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Actors cannot choose the manner in which they are born. Consequently, it is the one gesture in their lives completely devoid of self-consciousness. — Helen Hayes

My glitchy adolescent brain was desperate for causalities, for conspiracies that drenched every word, every gesture, with meaning. — Emma Cline

You can't fling the hands up in a passionate gesture when you are driving a car at fifty miles an hour. Otherwise, I should have done so. — P.G. Wodehouse

She reached out, found Eli's hand, brought it to her lips in a gesture Sophia had never seen her
make — Nora Roberts

Remember that a gesture of friendship, no matter how small, is always appreciated. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

A poem in form still has to have voice, gesture, a sense of discovery, a metaphoric connection, as any poetry does. — Robert Morgan

Maybe it is only a quiet, day-to-day loyalty that is worth having; maybe the grand love or the great gesture is always doomed. — Natasha Walter

Never raise your hand menacingly, but only in a friendly gesture! — Sophie Von La Roche

Sometimes, all it takes is one gesture, one word, to change the course of someone's life. Even if you know it won't last forever. — Jean-Claude Izzo

I can only gesture at what makes a story good. — Leonard Michaels

All my life I have struggled to make one authentic gesture ... — Isadora Duncan

Create reciprocity in your business by making the first gesture, like make a comment on the blog of a great speaker. — Lisa A. Mininni

God is present in the sweeping gesture, but the devil is in the details. — John Darnielle

There were those whose love spilled over into their every gesture, and so was shared by all who knew them. But they were rare folk indeed. — Juliet Marillier

I think it is the fact that birds are two-legged, like us, which gives them something of our balance and gesture and makes them nearer to us. — Quentin Blake

Hence it is from the representation of things spoken by means of posture and gesture that the whole of the art of dance has been elaborated. — Plato

The voting records of virtually every member of Congress reveal that the oath of office is more a ceremonial gesture than a sacred commitment. — Tom Coburn

Thought's surface: word.
Word's surface: gesture.
Gesture's surface: skin.
Skin's surface: shiver. — Vera Pavlova

But the Indians gesture touched me. It was nothing, but it was everthing. It took so little to mane a difference. — Ingrid Betancourt

As governor, when I visited our troops in Kuwait and Iraq, I served them Thanksgiving dinner. It was a small gesture compared to their sacrifice. — Jennifer Granholm

We effect more than we can possibly know. With every mood, every thought, every word, every gesture, we change our lives and our universe. — Maharishi Sadasiva Isham

I apologize if my limbic system has misinterpreted your gesture of emotional support. — Neal Stephenson

He found that it was easy to make a heroic gesture, but hard to abide by its results. — W. Somerset Maugham

The fact that I had been on the point of making a similar heroic gesture was quite ignored, and this only increased my irritation. — Wilbur Smith

Thus drivers inching southward will see the phalanx of birds heading west as one spontaneous gesture. — Rae Armantrout

Against the charitable gesture there is no defence. — Samuel Beckett

Adam thinks he saw an apparition at his place."
Ronan eyed Noah. "I'm seeing an apparition right now."
Noah made a rude gesture [ ... ]. — Maggie Stiefvater

I like to use research to enlarge the poem. And sometimes a rhetorical or syntactical gesture stitches the poem along. — Alison Hawthorne Deming

Every gesture was one of disorder and violence, as if a lioness had come into the room. — Anais Nin

It is an extravagant gesture,' she said, turning to the torpedo, 'which is just the sort of gesture I like. — Kamy Wicoff

Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eyes. In every gesture, dignity and love. — J.D. Robb

The formal artistic gesture is already expressed in the act of taking the photograph. — Luigi Ghirri

Frank waved his arms in a frustrated gesture. "The Cubs? C-U-B-S, Cubs? Doesn't that stand for 'Completely Useless By September'? — Kim Stokely

The gesture with which one generation guards the next is the movement, and the only time we see it clearly, of life itself. — Storm Jameson

For me, the 'Three Stoppages' was a first gesture liberating me from the past. — Marcel Duchamp

I made a seesaw gesture with my hand. — Stephen King

But I also know that sometimes Adam needs to do things the dramatic way. He is fond of the Grand Gesture — Gayle Forman

We are as ignorant of the meaning of our least gesture as we are of life itself. — Marty Rubin

A writer will divine a metaphor from a pattern on a dress, or a gesture, because sunsets have been done before. — Brandi L. Bates

In a hot greenish body of water
slowly slides
A gesture a sigh a moan
will provoke his wild teeth
("Silver Clasp") — Paul Dermee

And that is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment at a time. — Libba Bray

And also, where an outstretched hand is no longer a gesture but a moment of love, lasting until sleep, until waking, until everyday life. — Kim Thuy

Maybe, it is not the thorn on the rose that we should see, but the beauty of the gesture. — Shannon L. Alder

We see this tendency to throw off restraints in life, in art - it's an inglorious gesture of thumbing the nose - it makes me laugh ... — John Geddes

Whenever I go to bars in London, people send me over Cosmopolitans. It's a very sweet gesture, but I don't like them, so they just sit there. — Kim Cattrall

In a gesture of socialist support, the Dear Leader placed his hand upon her. — Adam Johnson

Today, with the way things are in all circles, in soccer, in society, in politics, where it seems anything goes, a gesture of honesty goes down well. — Ivan Fernandez Anaya

