Gesture Quotes

376 quotes by 304 authors

Every gesture is a revolutionary act. — Fernando Pessoa
There we were - demented children mincing about in clothes that no one ever wore, speaking as no man ever spoke, swearing love in wigs… — Tom Stoppard
somewhere i have never traveled, gladly beyond any experience, your eyes have their silence; in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me, or… — E E Cummings
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… — George Orwell
I paused for a light at Hamilton and TWlfth and noticed the Nissan was running rough at idle. Two blocks later it backfired and stalled.… — Janet Evanovich
But that was the thing about zero. Its weakness. Even if zero had taken over the entire universe, the biggest fascist of all, one tiny… — Janet Fitch
I dedicate the merit of the occasion to all beings. This gesture of universal friendship has been likened to a drop of fresh spring water.… — Pema Chodron
At the simplicity of the gesture, he felt a pang: the raw nerve of his loneliness exposed. — Maile Meloy
Ascension seemed at such times a natural law. If one added to it a law of completion - that everything must finally be made comprehensible… — Marilynne Robinson
Enter my first neighbor - a woman who spoke in complete, coherent sentences, who ate with a knife and fork and who only cried at… — Erma Bombeck
Everything comes down to this: the reason for every word I have written and every word I will write. I am recounting my life for… — Arthur Japin
And still it is not enough to have memories. One must be able to forget them when they are many, and one must have the… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Clary closed her eyes. Remembering the way Jace had looked at her the night she'd freed Ithuriel, she couldn't help but imagine the way he'd… — Cassandra Clare
The quality of ideas seems to play a minor role in mass movement leadership. What counts is the arrogant gesture, the complete disregard of the… — Eric Hoffer
# "I saw the most beautiful cat today. It was sitting by the side of the road, its two front feet neatly and graciously together.… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
At times our need for a sympathetic gesture is so great that we care not what exactly it signifies or how much we may have… — E. M. Forster
Ordinarily, of course, I thought it best to remain inconspicuous, but the gesture had a certain irresistable theatricaility, and an inevitablility. Sometimes you can feel… — Curtis Sittenfeld
But I also know that sometimes Adam needs to do things the dramatic way. He is fond of the Grand Gesture — Gayle Forman
The Simi gots some barbecue sauce in her bag. It kind of looks like blood if you squint at it the right way. And it… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
But she still had that something which fires the imagination, could still stop one's breath for a moment by a look or gesture that somehow… — Willa Cather

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