Gestures Quotes - Page 8

For a guy who is always banging on about the masculine virtues, Nixon had this remarkable proclivity for very dainty gestures.

Remember that a gesture of friendship, no matter how small, is always appreciated.

Almost as swiftly as he had imagined it, she had torn her clothes off, and when she flung them aside it was with that same magnificent gesture by which a whole civilization seemed to be annihilated.

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

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

Gestures are all that I have; sometimes they must be grand in nature.

Can we not will ourselves to achieve the impossible? Can we not use the power of our life force to change something: one small thing, one insignificant moment, one breath, one gesture? Is there nothing we can do to change what is around us?

A chimpanzee who is really gearing up for a fight doesn't waste time with gestures but just goes ahead and attacks.

Every gesture is a revolutionary act.

I walk along a street and see in the faces of the passersby not the expression they really have but the expression they would have for me if they knew about my life and how I am, if I carried, transparent in my gestures and my face, the ridiculous, timid abnormality of my soul.

A period film, where you, for example, where you have a traditional wardrobes, you are bound to act a certain way. But in a modern film, a lot of body gesture.

Being shown a gesture of love is like being offered a portion of God.

I wore it, this careless thing you don't even remember giving to me from your bag. It wasn't a gift, this thing I'm returning. It was barely a gesture, almost forgotten already, this thing I wore like it was dear to me. And it was. No wonder we broke up.

It's hard enough to be a heterosexual playing gay and not having the gay gestures.

Yo, yo, yo, check it out," said PJ, with enough hand gestures that any deaf person watching would have thought he had ASL Tourette's syndrome

I kick kittens. I made rude gestures at nuns.

Even in your smallest gestures, you express your sense of honor, if you have one.

It is hard for me to imagine that I felt good about behaving like that. I also remember that the smallest gesture of affection would bring a lump to my throat, whether it was directed at me or at someone else. Sometimes all it took was a scene in a movie. This juxtaposition of callousness and extreme sensitivity seemed suspicious even to me.

I try to do romantic gestures all the time.

We have lost the art of public tenderness, these small gestures of wiping and washing; we have forgotten how abjectly the body welcomes a formal touch.

I want to become less and less about the laptop. That's what's lovely about an orchestra - the physicality, the way every gesture relates to something you're hearing.