Each single gesture of art must be daring. One must not be concerned with the side-effects. — Toni Servillo

This was a man who moved like the gods were watching: every gesture he made was upright and correct. There was no one else it could be but Hector — Madeline Miller

Investments are a real partnership, with an expected return; donations are a gesture made as a result of ethical, religious, or political passions. — Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

In the post-Warhol era a single gesture such as uncrossing one's legs will have more significance than all the pages in War and Peace. — J.G. Ballard

Why do people always gesture with their hands when they talk on the phone? — Jonathan Carroll

At the first gesture of morning, flies began stirring. — Charles Frazier

Postmodernism surely requires an even greater grasp of symbolism, as it's increasingly an art of gesture alone. — Andrew Eldritch

V?" Butch said. "Don't leave, okay?"
"Never." V brushed Butch's hair back with a gesture so tender it was out of place coming from a male. — J.R. Ward

chest, pressing damp cotton against her skin, the ball of his thumb down in her cleavage. Not a tender gesture. — Lee Child

The extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation. — Annie Dillard

Some days I am all about the ironic gesture — Lauren Baratz-Logsted

A woman shouldn't have to pressure a man into romance or else the gesture doesn't mean anything. — Dannika Dark

What is a rebel? Someone who says no. But saying no does not mean giving up: it also means saying yes, with every gesture. — Albert Camus

Lampone made a gesture that said he would be patient, knowing his reward was certain. — Mario Puzo

It's disgusting. On trains, the number of those people doing that strange masturbation-like gesture is multiplying. — Hayao Miyazaki

Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence. — Henri Matisse

Parvati took his hand. It was such a strange, unexpected gesture that he just blinked and stared at it.
"I'll protect you. — Sarwat Chadda

I have a big problem with conductors who gesture a lot. — James Levine

Love was just a word until someone expressed it with a gesture. — Annie Nicholas

Pay attention, he thinks. Not to the grand gesture, but to the passing breath. — Lauren Groff

At the simplicity of the gesture, he felt a pang: the raw nerve of his loneliness exposed. — Maile Meloy

But in love each moment is magnified, and every gesture, word and syllable is examined like a speech by the President. — Hanif Kureishi

Elodie made a gesture that was pretty easy to interpret. — Rachel Hawkins

They are poets of gesture. — George Balanchine

Sad but true that nothing puts a woman in her place more effectively than a chivalrous gesture performed in a certain manner. — Pat Barker

Crime, particularly among the poor and downtrodden, is often a last gesture of liberty. — Isabelle Eberhardt

Research tells us liars tend to gesture less, touch less, and move their arms and legs less than honest people (Vrij, 2003, 65). — Joe Navarro

They represent the most dangerous kind of shape changers: those who cannot see, because of darkness beyond the gesture of the moment — Jane Urquhart

Charity is a nice gesture, but it only offers temporary relief. But if he can change the law, the benefits for the poor will last longer. — Aya Ling

Every unkind remark or crude gesture by others is a blessing, an opportunity to exercise our own capacity to forgive. — Chuck Palahniuk

If you want a symbolic gesture, don't burn the flag; wash it. — Norman Thomas

Morality's not practical. Morality's a gesture. A complicated gesture learnt from books. — Robert Bolt

And he raised his glass to her. It could have been a compliment. Or the most sarcastic gesture anyone had ever made to her. — Lisa Kleypas

I'll be honest, I felt an urge to squeeze him like a kitten and that led to the gesture I made. There was nothing behind it really. — Vladimir Putin

I think that reaching out to kids that feel really isolated is a life saving gesture that we have a responsibility as older queers to do. — Margaret Cho

I was a Shakespearean actor, I had preconceived ideas, line readings - everything was a gesture, everything was conscious. — Dennis Hopper

It's a rather rude gesture, but at least it's clear what you mean. — Katharine Hepburn

Kiss is another physical gesture if it doesn't touch your soul. — Pushpa Rana

Telephone conversations are so inadequate, so lacking in expression and gesture and everything. — Jo Walton

Admit when you're wrong. It doesn't fix a busted leg, of course, but it's a nice gesture none-the-less. — Jesse Petersen

I thought of betrayal and how it came so easily - in a word, a glance, a gesture. — Juliet Marillier

You pierce me with a look, a word, a gesture. And yet those same weapons could shield me from hurt if you so choose. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Ico took the girls hand in his own, the gesture feeling intensely familiar, as the sun shone brightly over the end of their long story. — Miyuki Miyabe

I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates. — Oleg Cassini

The usual," said Ron indifferently, demonstrating a rude hand gesture. — J.K. Rowling

I am the most spontaneous speaker in the world because every word, every gesture, and every retort has been carefully rehearsed. — George Bernard Shaw

Is a gesture of charity genuine or is it a kind of deep moral tax write-off? — Padgett Powell

Gesture will survive whatever kind of light you have. Gesture can triumph over anything because of its narrative content. — Jay Maisel

Yes!" Belen raises his fist in a victory gesture. "We shall save the world from Invierne with slings! — Rae Carson

The quintessential good and beauty in life is what each has to offer to others valuing the gesture ourselves into confluence with the Word of God. — Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

Apology is the most courageous gesture we can make to ourselves. — John Kador

You were at the age where you could fall in love with a girl over an expression, over a gesture — Junot Diaz

Every man has a different idea of what's beautiful, and it's best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and let the mind create the tree. — William Faulkner