Quotes about Gesture
I have a present for you, but I need to borrow your arms for wrapping paper.
- Anonymous
The way to fight a woman is with your hat. Grab it and run.
- John Barrymore
Not for the world would he have made a significant to her, though it seemed to him that his life hung on her next gesture.
- Edith Wharton
The face she lifted to her dancers was the same which, when she saw him, always looked like a window that has caught the sunset. He even noticed two or three gestures which, in his fatuity, he had thought she kept for him: a way of throwing her head back when she was amused, as if to taste her laugh before she let it out, and a trick of sinking her lids slowly when anything charmed or moved her.
- Edith Wharton
Suddenly he stopped in front of me and asked for a cigarette. I had a package of Players in my pocket and wanted to give them to him. But he refused to take the whole package, saying quite calmly that obviously he didn't have time to smoke them all.
- Elie Wiesel
And in trying to protect the image of God in them, we just might be protecting the image of God in ourselves in the process. Because with every decision, conversation, gesture, comment, action, and attitude, we're inviting heaven or hell to earth.
- Rob Bell
The most romantic things a man can do for a woman are the little things that let her know that she's on his mind and in his heart.
- Joshua Harris
Tis not important how the hero does this or this, but what he is. What he is will appear in every gesture and syllable. In this way the moment and the character are one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Emily peered at him and frowned, then began to dance on the grass. "Okay, Daddy," Emily said. "When you're ready to dance with me, this is what you do. First, you put your right hand around my waist like this, then hold your other hand out like this. Then we sway back and forth to the music." Face animated, she gestured gracefully while talking, lost in the moment
- Randy Alcorn
Bless you, my boy. Have a horseshoe." "Thank you, sir. What should I do with it?" "Throw it." "Away?" "At that peg there. Then pick it up and throw it at this
- Joseph Heller