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Quotes About Body language

Body parts telegraphed complaints from faraway places.
~ Max Barry
Research shows that making eye contact is a powerful draw for guys - even in photos. Just don't mistake duck face for flirty.
~ Matthew Hussey
Slouching or leaning back may send the wrong signals. When you sit down for a formal interview, lean forward to show interest and active listening.
~ Kathryn Minshew
Sexual signals can be received without being consciously sent.
~ Jacob Weisberg
In silence and movement you can show the reflection of people.
~ Marcel Marceau
He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.
~ Sigmund Freud
He blinked at me lazily and I blinked back at half speed, an exchange I later learned was called a cat kiss.
~ Sue Grafton
When searching for a victim that is out of sight, such as under rubble, water, or in darkness, the handler wants an indication from the dog that is unmistakable, or "bombproof." However, occasionally you'll be on a search where even the best trained dog will do the bombproof alert. This is where close observation of your dog's body language can help you solve the problem. – Marcia Koenig
~ Susan Bulanda
Our mind is capable of detecting even the smallest hand and finger movements, and if gestures and motions are employed successfully during an utterance or discussion, they can enhance the transmission of information."
~ Josh King Madrid
Probably one of the often overlooked framing components is body language. The way a question is framed might depend on a variety of factors, including posture, mood, facial gestures, and grin."
~ Josh King Madrid
Guy was saying, "What the hell is it about you that attracts murder and mayhem?" "Something in my body language?" He groaned. "That was bad—even for you.
~ Josh Lanyon
Dancing gives an innate physical awareness - it's physical training. Acting feels like the same medium but just with words.
~ Elizabeth Debicki
There comes a moment during a job interview when you're still talking, but you might as well take off your shoes.
~ Bill James
He have a modified shrug that tilted one shoulder forward,
~ Faith Hunter
You're aware," Myron said, "that kidnap victims often identify with their abductors." "I know all that. The Stockholm syndrome and all its bizarre offshoots. But it just didn't seem that way. Katie didn't look particularly exhausted. The body language was right. There wasn't panic in her eyes or any kind of cult-like zealousness. Her eyes were clear, in fact. I didn't see signs of drugs there, though granted I only got a brief look.
~ Harlan Coben
Actors always start with the voice and language. That's wrong. They should start with the body. The body is an actor's most important resource.
~ Robert Wilson
Language is important, I know, for the TV show, so a lot of people watches 'WWE' everywhere. Asia, Africa... some people don't understand English like me. That's why I use facial expressions and body motions.
~ Shinsuke Nakamura
I am an emotional and fragile person. I observe life, I am perceptive and can read a person's body language. I have a strong journalistic streak in me, and had I not been a filmmaker, I would have become a film journalist. I have combined my perceptive and journalistic traits to create my own brand of cinema.
~ Madhur Bhandarkar
Do you mind if I sit back a little? Because your breath is bad—it really is. —DONALD TRUMP, TO LARRY KING, ON CNN'S "LARRY KING
~ Stanley Bing
He's making an attempt to look at his ease, but some men just don't know how to stand around with their hands in their pockets and look natural.
~ Michael Chabon
In a costume, you need very exaggerated body language - as you say, sort of mime-type skills.
~ Warwick Davis
We used to have massively long discussions about how we should stand on stage. Should we stand with our legs apart? No, all the guys with guitars in skinny jeans stand with their legs apart, and you'd think, 'We can't stand like that.' We'd spend hours and hours, days and days, discussing how to stand.
~ Viv Albertine
She tried to make up for speaking so disagreeably by stroking him, but Clawed merely turned his head long enough to give her a look that said, You are not my friend.
~ Beverly Cleary
Speakers from the Mediterranean region, for instance, like to put their faces very close, relatively speaking, to those they are addressing. A common scene when people from southern Europe and northern Europe are conversing, as at a cocktail party, is for the latter to spend the entire conversation stealthily retreating, to try to gain some space, and for the former to keep advancing to close the gap. Neither speaker may even be aware of it.
~ Bill Bryson