Quotes About Mannerism

In England we are sort of very awkward.

I'm just a bit awkward, but people think I'm rude.

It's always the case, whenever you're doing someone real, how much you want to do an impression or a characterisation. If I was doing Churchill, or Gandhi - people know exactly how they talked, walked.

Why do people always gesture with their hands when they talk on the phone?

She went out slowly. The way she did it hadn't been learned at business college.

One can understand a person by the way he removes his wallet and puts his hand to take out money.

I hate when people have food in their mouths and they don't swallow before they talk. Like, they store it in their cheek when they talk to you. It drives me nuts.

You could be the smartest person on earth, but nobody will care if you can't carry yourself the right way.

Yeah, he's just a huge flirt. He flirted with me, every female reporter within eyeshot, some of the men, and a pot plant on the way into his office. It's pathological.

I had a very 'colorful' language, and every time I went to say something, Michael would cut me off with words like 'shoot' and 'fudge.' He didn't like curses. He didn't think it was necessary when other words would do.

There are times when I consciously give the character something physical - a walk, the way he sits, how he talks, or his lack of physicality, which is like a physicality.

She quickly took a drink to hide her mouth. That mannerism had never changed: whenever Sarah was embarrassed, after she'd told a joke and was waiting for the laughter, or when she was afraid she'd talked too much, she would go for her mouth as if to cover nakedness - with Cokes or popsicles as a child, with drinks or cigarettes now. Maybe all the years of splayed, protruding teeth, and then of braces, had made her mouth the most vulnerable part of her for life.

he politely didn't lock her in a basement and

Do not laugh loudly and obnoxiously.

I've got this weird thing where I screw my face up. I don't know what it is, but I do it a lot.

When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.

Les jumeaux nous apprirent les attitudes des grandes personnes en train de fumer: la tête devait être un peu en biais, l'oeil droit à moitié fermé, la cigarette entre l'index et le majeur, le bout du filtre à peine calé enre les lèvres. Il fallait prendre son temps entre deux bouffées, faire semblant de discuter à grands gestes avec les autres.

My mum will not speak above a low whisper in public because she doesn't want to draw attention to herself.

Lyall had spent centuries nibbling about the great layered cake that was polite society while Lord Akeldama acted the part of the frosting on its top.

The correction of the "I mean," the "As a matter of fact" habit, takes cooperation. If you realize that you have picked up a verbal mannerism, call on the friend to whom you talk most fluently and emotionally. It is fairly easy to control such a mannerism in the presence of someone we hardly know, but in the heat of discourse the offending phrase will crop up in every other sentence.

Well, what ever he calls it," said Marlon's granny, "he looks like an idiot with that stupid great thing stuck in his mouth all the time.

En arte, el manierismo concede tanta importancia o más a la manera cómo está hecha la obra que a la esencia de lo que se expresa. También aquí, la acepción del término "forma" como "manera" o "modo" -y por extensión, incluso "moda"1- designa cosas exteriores.

Algernon Stitch was standing in the hall; his bowler hat was on his head; his right hand, grasping a crimson, royally emblazoned dispatch case, emerged from the left sleeve of his overcoat; his other hand burrowed petulantly in his breast pocket. An umbrella under his left arm further inconvenienced him. He spoke indistinctly, for he was holding a folded copy of the morning paper between his teeth. "Can't get it on," he seemed to say.

They were all tall and slender with heads groomed like manikins' heads, and as they talked the heads waved gracefully above their dark tailored suits, rather like long-stemmed flowers and rather like cobras' hoods.