Quotes About Gesture

Peace is present in every breath we take.Peace is present in every loving gesture we make.

If bitterness wants to get into the act, I offer it a cookie or a gumdrop.

Peace. That's what I want all around the world, everywhere I go I always do the peace sign with my fingers.

The attempt to bridge opposing worlds is apparent in the physical structure of Temple Emanu-El itself. Inside, with its pews and pulpit and handsome chandeliers—where hatted women worship alongside the men (unhatted), and not in a separate curtained gallery—it looks very like a church. But outside, as a kind of gentle gesture to the past, its Moorish façade calls to mind a synagogue.

Surprise your children today by doing some unexpected act of kindness. As they take note of your gesture, ask them to do something kind for someone else that is also unexpected.

Jonas taps David on the shoulder, ushering

It only takes a split second to smile and forget, yet to someone that needed it, it can last a lifetime.

Unlike music ... dance has a strong capacity for representation and imitation, which suggests that dance may have further served as an early form of language. Indeed, dance is the quintessential gesture language.

Grief isolates, and every ritual, every gesture, every embrace, is a hopeless effort to break through that isolation. None of it works. The forms crumble and dissolve. To face death is to stand alone.

My boyfriend has always been a collector of art. He once rang up Paul Kenton and asked him to paint a New York skyline for me. He did, and it is the first painting that has ever been painted just for me.

'Shkoff' is to eat. 'Shkiaff' is to slap. Like, 'Gettouttahere I'm gonna give you a couple of shkiaffs,' or, 'Forget presentation, just shkiaff the food onto the plate.'

I used to slap my hip to keep a beat.

To be slapped with a shoe is a dirty insult in the Muslim world.

Whenever I'd find myself talking to someone in the kitchen of their home, I'd automatically rest my arm on the refrigerator, simply because it was most convenient. I had to watch myself pretty close - I didn't mind the dusty sleeve, but that glare from the hostess was something else!

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.

Very often, you did something slow with your arm, for example, and something rapid with your feet - but the arm had to do something large against this - and this set up a kind of opposition.

A high five is a very open kind of hand, but it can still smack you.

The smallest gesture can mean to much to those who may need a little lift in their lives.

If somebody asks for a photo, with a smile, it is nothing.

Every movement reveals us.

De todos modos, nosotros no vemos nada, no vemos más que miradas, no un lugar sino un gesto, y siempre el gesto de las manos, las manos cerradas, las manos que se abren, las manos abiertas del todo.

He took her hand from her head and held it in his. Your beauty could make a rose blush. Are you... drunk?

The dog rose on his hind legs in front of Philip Philipovich and performed obeisance to him.

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