Quotes About Gesture

Root stood on the doorstep, palms up, the universal gesture for Look, I'm not carrying a big murderous weapon.

I am surprised how often even the smallest kindness can carry a disproportionate weight

All men should give books instead of flowers.

Et il m'apparut que ce geste qui consiste à cueillir une fleur et à l'ajouter au bouquet que l'on tient déjà dans sa main, et que l'on serre même contre son cÅ"ur, est le geste le plus beau et le plus cruel à la fois, parce qu'il rend hommage à la fleur en lui donnant la mort.

Bet kai tik kieno nors žvilgsnis, šypsena, sakinys, gestas atkreipia m?s? d?mes?, m?s? vaizduot?, nepaisydama valios, jau ir ima ?žvelgti anapus j? slypin?ias galimybes. Šit moteris mums dav? dingst? - nors ir menk? - tik?tis.

Well, I'm sorry. Again. For like the millionth time. If there's anything I can do ... I'd offer to pay for your dry cleaning, but you're wearing a T-shirt, and that's just, like weird - I mean, who dry-cleans their T-shirts?

A book without words is like love without a kiss; it's empty.

Postmodernism surely requires an even greater grasp of symbolism, as it's increasingly an art of gesture alone.

This pro football player once sent me 100 teddy bears, asking me to fly to one of his games and go to dinner. I didn't do it - it was just too weird.

I've got this weird thing where I screw my face up. I don't know what it is, but I do it a lot.

Before they got vengeful, conservatives had some useful points to make about welfare. Government 'help' is too often guilt-assuaging gesture. It creates layers of wasteful bureaucracy. Too much help of the wrong sort creates a culture of dependency that swamps our ability to provide.

The idea that there is a difference between East and West is nonsense. You both hand over your card with two hands. If someone were to give me a million pounds, I couldn't care if they handed it to me within their toes.

Have you ever heard a good joke? If you've ever heard someone just right, with the right pacing, then you're already on the way to poetry. It's about using words in very precise ways and using gesture.

A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present.

I shake hands on the first date.

y esto a santo de qué? ¿Por mi primer día? No, pensé que te haría feliz, eso es todo.

When the trucks halted for a moment and GIs tumbled out to urinate in squirming echelons on the road shoulders, civilians rushed up to plead for cigarettes with two fingers pressed to the lips, a gesture described by Forrest Pogue as the French national salute.

Have you ever heard a good joke? If you've ever heard someone just right, with the right pacing, then you're already on the way to poetry. It's about using words in very precise ways and using gesture.

no existe un gesto que no comunique un significado.

It had been a futile gesture, of course, but then they were trapped in an era when futile gestures were all that were available.

Perhaps he wanted to make Monsieur Daladier feel at home by dressing as the Michelin Man?

When you saw me with a dagger in hand - as if to throw at you - you didn't call for your guards. You didn't fear I was here to kill you. You looked over your shoulder to see what I was aiming at. That's the most loving gesture I think a man could receive from a woman. Unless you'd like to sit on my knee for a while...

Perrin laid a finger across her lips just as she opened her mouth. She bit him—hard—but she did not say anything.

Por tu expresión, Nynaeve, habría pensado que estás furiosa, pero sé que es tal tu dulzura que la gente te pide que remuevas su té con tus dedos.