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Quotes About Gesture

Can I hold your hand?" he asked. I put mine in his.
~ E. Lockhart
Alec held out his hand. Maurice took it, and they knew at that moment the greatest triumph ordinary man can win.
~ E. M. Forster
since feeling is first who pays any attention to the syntax of things will never wholly kiss you; wholly to be a fool while Spring is in the world my blood approves, and kisses are a far better fate than wisdom lady i swear by all flowers. Don't cry --the best gesture of my brain is less than your eyelids' flutter which says we are for eachother: then laugh, leaning back in my arms for life's not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis
~ E.E. Cummings
I would have told you earlier, but as it was your birthday . . . What do you give the man who has everything? I thought I'd give you . . . me." He puts the keychain down on the bedside table and snuggles in beside me, pulling me into his arms against his chest so that we're spooning. It's perfect. Like you.
~ E.L.
At times our need for a sympathetic gesture is so great that we care not what exactly it signifies or how much we may have to pay for it afterwards.
~ E.M. Forster
Yes, awfully serious,' remarked Maurice, and rested his hand on Alec's shoulder, so that the fingers touched the back of the neck, doing this merely because he wished to do it, not for another reason.
~ E.M. Forster
He llegado al límite de mi resistencia física. Descanso apoyando ambas rodillas en el suelo y doblando la pierna izquierda hacia atrás y la pierna derecha hacia delante. Al verme en esta postura, una señora me da una moneda de pesetas veinticinco, que ingiero de inmediato para no parecer descortés.
~ Eduardo Mendoza
Es impresionante la fuerza que ejerce en nosotros la sugestión. Basta que una se se proponga ser lo más natural posible para que cada ademán y cada movimiento se carguen de artificios.
~ Eduardo Sacheri
Rivas estuvo bien, justo es decirlo. Nos hizo sentar, nos sirvió té, nos explicó sin prisa, y hasta nos hizo un dibujito en un recetario.
~ Eduardo Sacheri
And now the initiation was begun. She was to read, to study, to depict by a gesture, a look, the passions she was to delineate on the boards; lessons dangerous, in truth, to some, but not to the pure enthusiasm that comes from art; for the mind that rightly conceives art is but a mirror which gives back what is cast on its surface faithfully only—while unsullied.
~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Firenza said, "I kind of like Pete. He's a funny guy." "We'll send him a nice wreath," Bocatelli said. "The family will appreciate it.
~ Edward Falco
So is a word better than a gift.
~ Anonymous
I have a present for you, but I need to borrow your arms for wrapping paper.
~ Anonymous
She reaches for his hand, sets something in his palm, and squeezes his hand into a fist. "Goodbye, Werner." "Goodbye, Marie-Laure.
~ Anthony Doerr
Then she begins to move her arms in a short, intricate dance, striking the palm of one hand with the edge of the other, circling her fingers through the air, touching her right ear, finally pointing both index fingers at Joseph. He does not know what to make of it. Her fingers repeat the dance: her hands draw a circle; the palms turn up; the fingers lock. Her lips move but no sound comes out. There is a large silver watch on her wrist which rides up and down her forearm as she gesticulates.
~ Anthony Doerr
She tried to smile sympathetically, but with her face it wasn't quite possible.
~ Anthony Horowitz
It was quite elementary,' returned the detective with a languid gesture of one hand.
~ Anthony Horowitz
I like when they open the door and pull out a chair. I'm really into a man's man.
~ Brooke Burns
I do this thing with my daughter - I put my hand on her face and shake her head, but really affectionately. But I didn't think, and I did that to Flea.
~ Watkin Tudor Jones
Sometimes I buy my wife flowers.
~ Bill Cosby
A dear friend of mine always brings a pineapple instead of flowers when he comes to a show. I love it.
~ Seth Numrich
If you're a guy, you should get girls flowers all the time. They never get old and you can never get them enough. I'm never disappointed when I get flowers. I always thought guys who don't buy women flowers are such fools. All it takes is one. A little goes a long way with flowers.
~ Alison Brie
We always do this fox sign that appears in our choreography very often. Our fans enjoy doing this sign together at our shows.
~ Suzuka Nakamoto
air. I am still holding the scissors, pointing
~ Francesca Lia Block