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Quotes About Gesture

JUST THINK OF THIS AS MY LITTLE GIFT TO YOU, says Owen Meany
~ John Irving
Heather moved her fingers all the while they were walking, as if she were unconsciously playing a piano or an organ.
~ John Irving
I always made an awkward bow.
~ John Keats
Give us a kiss
~ John Lennon
Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.
~ Franz Kafka
I never understood why people take pictures of themselves giving the finger. Was the camera mean to you?
~ Unknown
Every gesture, every touch, every breath you take. The way you smile, the way you talk, and the way you look at me. When I look into your eyes and lose myself in them. When I get close and feel your heart beating fast...that is life.
~ Unknown
I saw the picture of it in his eyes: the great captain walking to him across the fields of asphodel. He would kneel on smoky knees, and Odysseus would gesture him up. They would dwell side by side in the house of the dead. Side by side, where I could never go.
~ Madeline Miller
Ele pegou minha mão. O gesto era como o de um bardo. Mas não estávamos em um tipo de canção? Esse era o refrão que tínhamos praticado com tanta frequência.
~ Madeline Miller
Without missing a beat, Brad pulled her close and Kate found herself at eye level with his shirt pocket.
~ Unknown
10. The most I want to do is show you the end of my index finger. Its muteness.
~ Maggie Nelson
At the simplicity of the gesture, he felt a pang: the raw nerve of his loneliness exposed.
~ Maile Meloy
Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.
~ Malcolm Arnold
Je ne suis pas sûr que mon collègue ait eu raison de lui faire un bras d'honneur alors que le ferry s'éloignait du quai.
~ Marc Levy
Han kysste henne, snabbt och diskret med tanke på alla studenter som strömmade.
~ Marc Levy
Start with your hands held out in front of you like you're going to clap. Now spread your arms out a little wider as you point the tips of your fingers at each other.
~ Marc MacYoung
For people to understand me when I travel, I speak with my hands.
~ Marcel Carne
What sculptors do is represent the essence of gesture. What is important in mime is attitude.
~ Marcel Marceau
At that moment, noticing that his embroidered handkerchief was revealing part of its coloured edging, he thrust it back into his pocket with a startled glance, like a prudish but not innocent woman concealing bodily charms which in her excessive modesty she sees as wanton.
~ Marcel Proust
so beautiful that he could not refrain from moving his lips towards her...
~ Marcel Proust
And then, abruptly, the memory of his dead wife returned to him, and probably thinking it too complicated to inquire into how, at such a time, he could have allowed himself to be carried away by an impulse of happiness, he confined himself to a gesture which he habitually employed whenever any perplexing question came into his mind: that is, he passed his hand across his forehead, dried his eyes, and wiped his glasses. And he
~ Marcel Proust
Her heavenly form Angelick, but more soft and feminine, Her graceful innocence, her every air Of gesture, or least action overawed His malice
~ John Milton
Thus saying, from her husband's hand her hand Soft she withdrew
~ John Milton
The nun said, "I can forgive the language. I'm not sure I can forgive your making an obscene gesture at your mother." "Ya gotta know her," Holland said. "If you knew her, you'd give her the finger, too.
~ John Sandford