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Quotes About Gesture

he shrugged. The gesture was his armour. His defence. His indifference was a cloak of invisibility behind which he could hide.
~ Camilla Lackberg
Amazing what the word treat can do for a certain someone.
~ Candace Havens
you can have one of mine," he says. "i'll yank one out right now." no, that won't count. It has to be the lash that naturally falls out. " He gets on his knees and starts looking for my lash.
~ Caprice Crane
But I also know that sometimes Adam needs to do things the dramatic way. He is fond of the Grand Gesture
~ Gayle Forman
Except Allyson doesn't know about Saba (yet) or about kishkes (officially speaking, though she knows what they are and how to listen to them and she will never ever stop doing this). And she doesn't have the words to tell Willem what she needs to tell him. So she doesn't use words. She licks her thumb and rubs it against he wrist. Stained. Willem grabs her wrist, rubs his own thumb against it. Does the same to his own wrist, just to make it clear. Stained.
~ Gayle Forman
The first time she had kissed him. The second time he had kissed her. The third time, they kissed each other.
~ Gayle Forman
She shot me a sugar-coated smile. I matched it calorie for calorie.
~ Gemma Halliday
Okay, so maybe he didn't sign it with a heart or an XOXO, but the man was going for coffee. Gotta love that.
~ Gemma Halliday
When I flip you off, run. I've just told you how many seconds you have left to live.
~ Gena Showalter
Roses are red, violets are blue, I have five fingers, the middle one is for you.
~ Gena Showalter
When Ali Bell gives you the finger, she's telling you how many seconds you have to live.
~ Gena ShowalterShowalter
He made a gesture and a man came over from the other side of the room with the bottle, and refilled my snifter.  Having people around to do that is why one strives to be rich.
~ Gene Doucette
"Tehee!" quod she, and clapte the wyndow to.
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
One small gesture of compassion can have a life-changing impact.
~ Irene Hannon
I have seen these persons speak unthinkingly, not realizing that to speak is also to be. Word and gesture are man's thought. We should not speak without reason.
~ Isabel Allende
I was going to take you out to lunch for your birthday . . . but you already are.
~ Anonymous
Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
~ Giuseppe Garibaldi
Say it with flowers.
~ Patrick F. O'Keefe
Stretch out your hand! Let no human soul wait for a benediction.
~ Marie Corelli
The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
~ Heda Bejar
Usually, I'll drop twenty to forty per cent of the dialogue - you can do so much with gesture. I'm still waiting to do a silent film.
~ Ben Foster
When the music is physically demanding, I want to make sure that the effort involved is put across to the audience through physical gesture.
~ Leila Josefowicz
We must love men more than things, and I admire and weep more for the soldiers than for the churches which were only the recording of an heroic gesture which today is reenacted at every moment.
~ Marcel Proust
The engine roared to life. He ran toward her. She shot our of her parking space. He rushed to the side of her car. "Stop it, Kristy! You're overreacting! Let's talk about this." That was when she did the unthinkable. She rolled down the window, thrust out her hand, and gave Reverend Ethan Bonner the bird.
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips