Quotes About Gesture

Actors cannot choose the manner in which they are born. Consequently, it is the one gesture in their lives completely devoid of self-consciousness.

Sometimes when we think about femininity, we think also fragile. But I think you can be feminine and very strong. I think make-up goes with that femininity. I think it's a natural gesture for women and one they do more for themselves than for others.

If this gesture was the way of getting out of the penitentiary, I'd do it.

Each single gesture of art must be daring. One must not be concerned with the side-effects.

Let me tell you, I am not a girl who loves to get flowers. I love the sweet gesture, but those things are high-maintenance!

I honestly can't think of many more truly romantic gestures than a really well-thought-through prenuptial agreement.

To burn a CDR of music you like to give as a gift to someone you wish to become closer to is a cold, moist-palmed, mouth-breathing bummer.

For my 21st birthday, my now-wife, at the time girlfriend, flew across the country and showed up at my house.

Sir Alex Ferguson sent me a letter wishing me good luck before my fight with Floyd Mayweather Jr. He also sent me a United shirt, signed by all of the players. It was a really nice touch and typical of the man who has always made himself available to managers in this country whenever they've needed advice.

Like Hipster Racism, Hipster Sexism is a distancing gesture, a belief that, simply by applying quotations, uncool, questionable, and even offensive material about women can be alchemically transformed.

There's as much revealed in the way a person lifts a glass as in what they say about some political issue.

I don't ever remember seeing a base runner who was all the way to third base run back across the mound. It was kind of a respectful thing.

A thoughtful cup of tea brought to your bedside each morning means more to me than the huge bouquet of flowers bought once a year.

blowing on her fingernails and buffing them on the front of her dress, a brief ritual from out of Willow's teens, indicating prowess.

The meaning of a particular action of the hand was understood only in terms of the positioning of the entire body, the facial expression, and the direction of the glance.

Feelings follow actions.

She squeezed the left side of his face.

The tree made it's first move, the first overture of friendship. It allowed a leaf to fall.

I am in favor of preserving the French habit of kissing ladies' hands — after all, one must start somewhere.

What is it about the sound of clapping hands? It's only skin against slapping skin, so why can it make a tide turn in you? Why can it break on top of you and lift you up at the same time? Maybe it's because it's one of the most noble things humans do with their hands. I mean, think about it. Humans make fists with their hands. They use them to fight, to steal things, to hurt each other. When people clap, it's one of the few times they stand together and applaud other people.

I had a boyfriend once who sent me--in a plastic bag, so it wouldn't drip--a real cow's heart with a real arrow stuck through it. As you may divine, he knew I was interested in poetry.

The future is in your hands, she resumed. She held her own hands out to us, the ancient gesture that was both an offering and an invitation, to come forward, into an embrace, an acceptance. In your hands, she said, looking down at her own hands as if they had given her the idea. But there was nothing in them. They were empty. It was our hands that were supposed to be full, full of the future; which could be held but not seen.

He's got his cigarette going . He offers her one; this time she takes it. Brief match-flare inside their cupped hands. Red finger-ends.

Ashley watched her go and saw her square her small shoulders as she went. And that gesture went to his heart, more than any words she had spoken.