, not even a Thersites, but she has shot her miserable self to pieces with her own weapons.

5. Use Body Language Emotions can be translated through body language. Be aware of how you are standing when you're telling the story. How's your posture? Are you standing straight up and confident or serious? Are you slumped over and looking depressed?

Take note of how much space you take up when telling your story. Are your feet far apart or close together? Generally, men take up more space, which has been recognized as a sign of power and being confident. Are your hands and arms moving as you speak? If so, it can add emphasis. Be sure, though, that they are not moving too much and distracting from what you're saying.

verbal tricks might be employed to trap an opponent; and the debate was always accompanied by vivid, ritualized gestures, partly contrived to mimic a combat in which one might be hard put to maintain his cool. (The point being, precisely, to learn to remain calm under pressure.)

Saussure may show that each act of expression becomes significant only as a modulation of a general system of expression and only insofar as it is differentiated from other linguistic gestures. The marvel is that before Saussure we did not know anything about this, and that we forget it again each time we speak--to begin with when we speak of Saussure's ideas.

Did love really require grand gestures? Wasn't true love to be found in the little things, like holding one's hand or sitting comfortably around a gentle fire?

Only tiny kindnesses, but the ones that counted, the million little mercies we take for granted, the mundane gestures that keep us, tentatively, together.