Gesture Quotes
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Gesture Quotes & Sayings
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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 hermake — 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
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
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
It is an extravagant gesture,' she said, turning to the torpedo, 'which is just the sort of gesture I like.
— Kamy Wicoff
The formal artistic gesture is already expressed in the act of taking the photograph.
— Luigi Ghirri
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
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
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 waterslowly slides
A gesture a sigh a moan
will provoke his wild teeth
("Silver Clasp") — Paul Dermee
Maybe, it is not the thorn on the rose that we should see, but the beauty of the gesture.
— Shannon L. Alder
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
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
It's disgusting. On trains, the number of those people doing that strange masturbation-like gesture is multiplying.
— Hayao Miyazaki
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
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
Crime, particularly among the poor and downtrodden, is often a last gesture of liberty.
— Isabelle Eberhardt
They represent the most dangerous kind of shape changers: those who cannot see, because of darkness beyond the gesture of the moment
— Jane Urquhart
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 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
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
I am the most spontaneous speaker in the world because every word, every gesture, and every retort has been carefully rehearsed.
— George Bernard Shaw
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
