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Quotes About Body language

If a man doesn't kiss you, he doesn't want to kiss you. If a man doesn't kiss you on the mouth, he doesn't find you attractive. A fist bump is not a kiss. An ass pat is not a kiss. Don't trust a man who keeps your kisses a secret.
~ Helen Ellis
Human beings are full of emotion, and the teacher who knows how to use it will have dedicated learners. It means sending dominant signals instead of submissive ones with your eyes, body and voice.
~ Leon Lessinger
You have to deduce a person's real feelings about a thing by a smile she does not know is on her face, by the way bitterness tightens muscles at a mouth's corner, or the way air is allowed to flow from the lungs.
~ lessing doris vi
Snot locker was the funniest name I'd ever heard for a nose.
~ Jeannette Walls
I can see the character in a photograph, in the way a guy stands or holds his hands, the way he buckles his belt. I fantasize a lot looking at photographs. I'm sure that doesn't work for many people.
~ Richard Gere
All the hands, hearts and minds of the individuals collectively contribute to the team's success. (listen to your team, watch their body language, share your expectations . . . work together.)
~ Suzanne Yoculan
Through conducting, you express through your arms, through your face and even the body, what you want to tell, so the musicians of the orchestra understand.
~ Andris Nelsons
What is with you and faces?" Qibli said. "You should try threatening someone's elbows or ankles once in a while, just for a change of pace.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
He winked, and Clay managed to look embarrassed, alarmed, and confused all at the same time.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
I've learned to listen not to what peolpe have to say 4but how they say it. I watch them closly how they speak, in particular their eyes.Lips lie, but the eyes never do.
~ Patrick Jones
posture appropriate for a formal interview is not the posture assumed when talking with a friend. Posture seems well under control and successfully managed when someone is deceiving. I and others studying
~ Paul Ekman
Every woman knows the art of saying no with the lips and yes with the rest
~ Marcello Mastroianni
If, when you talk to people, they keep backing away from you, it's because you're TOO CLOSE, alright? SO DON'T KEEP ADVANCING ON THEM LIKE A HUMAN GLACIER.
~ Dave Barry
When you lie a rush of adrenaline to the capillaries in the nose causes it to itch. So people who are lying tend to involuntarily scratch it.
~ David Baldacci
People can lie with words, but their faces, and in particular their eyes, give them away. They
~ David Baldacci
When you lie a rush of adrenaline to the capillaries in the nose causes it to itch. So people who are lying tend to involuntarily scratch it. - John Puller
~ David Baldacci
You were walking stiffly when you came in. Bone ache is a classic symptom." He pointed to her forehead. "And it's cold outside but your head is sweating. Another classic. And you've crossed and uncrossed your legs five times in the brief time you've been sitting there. Bladder problems. Another symptom.
~ David Baldacci
No, you simply sit there with your arms crossed nodding with that timeless patience that communicates condescension and judgment without exposing you to responsibility for insinuating anything aloud.
~ David Foster Wallace
Fie, fie upon her! There's language in her eye, her cheek, her lip, Nay, her foot speaks; her wanton spirits look out at every joint and motive of her body.
~ William Shakespeare
You don't speak unless you are spoken to and your body speaks to the space you fill and you keep trying to fill it except the space belongs to the body of the man next to you, not to you.
~ Claudia Rankine
Words work as release—well-oiled doors opening and closing between intention, gesture. A pulse in a neck, the shiftiness of the hands, an unconscious blink, the conversations you have with your eyes translate everything and nothing. What will be needed, what goes unfelt, unsaid—what has been duplicated, redacted here, redacted there, altered to hide or disguise—words encoding the bodies they cover. And despite everything the body remains.
~ Claudia Rankine
We find in silence and body language the shadow of truth.
~ Clifford Thurlow
Experience teaches you that the man who looks you straight in the eye, particularly if he adds a firm handshake, is hiding something.
~ Clifton Fadiman
Jones looks like he wants to slug me, which is only subtly different from his usual way of looking at me like I'm a slug.
~ Holly Black