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Quotes About Gesture

Latins are tenderly enthusiastic. In Brazil they throw flowers at you. In Argentina they throw themselves.
~ Marlene Dietrich
Sometimes the way through someone's tough outer shell is to do something obvious, thoughtful and sweet.
~ Amy Dickinson
Maybe it's just me but I would suspect that a man trying to impress a woman would be more likely to bring out the steak - "I killed this for you, now I'm grilling it for you."
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
He held his hand out to me without speaking; and it was then, as I went to him like a falcon flying to his fist, that I realized I loved him.
~ Teresa Denys
She kissed me, and my mouth wrote a poem of welcome to her lips.
~ Terri Guillemets
It was on the 1958 tour that Ellington met Queen Elizabeth II in London. 'Struck speechless' by her grace, he responded with one of his most elegant gestures, writing with Strayhorn a piece called 'The Queen's Suite', then recording it and having a single copy of the album pressed for her alone.
~ Terry Teachout
A gentleman is not for his gender, A gentleman known by his good jester
~ the omani shed
I think it is the fact that birds are two-legged, like us, which gives them something of our balance and gesture and makes them nearer to us.
~ Quentin Blake
There's no problem with a guard of honour in any way.
~ Ernesto Valverde
Tell me, was I the sort of person who took your elbow when cars passed on the street, touched your cheek while you talked, combed your wet hair, stopped by the side of the road in the country to point out certain constellations, standing behind you so that you had the advantage of leaning and looking up?
~ Nicole Krauss
Sometimes these misunderstandings were even desirable, since they gave people a reason to say 'Forgive me, I was only scratching my nose. Of course I know I've always been right to love you.' Because of the frequency of these mistakes, over time the gesture for asking forgiveness evolved into the simplest form. Just to open your palm was to say: Forgive me.
~ Nicole Krauss
I took a drink, wiping my mouth with the back of my hand, repeating the gesture that was made a hundred times by my father and his father and his father's father, eyes half closed as the sharpness of the alcohol replaced the sharpness of grief.
~ Nicole Krauss
Cand te tii cu cineva de mana, de pilda, e un mod de a-ti aduce aminte cum e cand nu spuneti nimic impreuna. Si noaptea, cand e prea intuneric ca sa mai vedem ceva, simtim nevoia sa gesticulam cu ajutorul trupului celuilalt, pentru a ne face intelesi.
~ Nicole Krauss
He gave her a quick, casual kiss on the cheek first. Then came the hug, and it was the hug that always made Laurel's heart mush. Serious grip, cheek to the hair, eyes closed, just a little sway. Del's hugs mattered, she thought, and made him impossible to resist.
~ Nora Roberts
N-aÅŸ putea s? dorm aici? Jack se ridic? ÅŸi o ridic? ÅŸi pe ea. Ea zâmbi adormit?, petrecându-ÅŸi braÅ£ele pe dup? gâtul lui. - Ador când faci asta. - Å¢i-ai câÅŸtigat dreptul s? fii purtat? pe sus. Noapte bun? tuturor.
~ Nora Roberts
I have to go. I'll just say goodbye to David and Theo. Pilar kissed Maddy lightly, absently on the cheek, and made the girl's color come up. See you later. Yeah, okay. How come they're for me? she asked Tyler. Because I hear you did good. He held them out. You want them or not? Yeah, I want them. She took them, noted the little flutter in her belly as she sniffed. A kind of muscle reflex, she supposed it was. A nice one. Nobody ever gave me flowers before.
~ Nora Roberts
As she spoke, as she looked out over the garden, Pilar ran a hand absently over Maddy's hair, left it lying on her shoulder. The gesture made everything inside the girl go warm. And made her sigh. What's wrong?
~ Nora Roberts
coffeepot, Glenna gave Blair's arm an absent stroke. "Give you a
~ Nora Roberts
have read my mind." As she moved to the coffeepot, Glenna gave Blair's arm an absent stroke. "Give you a hand?" "No, I got this. You've been taking the lion's
~ Nora Roberts
She reached out, found Eli's hand, brought it to her lips in a gesture Sophia had never seen her make
~ Nora Roberts
I know that when a supersexy older girl with hips and breasts and nice hair wants to take off your glasses and to paint you a smoky eye she's merely trying to enroll you in a beauty contest she's already won. It's a kind of slummy, condescending gesture, like when rich people ask poor people where they summer. To me, this smacks of a blatant, insensitive let them eat cake type of chauvinism.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Each romance, the type of self-destructive gesture Hedda Hopper would call marry-kiri.Instead of plunging a sword into one's stomach, you repeatedly throw yourself on the most inappropriate erect penis.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
The way to make most women break eye contact is to run your tongue around your lips. The ones who dont look away, for serious, bingo.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Her legs are crossed at the knee and ankle.
~ Chuck Palahniuk