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Quotes About Body language

Confucius say, Gideon ad-libbed, man with hand in pocket feel cocky all day.
~ Sylvia Day
She was giving him a look. It took Eustace a second to figure out what it was. Her off-kilter gaze traveled the length of his body, then lingered pointedly. The gesture was supposed to be seductive but was more like livestock trying to sell itself.
~ Justin Cronin
I watched a lot of Jerry Rice's film just to learn how to run routes, but it was so difficult to imitate him, and he didn't play with the same body language that I wanted to play with.
~ Doug Baldwin
A girl can tell I like her when I blush or start telling bad jokes.
~ Zac Efron
Our bodies are apt to be our autobiographies.
~ Frank Gillette Burgess
it's hard to fool an ape. One reason for that is the absence of distraction by the spoken word. We attach such importance to verbal communication that we lose track of what our bodies say about us.
~ Frans de Waal
We attach such importance to verbal communication that we lose track of what our bodies say about us.
~ Frans de Waal
Typically, the young male spreads his legs to show his erection—a sexual invitation—making sure that his back is turned to the other males or that, with his underarm leaning on his knee, one of his hands loosely dangles right next to his penis so that only the wooed female can see
~ Frans de Waal
They did the whole lingering gaze thing, following it with the glancing-away, smiling-knowingly routine. She felt vivacious, a feeling she remembered, she was enjoying the self-confidence, the larkiness.
~ Freya North
He nodded." "He kind-of-halfway-sort-of-nodded-but-it-might-have-been-a-random-twitch.
~ Brandon Sanderson
When we engage in what she terms a "high-power pose" where our bodies are more open and expansive—arms open as opposed to closed across our chest, standing straight with shoulders back as opposed to hunched with shoulders folded forward, occupying more space versus less—our brain and body respond by increasing testosterone and decreasing cortisol. Testosterone levels go up by 20 to 25 percent, and cortisol goes down by 20 to 25 percent.
~ Hendrie Weisinger
When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.
~ Victor Hugo
I was really interested in observing people. From a young age, I wouldn't listen to what an adult was saying - I was obsessed with other people's body language.
~ Alex Sharp
A lot of my comedy is physical, so you don't have to understand English to get that I'm choking to death on cinnamon or falling out of this tree or whatever.
~ GloZell
Sealing your lips makes your eyes talk Truth creeps beneath your lame feet's walk Knees stiffen when blood vessels stalk A pounding heart's lies hard as rock
~ Munia Khan
In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.
~ Stephen R. Covey
If evil lingers around you, it will rub off on you, it will cause stress, anxiety and a lot of mental anguish! 'Eyes' - you can see evil in the eye of the beholder! Body! Talk! Stance! Walk! Posture! Evil oozes out!
~ Stephen Richards
Some people say you should watch a man's feet to see if he's ready to swing a punch, I say watch his fucking eyes!
~ Stephen Richards
A partner who rolls her eyes, sighs, turns away, sends a very toxic message.
~ Steve Biddulph
When we're anxious we tend to shrink into a defeatist position, curving our shoulders or backs. Learning to stand straight, take a breath and speak slowly helps to project a sense of confidence, relieving some of that anxiety.
~ Gina Miller
I come from a place where everything about me, even my body language, is saying: I mean you no harm. I smile, I laugh. Basic stuff for most people.
~ Oscar Isaac
Winks just don't come off as smooth for me as they seem to for everyone else.
~ Y'lan Noel
Every movement reveals us.
~ Michel de Montaigne
De todos modos, nosotros no vemos nada, no vemos más que miradas, no un lugar sino un gesto, y siempre el gesto de las manos, las manos cerradas, las manos que se abren, las manos abiertas del todo.
~ Michel Foucault