Quotes About Gesture

cradling the soup terrine that she set

I [glanced] at his soldiers with a curling lip. I had learned this gesture from watching Stefano. Apparently it was just as annoying on my face....

Head nodding has its origins in bowing to appear subordinate.

This made a pattern of movement and gesture very effective and it provoked laughter, which is a welcome thing as saving from silence, but also frightening when there are many laughing together -- it is then a sea with strange tides. Players swim in the rise and fall of it and if they lose the mastery they drown.

What I hide by my language, my body utters

Water runs down hill concisely. There is no quibbling about it. It does not have to run up hill in order to be entertaining. Man has always followed its course with fascination. The soul of man may reveal its mysteries through direct expression, simple speech, simple gesture, simple painting, just as the soul of the brook is expressed in full simplicity and economy.

A shiny ring isn't romantic to me. I think thought and love into what you do for the person you're in love with - that's romance.

I can express no kinder sign of love, than this kind kiss.

Is not a kiss the very autograph of love?

When a singer puts his hand on his heart, it means usually, I will always love you!

Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?

Pointing is, as well, a crucial precursor to the development of language.

Jacob cut his gaze to me. I wasn't quiet sure how to convey, /I know we hate him, but based on the circumstances, it was the most logical thing to do/, with a nonverbal signal. I widened my eyes a little.

Never write if you can speak, never speak if you can nod, never nod if you can wink.

I have the ability to sing with emotion and feeling, but if you say I sound like Billie Holiday, that's cool. Let's look at who Billie was: she was this person, this singer, this beautiful diva who could move the audience with the slightest gesture of her hand.

I love bringing roses to a woman when she least expects it.

Writing is drawing, drawing is writing. Because it's the same gesture. They're close already.

Hoje roubei todas as rosas dos jardins e cheguei ao pé de ti de mãos vazias.

I pause when the man at the register lays down a red carnation with my change, says quietly, "This is for you," and turns to the next customer. As I am starting my car I see another woman smiling and stepping into her car, holding a white carnation.

Sometimes he gives a little flourish with his fingers that makes me wonder if all his movements are a quiet performance.

Marcus waves an unseen hand.

The Soviets, in an unprecedented gesture, published the entire address—which called for mutual disarmament—in Pravda. A sense of hope and possibility briefly flared in Washington and Moscow, and other capitals around the world.

I sent my flowers across the hall to Mrs Nixon but her husband remembered what a Democrat I am and sent them back.

What sculptors do is represent the essence of gesture. What is important in mime is attitude.