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Quotes About Gesture

The hand has the richest articulation of space.
~ Eduardo Chillida
It is a treat to do scenes where you silently enact.
~ Karthi
The most romantic thing I ever did to my woman? I painted her toenails!
~ Tracy Morgan
In the end, the gesture of painting becomes almost meditative, like a ritual.
~ Shahzia Sikander
I went to Pakistan; I engaged in peace. If a hand extended is not shaken, what are you supposed to do?
~ Ashraf Ghani
At Eleven Madison Park, instead of brioche or chocolates, we give our guests a jar of breakfast granola as a gift at the end of a meal. We also make savory granolas.
~ Daniel Humm
I want to be clear that I only share passages from the Bible as a gesture of love.
~ Israel Folau
Art has little to do with made things, but rather concerns a state of mind, a way of being, a gesture that cannot be betrayed, a life
~ Peter Lamborn Wilson
Szpindel's eyebrows drew together like courting caterpillars.
~ Peter Watts
One day, she explained, he'd pass by the window and, given the correct lighting, moment, and identical gesture, his shadow would match, for an instant, the painted one. His feet tingled as he stood uneasily at the edge of the flat, dark shape. 'It's only a matter of time,' she said.
~ Philip Graham
You've got me confused with some kind of saint, Noreen. The kind who's OK with being martyred as long as his halo's straight in the photograph. If I'm going to throw myself to the lions, I want it to mean a lot more than just being remembered in some milkmaid's prayers on a Sunday morning. I never was a man for a useless gesture.
~ Philip Kerr
As the most socially accepted means of touching, a handshake is one of the main ways we exchange energy with others.
~ Philip Toshio Sudo
While the credits roll he says: That scene with the chain saw was great, wasn't it? I look at him and joke: Yeah, I almost grabbed you at that moment. He smiles back at me and I receive his smile like a gift. There weren't many times Thomas smiled at me like that. It wasn't his way.
~ Philippe Besson
When I receive offers from overseas, I respond with handwritten letters since I'm unable to visit them myself.
~ Hyun Bin
I did send a girl a plane ticket asking her for a visit, I guess that's quite romantic.
~ Orlando Bloom
As governor, when I visited our troops in Kuwait and Iraq, I served them Thanksgiving dinner. It was a small gesture compared to their sacrifice.
~ Jennifer Granholm
We all accept the visual shorthand used throughout comics: if something's farther away, it'll be drawn with a thinner, simpler line, eventually leaving out most visual information and becoming a gesture, a skeletal representation of a thing.
~ Nate Powell
Building a bridge, in my opinion, is a symbolic gesture, linked with the needs of people who cross over it, and with the idea of overcoming or surmounting obstacles. A modern bridge can also be a work of art. It helps to shape our daily lives and becomes a vital experience for all the people who use it.
~ Santiago Calatrava
Whether I'm doing a routine where I want to move people, or if I want to feel moved myself, I definitely tap into those moments where it's not just dancing or movement. It might just be a hand gesture or just a slow look, or even just the way you slightly tip your head forward. These subtleties speak volumes.
~ Derek Hough
We see that every external motion, act, gesture, whether voluntary or mechanical, organic or mental, is produced and preceded by internal feeling or emotion, will or volition, and thought or mind.
~ Helena Blavatsky
If you really screw up, send roses.
~ Letitia Baldrige
If I have some time, like 15-20 minutes, I bake something for Abhinav. I love to cook for him.
~ Rubina Dilaik
She extended a hand that I didn't know how to take, so I broke its fingers with my silence.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
We are not long-term beings. Not heroes of romances in many volumes. For one gesture, for one word alone, we shall make the effort. We openly admit: our creations will be temporary. We shall have this as our aim: a gesture.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer