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Quotes About Gesture

A poem in form still has to have voice, gesture, a sense of discovery, a metaphoric connection, as any poetry does.
~ Robert Morgan
I've learned that when someone does something very kind and refuses payment, giving them an engraved Swiss Army knife is never refused!
~ Christine Lavin
Every gesture is a gesture from the blood, every expression a symbolic utterance... Everything is of the blood, of the senses.
~ Henry Williamson
He took two steps forward and kind of hovered right in front of me for a second, and then he kissed me. And then he stopped and waited. And then I kissed him back. He smiled and ran down the stairs.
~ Rebecca Stead
Ignoring the boy following them, Graham said, "I hope your trip home was pleasant, even if it was alone." "You shouldn't have gotten me a private car. That was excessive." "I was hoping to make up for my absence. Did it?" Her cheeks warmed as she ducked her head. "No. I still would've rather had you." "Oh, love, that's the nicest thing--" He pecked a kiss on her cheek so quickly, she couldn't quite believe it had happened.
~ Regina Jennings
But when the birthday song is imminent, the group is small. There is the possibility that everyone will mouthe.
~ Renata Adler
helped him with his leg, and she hadn't offered to do a single
~ Renee Roszel
The pursuit of beauty. The word is hard to articulate. As soon as you open your moth, it flies off, like a bird of paradise. Beauty can not be caught, but we are obliged to reach for it. Beauty is not neutral; pursuing it is a political act. Building is a grand act, a gesture toward peace, the opposite of destruction.
~ Renzo Piano
Waiter.....check please!
~ Rex Hudler
Patting a shoulder can be anything from an apology to a promise, and only the patter can say which.
~ Rex Stout
He looked down at the mouse he held in his left hand.
~ Rian Hughes
And he got to this woman, came up from behind ... ("So, folks, look me over. If you like what you see ...") and gently, but decidedly, he put his hands on her. In Council Bluffs, Iowa! He got both hands onto her shoulders, while he talked to the crowd over her head, like it was her and him, through thick and thin.
~ Richard Ben Cramer
Gaylord immediately rehabilitated the log house, which had been allowed to become seriously dilapidated.103 The company had no plans for the property; it just wanted to make Bill comfortable. It was a Nashville-style gesture that would be unknown in New York or Hollywood.
~ Richard D. Smith
He was pointing at the moon, but I was looking at his hand.
~ Richard Siken
Oh...my...god,Drew whimpered.Who... Anubis ignored her (bless him for that) and held out his elbow for me - a sweet old-fashioned gesture. May I have this dance? I suppose, I said,as non committally as I could. I looped my arm through his, and we left the Plastic Bags behind us, all of them muttering,Oh my god! Oh my god! No ,actually, I wanted to say. He's my amazingly hot boy god. Find your own.
~ Rick Riordan
I tried to look confused, which is one of my most convincing expressions.
~ Rick Riordan
Father just needed someone to blame. So of course he picked the handsomest, most talented, hopelessly awesome god. Artemis made a gagging gesture.
~ Rick Riordan
Nico glanced back at Coach Hedge. The satyr just made a shooing gesture like, Go. Do your Underworld thing.
~ Rick Riordan
Sure, sis!' Then he raised his hands in a stop everything gesture. 'I feel a haiku coming on.
~ Rick Riordan
We forget that the simple gesture of putting a book in someone's hands can change a life. I want to remind you that it can. I want to thank you because it did. - 2010 Indies Choice Award
~ Kate DiCamillo
I made you something
~ Kate DiCamillo
All right, all right," he said, with that gesture I'd come to hate: two open palms facing me and patting the air, as if pushing me away, pushing me down, pushing any tears I might be preparing to cry back into their ducts.
~ Kathleen Rooney
Is he bothering you? Nah just some old pervert waiting for the sex show. The ghost lips curled If I was alive I'd teach you some manners First I'd- I'm sure there are losts of thing you'd do to me if you were alive, but seeing as though your're not, I guess you're stuck watching... (makes a jerk-off gesture)
~ Kelley Armstrong
We can be dry as dust, distracted and insensible to God's presence. Still we can pray...and if we make even the smallest gesture of availability he will be there.
~ Carol Zaleski