Best Body Language Quotes

#1. Reality prior to my language exists as an unthinkable thought ... life precedes love, bodily matter precedes the body, and one day in its turn language shall have preceded possession of silence.

Clarice Lispector

#2. 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

#3. I kind of do this awkward body language because, growing up, I had a really hard time expressing myself vocally.

Analeigh Tipton

#4. Wetiko is elusive and mercurial, for whatever we say wetiko is, it isn't, in that it is always more, less, and other than what we are able to say it is in language.

Paul Levy

#5. Life is not all high emotion. Some of the most interesting things are when its not highly emotional: little details of relationships and body language.

David Attenborough

#6. If, as I suspect, my body survives by uttering itself over and over again, then I have some questions. If [I] am one word, so are my daughters, so are all of us in strings and loops. Each life is one short word slowly uttered.

Louise Erdrich

#7. Shoes transform your body language and attitude. They lift you physically and emotionally.

Christian Louboutin

#8. But no one ever said yes to make sex consensual. You took hints from body language, from the way two people came together. Why ... didn't a shake of the head or a hand pushing hard against a chest speak just as loudly? Why did you have to actually say the word no for it to be rape?

Jodi Picoult

#9. There is a language older by far and deeper than words. It is the language of bodies, of body on body, wind on snow, rain on trees, wave on stone. It is the language of dream, gesture, symbol, memory. We have forgotten this language. We do not even remember that it exists ...

Derrick Jensen

#10. 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.

Helen Fisher

#11. There's always so much more that can be conveyed on screen visually in the expressions of people's faces, in their bodies, in their body language. And also with sound design, with music.

Lynn Shelton

#12. It was evident from both Hux's tone and body language that he held no love for the newcomer. The feeling was mutual; neither took pains to hide his contempt.

Alan Dean Foster

#13. And I have to work so hard at talking positively to myself. If I don't, it's just real hard to get through the day, and I'll get really down, and just want to cry. My whole body language changes. I get more slumped over.

Delta Burke

#14. Where body language conflicts with the words that are being said, the body language will usually be the more 'truthful' in the sense of revealing true feelings.

Glen Wilson

#15. By voluntarily adopting a dominated body posture you display the fact that you have accepted to be inferior.

J.F. Bouchard

#16. Eyes speak the best of the body language.

Pushpa Rana

#17. I love you, Terese. I always will." Something changed. I could see it in her body language. A stiffening of the spine maybe. The best friend was slipping away. An adversary was coming to the surface.

Harlan Coben

#18. The best conversationalists don't just engage on the literal, surface level of conversation. They listen instead to tonality, pay attention to eye contact, note shifts in body language.

Charlie Houpert

#19. There's something about studying body language and non-spoken emotion - I know the innate response. But to really study it like a science would be fun.

Shia Labeouf

#20. There is nuance now, subtext, body language, and pheromones.

Andre Agassi

#21. The erotic element always present in fashion, the kiss of loving labor on the body, is now overtly expressed by language. Belts hug or clasp; necklines plunge; jerseys bind. The word exciting tingles everywhere.

Mary McCarthy

#22. The earliest language was body language and, since this language is the language of questions, if we limit the questions, and if we only pay attention to or place values on spoken or written language, then we are ruling out a large area of human language.

Paulo Freire

#23. The language of my love does not belong to human language, my human body does not touch the flesh of my love.

Paul Eluard

#24. Body language generally fails to have its intended effect on the phone.

Haruki Murakami

#25. True deduction can only be obtained through a certain amount of self annihilation.

Joe Riggs

#26. Do not listen to what any society tells you about the body - the body is the metaphor for all experience. A woman's body more than any other. Like language, its beautiful but weaker sister. Look at this poem. This painting. Look at these photographs. The body doesn't lie.

Lidia Yuknavitch

#27. Confidence is not posting endless selfies, or repeatedly protesting how happy or in love we are, it's a subtle yet noticeable sheen that emanates from our being - our eyes, our words, our body language.

Sam Owen

#28. I had never really done voice-over. If you've ever seen me, I'm more the communicator through body language and movement ... I'm a physical actor.

Daniel Logan

#29. Would you look at that body language? Legs crossed towards each other. That is an unequivocal sex invite.

Cher

#30. You always try to play it off cool, but even if I think I have a certain laidback body language when I'm meeting someone who I greatly admire, I still have this horrible tendency to go bright red.

Rose Leslie

#31. The right hemisphere controls sensory attention and body image; the left hemisphere controls skilled movements and some aspects of language.

Michio Kaku

#32. Females carry the marks, language and nuances of their culture more than the male. Anything that is desired or despised is always placed on the female body.

Wangechi Mutu

#33. In writing, punctuation plays the role of body language. It helps readers hear you the way you want to be heard.

Russell Baker

#34. Language is called the garment of thought: however, it should rather be, language is the flesh-garment, the body, of thought.

Thomas Carlyle

#35. The acute attention that ravens pay to our subtle signals underscores the degree to which they can draw conclusions from our body language. They perceive our intentions even though we may not be consciously aware of them.

John M. Marzluff

#36. In this respect I suppose I'm the total opposite of Garry. With his very emotive body language at the board he shows and displays all his emotions. I don't.

Vladimir Kramnik