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Quotes About Gestures

Los psiquiatras hablaban estirando el dedo como batutas, hablaban de los otros, hablaban en tono falsamente afectuoso de los otros, del sufrimiento de los otros, de la angustia de los otros, de la perplejidad de los otros, sin entender que estaban muertos, Joana, definitivamente muertos, disertando sobre los vivos con la envidia que anima los gestos fosforescentes y blandos de los difuntos, sus órbitas huecas, sus enormes bocas sin dientes.
~ António Lobo Antunes
I know my husband really loves me because he takes me to have ribs. He says I'm the only girl he ever took out who actually ate anything on her plate, as opposed to pushing it around.
~ Julia Barr
I'm not really romantic. I'm just not the guy who brings home flowers and chocolates, but I do choose my moments.
~ Martin Kemp
Everyone knows how much I love you All your gestures Have become my gestures
~ Forrest Gander
He would punctuate the remarkable things he said with silences, his extravagant gestures with absence.
~ Forrest Gander
los demagogos son fáciles de identificar. Hacen un montón de gestos y hablan con ritmos de púlpito utilizando palabras que resuenan a fervor religiosos y a sinceridad temerosa de Dios.
~ Frank Herbert
Anything with pockets is a winner for me because I never know what to do with my hands when somebody takes a photo of me.
~ Stacey Solomon
I'm a very textural composer. I care a lot about textures and gestures. Electronics add so much to that. It's like a flavor - it creates so much texture.
~ Du Yun
kindness wasn't only demonstrated by giving material things or labors. There were the simple gestures that people forgot, that were so important—a little extra time, a smile, patience, conversation, gratitude.
~ Robyn Carr
Then she remembered something she had known long ago -- that kindness wasn't only demonstrated by giving material things or labors. There were the simple gestures that people forgot, that were so important -- a little extra time, a smile, patience, conversation, gratitude.
~ Robyn Carr
Wine, fruit, jams, it is true, but all served with sweet words, tender looks, childish caresses, an infinity of these testimonies from the heart, in fact the true, uninterrupted discourse of love.
~ Machado de Assis
Doutor em matérias escuras e complicadas, sabia muito bem o valor dos números, a significação dos gestos não só visíveis como invisíveis, a estatística da eternidade, a divisibilidade do infinito.
~ Machado de Assis
Every word, every gesture is now loaded with ambiguity, nothing can be taken at face value. We speak to each other from a safe distance, pretending all the years we soaped each other's backs and pissed in front of each other never happened. We don't use any of the baby talk, code words, or short hand gestures that had been our language of intimacy, the proof that we belonged to each other.
~ Amy Tan
you became an expert on silence?' she joked. 'I'm not an expert on anything. but I love language in all forms - sounds and words, facial expressions, hand gestures, body posture and its rhythms, what people mean but don't necessarily say with words. I've always loved words, the power of them.' 'so what's your favorite word?' 'hm, that's an excellent question.' he fell quiet, stroking his beard in thought.
~ Amy Tan
he made me understand something very important. Whether because I am a Latin, or because I am a neurotic, I have a need of gestures. I am myself expressive, demonstrative; every feeling I have takes on expression: words, gestures, signs, letters, articulateness or action. I need this in others.
~ Anais Nin
I would tell him how he almost made us lose interest in passion by his obsession with the gestures empty of their emotions, and how we reviled him, because he almost caused us to take vows of chastity, because what he wanted us to exclude was our own aphrodisiac—poetry.
~ Anais Nin
Every lover could be brought to trial as the murderer of his own love. When something hurts you, saddens you, I rush to avoid it, to alter it, to feel as you do, but you turn away with a gesture of impatience and say: I don't understand
~ Anais Nin
But Allendy says the need of gestures, of proofs of friendship, love, devotion, comes from lack of confidence. I should not need them, I should be able to dispense with them. Proofs of love and friendship are that I give to others all the time. And everyone seems to need them.
~ Anais Nin
That image of a chessboard — an epic contest between two giant players, carefully nudging their pieces around the globe as part of a grand strategy — has indeed become a familiar metaphor for the Cold War. But it is misleading. Many decisions remembered today for their farsighted, tactical brilliance were denounced in their day as weak-willed. And big, public gestures often made less difference than the small, hidden ones.
~ Sam Tanenhaus
Did you know that when Dave Navarro first met Carmen Electra, rumor has it that he was so taken with her beautiful eyes that he went out and bought over a hundred pairs of sunglasses for her to wear to cover her eyes whenever she left her house so no one would fall in love the way he did?
~ Samantha Daniels
The big moments with Ethan weren't, well, big. Instead, it was these tiny increments and gestures that I clung to in order to hold on to him.
~ Sarah Dessen
There was a species of middle pretty who smiled at everything: happy smile, disappointed smile, you're-in-trouble smile.
~ Scott Westerfeld
People can make symbolic gestures but doesn't mean their life changes. One philanthropic moment doesn't make a life of renewal; of change.
~ Tim Winton
não há gestos, palavras, suspiros, que não contenham a soma de todos os crimes que os seres humanos cometeram e cometem.
~ Elena Ferrante