Quotes About Body language

Women are better at reading body language everywhere in the world. As a matter of fact, it's associated with the female hormone estrogen. Women are better at figuring out of tone of voice, reading your face and posture and gesture.

One of the most telling things about a person is how they say hello, handshakes.

There's as much revealed in the way a person lifts a glass as in what they say about some political issue.

I daydream just like everybody else. I just do it with my body facing the field, so everybody thinks I'm paying attention.

I glanced at Carson, who had promised things would be alright. His gaze was on the floor, and a muscle in his jaw flexed rhythmically but unhelpfully. If he was trying to send me a message, I was out of luck, because I'd never learned Morse Code for Assholes.

Italians had a "national peculiarity" to use distinctive hand gestures and body language when they spoke: a resource that was, he believed, obvious to an Italian like Leonardo when he came to paint The Last Supper.

The hand gestures of Italians are not, apparently, as clear-cut as Goethe believed. De Jorio discovered that knowing the purpose of someone's mind

through hand gestures was no easy business. A single gesture could have many different significations. Even the mano infica turned out to have three different interpretations: it could mean the subject was warding off evil, or dishing out an insult, or making "a kind of offensive or impertinent invitation.

Mr. Bean is at his best when he is not using words, but I am equally at home in both verbal and nonverbal expression.

I have seen all manner of men and boys melt away when I appear and rest my hand lightly but familiarly on a waist or neck, looking friendly and interested and present and big in my body. It rises up in me unbidden, every time, the knowledge that keeping this femme safe when I am not present may have something to do with the public perception of who might be in the wings to protect her.

there's often more in silences than in what is actually said – in the lips pressed together, the head turned away, the quick sideways glance. The shoulders drawn up as if carrying a heavy weight.

Then why is your mouth all pursed up in that ridiculous way?

People seldom realize that they tell lies with their lips and truths with their eyes all the time.

Never try to look into both eyes at the same time. Switch your gaze from one eye to the other. That signals warmth and sincerity.

Your voice is sad and your hands are slow, And your eye meeting mine turns away.

So just look mean and don't make eye contact with anyone. (Syn) Gee, hon, you take me to the most wonderful places. (Shahara)

Don't talk to your horse, dear. People are watching," Pauline said quietly. Halt turned a perplexed look toward her. "How do you know when I'm doing that?" She smiled at him. "Your nose twitches." … On the way, Kane [stableboy] kept glancing surreptitiously at the famous Ranger, fascinated by the fact that he kept staring down his nose and tweaking its tip between his forefinger and thumb.

I realized my hands were in my pockets. He couldn't hold one even if he wanted to. Not unless he actively dug it out, which would be weird. He probably thought I was sending him a specific message not to hold my hand. I took my hands out of my pockets. The problem is I like having my hands in my pockets. It's my natural position. They felt unwieldy hanging by my sides, as if I was walking like a Neanderthal. Why was I so bad at this?

She folded her arms across her chest and leaned back in her chair, aware of how defensive her body language was and not caring at all.

The language of power was exercised in more than just words. It was presence and thought; it was gesture and timing.

She noticed real tension in Paul's jaw, his mandibles pulled back like

I prefer to express myself physically, or non-verbally. I prefer just to react without having a lot of dialogue.

The character in 'Arya' was so close to my real life persona. The director saw me once and felt I was the right guy for the role because my body language was so flamboyant. In real life, too, I am very peppy and full of life.

I did realise that when you talk with a straight face, you come across as someone bolder than somebody who bats her eyelids a lot.