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Quotes About Gesture

If I have a drink in my hand, sometimes it accidentally falls in the direction of the person.
~ Jorja Fox
A gift is something you can hold in your hand and say, "Look, he was thinking of me," or, "She remembered me." You must be thinking of someone to give him a gift. The gift itself is a symbol of that thought. It doesn't matter whether it costs money.
~ Gary Chapman
Lord God, sometimes I forget how much a small gesture can mean to my spouse—even if his or her primary love language isn't gifts. Please help me to be thoughtful and to show him or her how much I care.
~ Gary Chapman
The shadow had followed behind them, clinging to their steps; and the two children little suspected its presence when they at last sat down, trustingly, under the mighty protection of Apollo, who, with a great bronze gesture, lifted his huge lyre to the heart of a crimson sky.
~ Gaston Leroux
It was impossible to say where one gesture ended and the next began.
~ Geoff Dyer
He kept his tippet stuffed with pins for curls, And pocket-knives, to give to pretty girls.
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
think that the rare Englishmen who have this gesture are never of the heavy type— for fear of any lumbering instance to the contrary, I will say, hardly ever; they have usually a fine temperament and much tolerance towards the smaller errors of men (themselves inclusive). The
~ George Eliot
It is violence when we use a sharp word, when we make a gesture to brush away a person. So violence isn't merely organized butchery in the name of God, in the name of society or country. Violence is much more subtle, much deeper.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
You don't move just because you want to go from this point to that point - the body has to be using the words as well as you vocally use the words.
~ Eartha Kitt
That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity's small change in general society.
~ Charles Dickens
In any country when you throw something in somebody's face, it's disrespectful.
~ Pitbull
Marlon Brando came up to me many, many years ago. He wanted me to do a little doodle for him on the back of an airline ticket.
~ Peter Max
aku ingin mencintaimu dengan sederhana; dengan kata yang tak sempat diucapkan kayu kepada api yang menjadikannya abu aku ingin mencintaimu dengan sederhana; dengan isyarat yang tak sempat disampaikan awan kepada hujan yang menjadikannya tiada
~ Sapardi Djoko Damono
The touched heart madly stirs, your laughter is water hurrying over pebbles - every gesture is a proclamation, every sound is speech...
~ Sappho
Here you go, dear."" The corners of Mrs. Colbert's mouth curled up. "You like meat, don't you?" Emily blinked. Was it her, or did that statement seem...loaded? She checked Issac for his reaction, but he was innocently selecting a roll from a wicker basket. "Uh, thanks." Emily said, pulling the platter toward her. She did like meat. The kind you, um, eat.
~ Sara Shepard
For the theatre one needs long arms; it is better to have them too long than too short. An artiste with short arms can never, never make a fine gesture.
~ Sarah Bernhardt
Look em in the eye. Make a gesture of inclusion, which he did all the time. And above all, have a chorus. So I learned from Pete Seeger to have something for them to sing.
~ Tom Paxton
While this debate today is a belated effort to inform the American people, it is nevertheless an empty gesture. It is time to admit our mistake in Iraq and begin to bring our troops home with honor.
~ Raul Grijalva
He shook hands with Margaret. He knew it was the first time their hands had met, though she was perfectly unconscious of the fact.
~ Elizabeth Gaskell
I am different when my nails are done. I am more dynamic. I gesticulate more, I am better at scaring my staff. I can indicate impatience by drumming on tabletops and I can wrap up a meeting with a few choice clatters.
~ Marian Keyes
The hands are the heart's messengers.
~ Marianne Moore
I think it must have been my mothers plan to rupture this bright surface, to sail beneath into very blackness, but here she was, wherever my eyes fell, and behind my eyes, whole and in fragments, a thousand images of one gesture, never dispelled but rising always, inevitably, like a drowned woman.
~ Marilynne Robinson
There was no reason for Doane to tie a ribbon on Marcelle's wrist, and that was why she laughed when he did it, and loved him for it.
~ Marilynne Robinson
Lampone made a gesture that said he would be patient, knowing his reward was certain.
~ Mario Puzo