Gesture Quotes

“You see the first thing we love is a scene. For love at first sight requires the very sign of its suddenness; and of all things, it is the scene which seems to be seen best for the first time: a curtain parts and what had not yet ever been seen is devoured by the eyes: the scene consecrates the object I am going to love. The context is the constellation of elements, harmoniously arranged that encompass the experience of the amorous subject...

Love at first sight is always spoken in the past tense. The scene is perfectly adapted to this temporal phenomenon: distinct, abrupt, framed, it is already a memory (the nature of a photograph is not to represent but to memorialize)... this scene has all the magnificence of an accident: I cannot get over having had this good fortune: to meet what matches my desire.

The gesture of the amorous embrace seems to fulfill, for a time, the subject's dream of total union with the loved being: The longing for consummation with the other... In this moment, everything is suspended: time, law, prohibition: nothing is exhausted, nothing is wanted: all desires are abolished, for they seem definitively fulfilled... A moment of affirmation; for a certain time, though a finite one, a deranged interval, something has been successful: I have been fulfilled (all my desires abolished by the plenitude of their satisfaction).”
― Roland Barthes, A Lover's Discourse: Fragments

“A fleeting moment can become an eternity. From a past encounter everything may disappear in the dungeon of forgetfulness. A few furtive flashes or innocent twinkles can survive, though. Some immaterial details may remain marked in our memory, forever. A significant look, a salient colour or a unforeseen gesture may abide, indelibly engraved in our mind. ( "Girl in blue" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

“I wait
with silent passion
for one gesture
one glance
from you”
― Rumi, The Love Poems of Rumi

“Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.”
― François Rabelais

“Neither my deeds contain any essence
nor, my gestures have sense of zeal,
my days are creeping forth for nothingness;
with this body deficient of heart and soul
O' Glorious! O' Lord Almighty !
how can I come close to you?”
― Suman Pokhrel, मलाई जिन्दगी नै दुख्दछ [Malai Zindagi Nai Dukhdachha]

“Every gesture was one of disorder and violence, as if a lioness had come into the room.”
― Anaïs Nin, Little Birds

“A gesture cannot be regarded as the expression of an individual, as his creation (because no individual is capable of creating a fully original gesture, belonging to nobody else), nor can it even be regarded as that person's instrument; on the contrary, it is gestures that use us as their instruments, as their bearers and incarnations”
― Milan Kundera, Immortality

“An introvert talks more than an extrovert because when the mouth is closed, the mind is opened.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“We keep telling lies to ourselves about our gestures, behavior and overall mannerism since we never take the pain to analyze our true self.”
― Dr Prem Jagyasi

“When you're having what you feel like is a "bad day" and then someone comes along out of nowhere and extends to you the simplest of kind gestures, you feel it so deeply within your heart.”
― Miya Yamanouchi , Embrace Your Sexual Self: A Practical Guide for Women

“You never know, until it happens, what you will owe the dead.”
― Zadie Smith, The Autograph Man

“I flipped him a gesture that he wouldn't need sign language to understand.”
― Rick Riordan, The Sword of Summer

“FREE networking tip #13: Instead of offering your hand when meeting someone, extend a rubber duck that squeaks. It's just a small gesture that says, "I'm here, you're here, and I really care.”
― Jarod Kintz, BearPaw Duck And Meme Farm presents: Two Ducks Brawling Is A Pre-Pillow Fight

“His voice gave out and he made several wavy motions with his hand, indicative of the shape of a woman who would probably be unable to keep her balance.”
― Terry Pratchett, Eric

“Between an action and reaction, between a gesture and its consequences, everybody agrees that there is an exact relationship, but not necessarily a proportionate one.”
― Filippo Bologna, The Parrots

“Kiss is another physical gesture if it doesn't touch your soul.”
― Pushpa Rana, Just the Way I Feel

“Она рассеянно посмотрела на меня и потёрла нос, будто он чесался; жест этот, как я впоследствии понял, часто его наблюдая, означал, что собеседник проявляет излишнее любопытство. Как и многих людей, охотно и откровенно о себе рассказывающих, всякий прямой вопрос сразу её настораживал.”
― Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories

“I was supposed to be making some soup," said Rincewind. He waved the onions vaguely. It was probably not the most heroic or purposeful gesture ever made.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Light Fantastic

“-flashed Langdon the thumbs-up
sign. Langdon smiled weakly and returned the gesture, wondering if she knew it was the ancient phallic
symbol for masculine virility.”
― Dan Brown, Angels & Demons

“I have come to realize that my stupid gestures excites women alot, and if I'm really stupid, i will dare to take them to bed and excite them even more.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“In a gesture of socialist support, the Dear Leader placed his hand upon her.”
― Adam Johnson, The Orphan Master's Son

“Forgive me for not loving how you deserve.
With weak knees that in their grand gesture can only collapse instead of bow.”
― Taylor Patton

“Empty roads have many stories,
Stories could be the right #gesture
to the destination of realization.”
― Abhinav Rajput

“The camera was a hand-held auxiliary of wanting-to-know. It had more than information and accuracy to teach me. I learned in the doing how ready I had to be. Life doesn't hold still. A good snapshot stopped a moment from running away. Photography taught me that to be able to capture transience, by being ready to click the shutter at the crucial moment, was the greatest need I had. Making pictures of people in all sorts of situations, I learned that every feeling waits upon its gesture, and I had to be prepared to recognize this moment when I saw it. These were things a writer needed to know. And I felt the need to hold transient life in words - there's so much more of life that only words can convey - strongly enough to last me as long as I lived. The direction my mind took was a writer's direction from the start, not a photographer's or a recorder's.”
― Eudora Welty, On Writing

“Hygge is part of the language of human action and interaction all over the world. To hygge is a universal impetus revealed in the small rituals, gestures and daily experiences that unite and define us all.”
― Louisa Thomsen Brits, The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Living Well

“An empty gesture is still a gesture.”
― A.D. Aliwat, In Limbo

“If you do something nice, do it quietly.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, Listen to Your Conscience: That's Why You Have One

“Mr. Gaul took off his spectacles, a gesture of his which always accompanied the reception of anything startling. But he only twisted them in his hands and replaced them carefully. Had the event been more personally arresting he would have cleaned them with his coat-sleeve. Confronted by a shipwreck he might even have rubbed them against his trousers.”
― John Cowper Powys, Weymouth Sands

“You need to go out of your way to make this happen, but it only need be a small gesture. A brief one-on-one moment where you acknowledge this person is relevant. More than a fly-by “bye” on your last day. Less than a tearful hug in the hallway.”
― Michael Lopp, Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager