Quotes About Gesture

Here, take my handkerchief. Never, at any crisis of your life, have I known you to have a handkerchief.

The key to a woman's heart is an unexpected gift at an unexpected time.

When we had surmounted the acclivity, I was about to withdraw my arm from his, but by a slight tightening of the elbow was tacitly informed that such was not his will, and accordingly desisted.

If the truth is not in the face, then where is it? In the hands! In the hands.

Sometimes, all you must do is reach out your hand for something wonderful to happen.

his hand spread itself out flat on the table. I paused and took another good look at him. There was something otherworldly about him, the way that he sat, the way he used this one hand to gesture. It was the decorum primitive people often have that makes them seem repositors of immense wisdom, when in fact all they possess is immense conviction.

Look, let me tell you something, Satan, or whoever you are." "Don't use that name, I hate it." "That's likely to make me pepper my speeches with it." "My name is Memnoch," he said calmly, with a small pleading gesture. "Memnoch the Devil.

I studied myself, and he released me, shaking my hair with his right hand. The casual gesture of affection coupled with his dazzling appearance-the vibrant eyes, the exquisitely proportional features-entranced me even as the trance endured by Goblin slowly wore away.

I vowed that every time I came to them I would light one hundred candles. It would be a small proof of my undying love.

L'istinto potente del vampiro per cui anche il più impercettibile cambiamento nell'espressione del volto umano ha l'evidenza di un gesto. Lestat aveva un tempismo sovrannaturale.

She went to the kitchen for plates, and as she returned, one of the

It came to her so clearly now: the stiff-armed reach out to her side with her palm facing backward, the confident expectation of some trusting little hand grabbing hers.

He took his own saber by the blade and handed it to Alek, pommel first, as if offering it to a victor.

They talk with their hands, a gesture for every syllable, conductors guiding their conversation like an orchestra.

Zane gestured to the table. Did you see what I brun-brought? She shook her head, turning back to the papers. I've read these. Not that one. Nipped it from The Spotted Dog. Last week's news, but I thought you'd like the bottom-right bit. At least your reading is coming along. An' I washed my face last Sunday, he said virtuously. -Zane & Rue

He would never be able to emulate Richard's last gesture of defiance--gallant, glorious, and quite mad.

time making the gesture perfunctory

He would never be able to emulate Richard's last gesture of defiance—gallant, glorious, and quite mad.

What makes awe such a powerful call to love is that it's disruptive. It sneaks up on us. It doesn't ask our permission to wow us; it just does. Awe can arise from a single glance, a sound, a gesture.

Inglis is full of metaphors about hands because they've been so important to our human development. It'll come in handy, we say. This child's a handful, and This is getting out of hand, or You're in good hands.

Gwen stopped putting her money in the bag. You're giving your father a picture of a door for his birthday? And she'd thought Mitch marking up pages in her copy of Vogue and telling her, This is what I'd get you for your birthday if I had money had been cheap.

She shook my hand, loosely, like Indians do, using only her fingers. Not like those tight grips that white people use to prove something. She touched my hand like she was glad to see me, not like she wanted to break bones.

Power immobilizes; it freezes with a single gesture-grandiose, terrible, theatrical, or finally, simply monotonous-the variety which is life.

I tell you I always tip. It's a matter of principle with me. I'm like Hemingway. I always do it second-nature.