Quotes About Gesture

Sometimes I wave to people I don't know. It's very dangerous to wave to someone you don't know, because what if they don't have a hand? They'll think you're cocky. 'Look what I got... This thing is useful. I'm gonna go pick somethin' up.'

I speak two languages, Body and English.

I shook hands with a friendly Arab. I still have my right arm to prove it.

I frankly felt like the reception we received on the way in from the airport was very warm and hospitable. And I want to thank the Canadian people who came out to wave -- with all five fingers -- for their hospitality.

When women kiss it always reminds one of prize-fighters shaking hands.

What did that mean, to kiss? You put your face up like that to say goodnight and then his mother put her face down. That was to kiss. His mother put her lips on his cheek; her lips were soft and they wetted his cheek; and they made a tiny little noise: kiss. Why did people do that with their two faces?

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.

You can change everything around you with one gesture of Love.

A kiss is a secret told to the mouth instead of the ear; kisses are the messengers of love and tenderness.

Human love is a fragile creation, and sometimes the smallest thing - the wrong choice of words or a single clumsy gesture - can make love shatter, stall or fade away.

Nothing is more revealing than movement. The body says what words cannot.

Morane gestured them to some seats near the front, but close to the archway. Probably Nicholas's preference, in case someone threw a bomb. Or in case he decided to throw one.

It was giving me the etymology of the gesture as I sat down. You would think a SecUnit who had been shot to pieces multiple times, blown up, memory purged, and once partially dismantled by accident wouldn't be on the verge of panic under these circumstances. You'd be wrong.

how gracious seem the small gifts that may come - a patch of sunlight on a cold floor, an unexpected gesture of friendship, the fragrant steam of hot tea.

it is (often) the quiet gesture which carries the most significance - the one which suddenly directs the symphony.

He turned to her - his gesture a superb compound of relief, remorse, passionate candour and bewilderment touched with curiosity; confidence and perfect penitence. Against which Scylla had to brace herself. Against such bravura how dull truth seemed, and difficult to access. Never had the bottom of a well seemed less attractive. She must hear him first. She could go down later.

Robert pointed at Lacey and then made the sign for "hearing," but instead of making it at his mouth, he made it at his forehead. It was a sign given to Deaf people who acted like hearing people. It wasn't a compliment.

A kiss is a lovely trick, designed by nature, to stop words when speech becomes superfluous.

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

When a man brings his wife flowers for no reason, there's a reason.

If you want to say it with flowers, a single rose says : "I'm cheap!

Suddenly, he jammed his hat crookedly on his head, took two broad paces toward her, and lifted her out of her chair by her shoulders. He kissed her hard and quick, then set her back in the chair and left without looking back.

Simply to live does not justify existence, for life is a mere gesture on the surface of the earth, and death a return to that from which we had never been wholly separated; but oh to leave a trace, no matter how faint, of that brief gesture! For someone, some day, may find it beautiful! —Frank O'Hara1

the table to wipe her face. An instant later Carter