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Quotes About Gesture

Her hand moved higher, tracing his
~ David Baldacci
So listen -- one way to lower the flag to half-mast is just to lower the flag. There's another way though. You can also just raise the pole. You can raise the pole to like twice it's original height.
~ David Foster Wallace
Their faces was different and their wife's faces in the truck, fine and showing teeth and him with a arm around the Mrs. and a wave at Daddy as they back out.
~ David Foster Wallace
Do you bite your thumb at us, sir? SAMPSON [Aside to Gregory]: Is the law of our side, if I say ay? GREGORY [Aside to Sampson]: No. SAMPSON: No, sir, I do not bite my thumb at you, sir, but I bite my thumb, sir.
~ William Shakespeare
My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.
~ William Shakespeare
And palm to palm is holy palmers' kiss.
~ William Shakespeare
Ross si avvicinò alla porta, vi appoggiò contro una mano. Gli occhi di lei adesso erano quasi asciutti e straordinariamente scuri.
~ Winston Graham
Then she saw him stop and wipe his brow with his handkerchief. Once, twice. And then once again. But she did not see the grin of relief spread over his face. That she did not see because her eyes had filled with tears. And the geraniums, they were just as sad. In any case, that's how they smelled.
~ WOLFGANG BORCHERT
Yes! Practice-singular!' the wise men screamed in unison. Three index fingers, like punctuation marks, jumped to attention in the air to emphasize their point (Life of Pi 68).
~ Yann Martel
Did you just say shrug instead of actually shrugging?
~ Chuck Wendig
Maybe none of my opponents ever gave me flowers before," she mumbled.
~ Cinda Williams Chima
Logan lowers his head close to mine. 'Just know this, Ivy Calhhoun,' he begins. 'If I werena a ghost I would open all door for you, properly.
~ Unknown
Alex touches her arm. "You look nice." "Nice?" she repeats. "Try harder, Alex." He flushes adorably. "Really nice," he says. "Next time, try this," Harry says. He reaches for my hand. "Franny, I didn't know what beauty was until I saw you walking toward us a minute ago. "I like this better," I say, pulling away. "At least he sounded like he meant it." "I meant it," Harry says, almost irritably.
~ Claire LaZebnik
Words work as release--well-oiled doors opening and closing between intention, gesture.
~ Claudia Rankine
Words work as release—well-oiled doors opening and closing between intention, gesture. A pulse in a neck, the shiftiness of the hands, an unconscious blink, the conversations you have with your eyes translate everything and nothing. What will be needed, what goes unfelt, unsaid—what has been duplicated, redacted here, redacted there, altered to hide or disguise—words encoding the bodies they cover. And despite everything the body remains.
~ Claudia Rankine
Siempre te ha gustado escribir, no importaba el qué, escribir y ya está; es el gesto lo que cuenta, gesto de poeta, gesto de rey, soberano albedrío sobre las pobres vocales y consonantes que aparecena tus órdenes y se ponen en fila, march en, alienación derech, rompan filas.
~ Claudio Magris
Bless your little cotton socks," he said. He threw me a kiss and handed me the case file.
~ Clifford Irving
Body language is good enough to express yourself.
~ Unknown
Learn how to bow. It is an old gesture of respect, honor and pride.
~ Unknown
He makes a gesture, designed to impersonate frankness.
~ Hilary Mantel
We shall have to develop a hand signal for "Back off, our prince is fucking this man's daughter." He is surprised the Italians have not done it.
~ Hilary Mantel
long moment. Ben raised his eyebrows.
~ Holly Black
Then I raise my blade, presenting it to my opponent. I salute her in the mirror.
~ Holly Black
Rhyia leaned over and pushed a fallen strand of his hair back over one of his ears. 'Take it.' 'You want me to have it?' he asked, just to be sure. He wondered what he'd done that was worthy of being commemorated with a present. 'I thought you could use a little nonsense,' she told him, which worried him a little.
~ Holly Black