108 Quotes About Gestures

If you do something nice, do it quietly.

-flashed Langdon the thumbs-upsign. Langdon smiled weakly and returned the gesture, wondering if she knew it was the ancient phallicsymbol for masculine virility.

...I see you as series of gestures, a palette of colors -all these tiny tiles pixelate, and then coalesce... into the idea of you...

you and I are black and white—a film noir, filled with gestures, poignant and tender

Note: The most relevant gestures we miss from our everyday interactions aren't the most grandiose. The subtle little here and there gestures are sometimes of profound depth than the grandiose we expect or see.

Maybe, it is not the thorn on the rose that we should see, but the beauty of the gesture.

It is stated that the Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon him) was taken up into heaven (while he was still alive) and saw angels dwelling on various heavenly levels performing specific movements. This should be a profound sign of the spiritual significance and importance of the body and its motions. It is one indication of the sacredness of the body and the truly profound meaning of certain motions and gestures of that body.

Nothing is more repugnant to the human mind in an age of equality than the idea of subjection to forms.

With hand gestures, you can fill in a lot of gaps, and the words thing and stuff and -ness also help: patientness instead of patience, fastness instead of speed, honestness instead of honesty. With these choices, many words can be indicated, and pointing or gesticulating usually works.