Quotes About Gesture

Whenever Ida pointed celery at him, she meant business.

kore hodo to / botan no shikata / suru ko kana "The peony was as big as this, "Says the little girl Opening her arms.

Every gesture is a dead dream.

Every gesture, however simple, violates an inner secret. Every gesture is a revolutionary act; an exile, perhaps, from the true ... of our intentions. Action is a disease of thought, a cancer of imagination. Action is self-exile. Every action is incomplete and flawed.

Every effort is a crime, because every gesture is a dead dream.

Her beautiful eyes and lips were very grave as she made her choice, and Anthony thought again how naive was her every gesture; she took all the things of life for hers to choose from and apportion, as though she were continually picking out presents for herself from an inexhaustible counter.

When she told a story, she rolled her eyes and waved her head and was very dramatic.

I've become one of those women who thrusts her engagement finger out all the time.

Always point your finger at the chest of the person with whom you are being photographed. You will appear dynamic. And no photo editor can crop you from the picture.

Never refuse a breath mint - you don't know why it's being offered.

The first thing I did when I sold my book was buy a new wedding ring for my wife and asked her to marry me all over again.

Holding hands is such a simple, tender gesture - there should be no barrier to people loving who they want to love and being able to express that in public.

For me, I always have looked at 'indie' as a term of 'independence.' Never associated a sonic gesture with that in the same way that pop music has always meant 'popular' to me; you know, it didn't define a sound.

A poem in form still has to have voice, gesture, a sense of discovery, a metaphoric connection, as any poetry does.

A sentence is like a tune. A memorable sentence gives its emotion a melodic shape. You want to hear it again, say it—in a way, to hum it to yourself. You desire, if only in the sound studio of your imagination, to repeat the physical experience of that sentence. That craving, emotional and intellectual but beginning in the body with a certain gesture of sound, is near the heart of poetry.

Anther promising gesture innovator is Leap Motion, which makes a cute little activating touchpad that enables you to do all sorts of things by gesture on your desktop computer, including art, graphics, games, handwriting, drawing, map navigation, photo blowups and more.

He straightened quickly and looked round at her. "Oh, Claire!" He patted the breast pocket of his shirt, making a hollow drumming

I'm your ride out to the Double T, Beau said, gripping the edge of his white straw cowboy hat and tipping it in a cordial gesture. She ground the heels of her low pumps into the soft tar to contain her growing irritation.  Did he think she was an idiot?  No way.

I brug you two [gifts] . . . I gots the little here in my pockie.' He dug one hand deep into his pocket and pulled out a handful of nuts and a dead grasshopper. 'Nope. Be the other side.' (Matt)

I can't believe I just asked you to hold my hand,' said Ira, but Mike had already taken it.

That's the Little Dipper. Hey, Armpit, what sign are you?" "This is my sign," Armpit said, and gave him the finger.

I know you've got something nice in your pocket, George; give her some

Wasn't it good of him? I like such things, for as Father says, trifles show character. When I mentioned it to Mrs. K., that evening, she laughed, and said, That must have been Professor Bhaer, he's always doing things of that sort.

As she spoke, Amy returned her contribution, with a nod and a smile, and hurried away again, feeling that it was easier to do a friendly thing than it was to stay and be thanked for it.