Quotes About Mannerisms

It's funny, I feel like dogs take after their owners and certain mannerisms and the energy that they have.

He spoke a refined and formal kind of English that did not seem wholly natural, as though at some point it had been applied to him carefully with a brush, like paint. I asked him what his nationality was. 'I was sent to an English boarding school at the age of seven,' he replied. 'You might say I have the mannerisms of an Englishman but the heart of a Greek. I am told,' he added, 'it would be much worse the other way around.

Adopting mannerisms is called mimicry. That is not a good way to do things. You don't start to imitate somebody, the way he walks and talks, that is a very irrelevant element of acting.

Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.

Men don't understand how their mannerisms can get on women's nerves so that you feel you just have to snap. I thought I'd just mention that to Mr. Poirot some time.

I'm not really a political satirist. I don't kid myself. I'm more interested in doing the mannerisms and the personality.

It's really surreal watching myself on television because I pick up on all my mannerisms. You really get to see yourself in a completely different light when you actually watch yourself.

Moon was from somewhere up east, the kind of place where consonants took on a life of their own. In addition to this, she spoke loudly and abruptly, two things that were considered very rude to southern ears.

A man shows his character just in the way in which he deals with trifles, for then he is off his guard.

The allegation that English girls had no conversation must be true; but theirs was a SPEAKING silence. Their eyes and smiles were eloquent! She hoped it would teach their own girls that they need not chatter like magpies.

I watch a lot of Kevin Nash's matches. I use a lot of his stuff. I definitely use a lot of his mannerisms.

I spent three days with Don King, and I interviewed 45 people. I studied his speech, his mannerisms. He invited me to a couple of fights, and I watched him.

each of us special and individual? And if we just suppose that there is. Then don't you think, in order to truly learn Josie, you'd have to learn not just her mannerisms but what's deeply inside her? Wouldn't you have to learn her heart?

This is one of the great charms of Poirot's investigations, for they reveal a world where manners and morals are quite different from today. There are no overt and unnecessary sex scenes, no alcoholic, haunted detectives in Poirot's world. He lives in a simpler, some would say more human, era: a lost England, seen through the admiring eyes of this foreigner, this little Belgian detective.

We become the way we speak.

My mom and I have the exact same mannerisms - the way we talk and the gestures that we made.

Learning Indian mannerisms, how to wear saris, and the language were a challenge.

fifty-six, his hour had come round. He was a paradox and would always remain one, a great tangle of calculated mannerisms and raw, uncalculated emotion. Well-read, fluent in French, and the wealthy child of privilege, he could be crude, rude, and plain foolish. He had reduced his extensive study of history and military art to a five-word manifesto of war: "violent attacks everywhere with everything.

Forms and mannerisms...hated by the best, loved by the worst. Year after year, decade after decade of little front-row readers, mimics with pretty smiles and neat pens, out to get their Aristotelian A's while those who possess the real areté sit silently in back of them wondering what is wrong with themselves that they cannot like this subject.

Avoid mannerisms in attributions. People say things; they don't wheeze, gasp, sigh, laugh, grunt, snort, reply, retort, exclaim, or declare them.

You know what, Reynart,' Geralt suddenly said. 'I also prefer you as you are now. Talking normally. Back in October you were using infuriating, moronic mannerisms.' ''Pon my word, Witcher, I'm a knight errant,' chortled Reynart de Bois-Fresnes. 'Have you forgotten? Knights always talk like morons.

Like other inveterate womanizers Strike had encountered, Duffield's voice and mannerisms were slightly camp. Perhaps such men became feminized by prolonged immersion in women's company, or perhaps it was a way of disarming their quarry.

Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.