Quotes About Gesture

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There is a great deal to be seen in the tilt of a hat on a man.

Joseph saw how he could make a gesture with his arms and hands, that would sweep in and indicate and symbolize the ripe stars and the whole cup of the sky, the land, eddied with black trees, and the crested waves that were the mountains, an earth storm, frozen in the peak of its rushing, or stone breakers moving eastward with infinite slowness. Joseph wondered whether there were any words to say these things. He said, I like the night. It's more strong than the day.

All art is an intensely vulnerable gesture, and it is made with no small amounts of risk, and fear. So, I have plenty of sympathy for self-defense mechanisms, especially among artists.

For, as far as these important diplomats are concerned, to look at you in a certain way is intended to convey to you not that they have seen you but that they have not, and that they have some serious matter

to our paying too much attention to the aspect, the manners of what a person is not but would like to be, in forming our first impression of that person. To the outward appearance affectation, imitation, the longing to be admired, whether by the good or by the wicked, add misleading similarities of speech and gesture.

Oh, that's lovely wrist action you've got there. Fancy coming into the larder with me and earning yourself five woodbines?

I carried Torsten's plate over to the table, placing

Her last glimpse of them was as they stood waving vigorously -- Mr. Meare to the left, his wife to the right; it had to be thus, because they were also hand-in-hand.

Never ask a trader if he is profitable: you can easily see it in his gesture and gait.

Breaking a glass in the northwest is rather like belching in Arabia, for it appears to be done as a mark of appreciation or elation.

Just the other day in the Underground I enjoyed the pleasure of offering my seat to three ladies.

Every day I wake up and I really try to pinch myself to take advantage of today and to use that freedom of gesture to do what I really like to do.

Every time a baseball player grabs his crotch, it makes him spit. That's why you should never date a baseball player.

Non è il viso che colpisce, ma le espressioni... non è il corpo che ci piace, ma il modo in cui si muove... non è spesso l'aspetto fisico che ci attrae... ma sono i modi di fare di una persona.

Un simple gesto, una determinada forma de mirar, un comentario aparentemente trivial, puede desencadenar de manera automática y casi inmediata una gran reacción emocional.

A wink is like no other gesture. It's like a secret smile, a whisper with your face.

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a simple lonely action.

If I raised my hand to wipe the hair out of my children's eyes, they'd flinch and call their attorney.

If I'm out to dinner with a group of friends, and somebody offers to pay for the check, I immediately reach for my wallet. Inside is a note that says, "Say thanks!"

The wider you spread your fingers apart while clapping is equal to the amount of retarded you look while clapping.

I felt my cheeks turn red, and she laughed out loud. But I didn't mind too much, because the last thing she saw was my middle finger aimed in her direction as I stepped outside

As he pulls away from her, his gaze meets mine, and we stare at each other for one long moment before I slowly raise my left hand and give him the middle finger.

Patch leaned back against the booth and arched his eyebrows at me. The gesture said it all: Pay up."You got lucky, " I