Herbert Spencer Quotes

You can express a lot of things, a lot of action without speaking.

There is a world of communication which is not dependent on words.

There's a lot you can do without words.

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

Gestures and facial expressions do indeed communicate, as anyone can prove by turning off the sound on a television set and asking watchers to characterize the speakers from the picture alone.

There are all kinds of symbols. Verbal language is only one. Sometimes by opening our mouths, we make dreadful errors. It's often so much nicer just to look at somebody and vibrate.

When articulation is impossible, gesticulation comes to the rescue.

It is really hard to completely re-learn how to express yourself without using words. When you take away speech, you have to re-invent the way you express yourself. You have to exaggerate your body language and your facial expressions.

I like my hands. They do most of the talking.

I think the main thing was that the character couldn't speak in regular language, so he had to be mimed.

Gestures matter.

I literally can't talk without moving hands.

I don't think people are going to talk in the future. They're going to communicate through eye contact, body language, emojis, signs.

There is a proverb that says, ‘Talk so that I may know who you are.’ But I say, ‘Show me your eyes and I will know who you are.

In such business Action is eloquence, and the eyes of th’ ignorant More learned than the ears.

I'm big on facial expressions, and I'm big on mannerisms, which I find to be hilarious.

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.

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

Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.

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

Directors have a tendency to use their hands like orchestra conductors. They don't realize that the actor is looking at their faces, anyway.

I have very girly hands and I use them a lot when I talk in a way that I think is very feminine.

The thinking is that we started evolving language not by speaking but by gesturing.

I make a lot of expressions constantly. I'm animated.

I love body language.