Nonverbal Language Quotes

#1. Wise is the man who learns the nonverbal language of his wife, who notes the nod and discerns the gestures. It's not just what is said, but how. It's not just how, but when. It's not just when, but where. Good husbanding is good decoding. You've got to read the signs.

Max Lucado

#2. If you want to know all about the sea ... and ask the sea itself, what does it say? Grumble grumble swish swish. It is too busy being itself to know anything about itself.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#3. Love is like Death without the guarantee of its arrival. Love may not come for you, but when it does it will be just as swift and ruthless as Death and just as blind to your protestations. And just as Death will end one life and leave you with another, so will Love.

Roshani Chokshi

#4. When I go back to NFL functions today, I feel a bit on the outside looking in. I played 13 years in the NFL, and I loved it - made a Pro Bowl and went to the playoffs - but I always felt like I was having to knock the door down to get in.

Doug Flutie

#5. Nonverbal communication forms a social language that is in many ways richer and more fundamental than our words.

Leonard Mlodinow

#6. Art has this long history, predating even language, of expressing nonverbal information.

Betty Edwards

#7. Although not as virile as his father's, Sean's delivery was fuller. He kept firing like a cum cannon, his stepsister was the battlefield.

J.D. Grayson

#8. There cannot be many people who can go through life without regretting sooner or later a lack of knowledge about horses.

Muriel Wace

#9. Our first experience of life is primarily felt in the *body.* ... We know ourselves in the security of those who hold us and gaze upon us. It's not heard or seen or thought it's felt. That's the original knowing.

Richard Rohr

#10. Misery is complexity. Happiness is simplicity.

Lester Levenson

#11. The chimpanzees taught me a lot about nonverbal communication. The big difference between them and us is that they don't have spoken language. Everything else is almost the same: Kissing, embracing, swaggering, shaking the fist.

Jane Goodall

#12. Her occupation was the worst that anyone could think of. No guest in the park had to think of it because, unlike the wandering dwarf women, her job had no bearing on paper.

Pam Jones

#13. Scientists attach great importance to the human capacity for spoken language. But we also have a parallel track of nonverbal communication, which may reveal more than our carefully chosen words, and sometimes be at odds with them.

Leonard Mlodinow

#14. CLAUDIA: I love you as high as the sky and as deep as the sea.
MICHAEL: Multiply my love by infinity and take it to the depths of forever, and you still have only a glimpse of how much I feel for you. I love you more.

Mary Ting

#15. It does not matter what happens when we have gone.

Madame De Pompadour

#16. I worked on 'Sarah Connor' even longer than 'Firefly.' And I always remembered how generous everyone was to me when I didn't know what to do, and I didn't know the rules, and I didn't know camera angles, and I didn't know lighting.

Summer Glau

#17. Use your gifts well and you will discover others, among them a gift that is uniquely you. See these noble gifts in other people. Share the truth and be ready for the miracle to unfold

Charlene Costanzo

#18. Rather than being nonverbal, individuals with NLD generally present with abundant verbal ability, with many showing precocious language development and
high levels of vocabulary and general knowledge.

Maggie Mamen

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

Joe Riggs