Quotes About Gesture

You don't always talk with your mouth. Sometimes what you say with your mouth hardly matters at all. You have to signify

Then he closed his eyes and put his hands together again before his face, finger to finger. Johnny was struck by the kid's lack of pretension. There was a simplicity about the gesture that had been honed by use into beauty.

I've learned that you know your husband still loves you when there are two brownies left and he takes the smaller one.

It is impossible not to love someone who makes toast for you.

here …' He placed a hand on the upper part of his chest.

she would catch the gesture: she always had

And then he kissed me. He did it so casually that I almost didn't register what he was doing. He leaned forward and kissed me on the lips, like it was something he'd done a million times before, like it was the natural end to all our lunch dates.

in the way her long thin fingers fiddled with a sugar cube, in the way she held his eye when she spoke, in the way he wanted to reach across and tuck a stray wisp of hair back behind her ear.

he rubbed his feet back and forth on the library carpet and when she walked by, he touched her with the tip of his index finger

Then I realized he was still holding my hand.

Who does not dislike a "boneless" hand extended as though it were a spray of sea-weed, or a miniature boiled pudding?

la libertà dell'uomo tocca il suo vertice: il gesto dell'offerta, quel gesto di amore a Dio e agli uomini che riesce «incomprensibile» al mondo,

up from her seat and walked around the table. She put her head on Natalie's shoulder and put an arm around her, holding her giraffe in her other hand. Natalie

The quality of ideas seems to play a minor role in mass movement leadership. What counts is the arrogant gesture, the complete disregard of the opinion of others, the singlehanded defiance of the world.

She made an ancient and arcane gesture at the machine with one finger.

I wanted to thank you again, for the other night." "No thanks necessary. Really." "And for the shoes. You know, for bringing them back to me." "I couldn't wear them," He paused a moment. "They didn't fit.

Was it possible for the living to haunt their fellow creatures? For something as intangible as the mere memory of a gesture to slip into the subconscious unbidden and remain there until some firing synapse, some chemical key set it free?

She brought me a crow's feather...," he whispered.

She touched his sleeve, drawing her hand away at once, as if burned by the contact, but with practiced subtlety.

with a smile. Then she pushed one

aceite juntó su pringosa suavidad con la acritud astringente del vino, y batidos y juntados sellaron el pacto, cuando los dedos gordezuelos de Nazaria vendaban aquella frente merecedora del yugo para tirar de un arado.

Jeremiah was the godly messenger who warned the corrupt priests of the Holy Temple that their bronze and gold would be taken away and their Temple destroyed unless they cleaned up the corruption within. He is covering his mouth in the signum harpocraticum, a gesture signifying that a profound esoteric knowledge occupies his thoughts.

Trotsky rises to give me his hand, then sits at his desk, gently allowing his regard to light on my person.

If a man holds a door open for me or pulls back a chair so that this old bag can sit down, I'm delighted.