Gestures Quotes

552 Gestures quotes by 444 unique authors

Kisses open doors, I've noticed. That one gesture can unlock secrets, ease open feelings. It can't be prevented--these kisses just are. It's how they work.… — Susan Fletcher
How do our lives ravel out into the no-wind, no-sound, the weary gestures wearily recapitulant: echoes of old compulsions with no-hand on no-string: in sunset… — William Faulkner
I am the drying meadow; you the unspoken apology; he is the fluctuating distance between mother and son; she is the first gesture that creates… — Aimee Bender
Even in your smallest gestures, you express your sense of honor, if you have one. — Brian Morton
To him she seemed so beautiful, so seductive, so different from ordinary people, that he could not understand why no one was as disturbed as… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
To bow to the fact of our life's sorrows and betrayals is to accept them; and from this deep gesture we discover that all life… — Jack Kornfield
When we both experienced the love that consumes, we shared in the Absolute. The Absolute shows each of us who we really are; it is… — Paulo Coelho
Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye, in every gesture dignity and love. — John Milton
My most persistent memory of stand - up is of my mouth being in the present and my mind being in the future: the mouth… — Steve Martin
They belonged to that vast group of human automata who go through life without neglecting to perform a single one of the gestures executed by… — Edith Wharton
All these are readers, and their gestures, their craft, the pleasure, the responsibility and the power they derive from reading, are common with mine. I… — Alberto Manguel
Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith. — Franz Kafka
Jack: Actually, I was found. Lady Bracknell: Found? Jack: Uh, yes, I was in... a handbag. Lady Bracknell: A handbag? Jack: Yes, it was... [makes… — Oscar Wilde
What stops me from taking myself seriously, even though I am essentially a serious person, is that I find myself extremely ridiculous, not in the… — Gustave Flaubert
When he painted a road, the roadmakers were there in his imagination, when he painted the turned earth of a ploughed field, the gesture of… — John Berger
Love, love, love – all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced… — Germaine Greer
Verses are not, as people think, feelings (those one has early enough) -- they are experiences. For the sake of a verse one must see… — Rainer Maria Rilke
He walked on without resting. He had a terrible longing for some distraction, but he did not know what to do, what to attempt. A… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
What a mystery blood was -- how did a tiny gesture, a tome of voice, endure through generations like the harder verities of flesh? He… — Diana Gabaldon
Thus I progressed on the surface of life, in the realm of words as it were, never in reality. All those books barely read, those… — Albert Camus
I want to throw up because we're supposed to quietly and politely make house in this killing machine called America and pay taxes to support… — David Wojnarowicz
Arrogance is in everything I do. It is in my gestures, the harshness of my voice, in the glow of my gaze, in my sinewy,… — Coco Chanel
I'll wager at the end a body realizes the Lord has already shown Himself. That things as they are -- her hand circles in a… — Truman Capote
The charitable say in effect, 'I seem to have more than I need and you seem to have less than you need. I would like… — Maya Angelou
Every important cultural gesture comes down to a morality, a model for human behavior concentrated into a gesture. — Hermann Hesse

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