David Nicholls Quotes

As Logan walked towards her, he smiled as if reading her mind and opened his arms.

The most important thing in the face is the eyes, and if you can make the eyes talk, you're halfway there.

A lot of the stuff that I do with Betty is in the eyes. A lot of the feelings that I evoke with her are unspoken, so that's been fun to play with.

The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows.

Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.

I just love human emotion and faces.

When someone is suffering, you have to see this in the body and the face. I say all the time that actors use their bodies like objects of war.

Genuine expressions of emotion rarely persist longer than five seconds and almost never longer than 10. A fixed smile is likely to conceal anger, anxiety, or some other negative emotion.

Speech is one symptom of affection; and silence one; the perfect communication is heard of none.

He put his cold hands on either side of my face and fixed his golden eyes on mine. "Would you please tell me what you're thinking? Before I go mad?

I saw through to the last sign and symbol, but I could not read her face. I could see only the eyes shining through, huge, fleshy-like luminous beasts, as though I were swimming behind them in the electric effluvia of her incandescent vision.

When there are no words, let your eyes do the talking.

The language of the face is not taught by the schools; it is intuitive, and to the observant is always legible.

Also, he was smoking a cigar, and when a man is smoking a cigar, wearing a hat, he has an advantage; it is harder to find out how he feels.

As the language of the face is universal, so 'tis very comprehensive; no laconism can reach it: 'Tis the short hand of the mind, and crowds a great deal in a little room

I kiss her and she finds the light switch and turns it off, and we're just lit in Pepsi-can colors and it's like we've finally found this other kind of conversation, this conversation in gestures and pulls and pushes and breaths and grasps and teases and glimmers and rubs and expectation.

Life is too sweet and too short to express our affection with just our thumbs. Touch is meant for more than a keyboard.

You can almost read any emotion through someone's eyes.

Laughter is regional: a smile extends over the whole face.

One of my favorite actors is Paul Newman. He could tell so much with a single look, whereas some actors would need an entire five page monologue to give off the feeling of what he could say with just a single look.

You can convey a lot of emotion with just some eyebrows and mouth movement.

When you perform, you can convey emotions differently, and your look can reflect each of those emotions.

As a member of the audience I don't like it that I can't see what's going on in the eyes and in the face and in the most subtle responses of a performer when I'm more than a few rows back. I find it very frustrating.

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.

I love body language.