Gertrude Stein Quotes

The body is a universal language. Because if you spoke French, and I speak English, but I move like this or do certain movements, I can still make you smile and laugh.

When I speak in English, my expressions become different. My attitude, too. I'm not sure why, but there really is a difference. My hands move differently when I speak English.

[T]he young and the old of widely different races, both with man and animals, express the same state of mind by the same movements.

Few animals display their mood via facial expressions as distinctly as cats.

Animals can communicate quite well. And they do. And generally speaking, they are ignored

If everything is perfect, language is useless. This is true for animals. If animals don't speak, it's because everything's perfect for them. If one day they start to speak, it will be because the world has lost a certain sort of perfection.

When articulation is impossible, gesticulation comes to the rescue.

People like to say that East Asians in general, and Japanese in particular, are not very expressive: there's that term 'inscrutable.' But often, Europeans just don't get the Asian codes. Believe me, the message is being expressed OK.

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

Don't write anything you can phone. Don't phone anything you can talk. Don't talk anything you can whisper. Don't whisper anything you can smile. Don't smile anything you can nod. Don't nod anything you can wink.

I remember that. I was talking to him and I said how great it would be if actors had a tail because I have animals and a tail is so expressive. On a cat you can tell everything. You can tell if they're annoyed. You can tell whether they're scared.

Our people could not talk with these white-faced men, but they used signs which all people understand.

I still do find it very difficult in the West to connect to this politeness of smiling, not saying how you're thinking or not saying how you really feel.

You can tell a lot from someone's eyes.

I think there's a great deal of information you can convey with looks or silence.

I think you can actually express a lot more in ways without words.

Body language is more fascinating to me than actual language.

There's this little recipe that you have to hit pretty well to get somebody to laugh. And it's a combination of the way in which you say something, with the facial expression that you have, married with the body language that you have, etc.

An American may speak love with his lips; the Italian must say it with his eyes.

I experienced many moments when we were able to overcome language barriers. When they like something during our shows, American audiences would tend to show our fox signs or move their bodies.

Dancing doesn't have a language.

In Spain, they're never direct, and that frustrates me.

Often your utterances and expressions of your face leak out the secrets of your hidden thoughts.

I performed wound care or minor surgery, I would always apologize for any pain I was causing the animal and they would lick my hand and not bite me out of anger due to the pain. They are also far more forgiving than people are of human beings and other animals.

if we don't always understand animals, they always understand us.