Kim Harrison Quotes

Well, usually when a person shakes their head," said McGonagall coldly, "they mean 'no.' So unless Miss Edgecombe is using a form of sign language as yet unknown to humans.

You don't always talk with your mouth. Sometimes what you say with your mouth hardly matters at all. You have to signify

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

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

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

We routinely participate in elaborate nonverbal exchanges even when we are not consciously aware of doing so.

The joy of the roasts is to watch people get hurt and offended, and then have to laugh to pretend they're a good sport.

I like to use my hands. When I was in theatre in college, that was one of my biggest notes: 'You use your hands too much.'

Posturing is funny to me.

The raising of an eyebrow, how you do it; when you look, how you look. All those little things are physical.

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

His eyes widened just a bit, his lips flexed. I realized he was trying not to laugh. I hate it when people find my threats amusing.

There's looks as speaks as strong as words.

Nor do they trust their tongue alone, but speak a language of their own; can read a nod, a shrug, a look, far better than a printed book; convey a libel in a frown, and wink a reputation down.

We speak with more than our mouths. We listen with more than our ears.

When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practiced man relies on the language of the first.

I am spoken to not in words, which come to me quaint and veiled, but in signs, in conformations of face and hands, in postures of shoulders and feet, in nuances of tune and tone, in gaps and absences whose grammar has never been recorded.

Nonverbal communication is an elaborate secret code that is written nowhere, known by none, and understood by all.

How does Love speak? In the faint flush upon the telltale cheek, And in the pallor that succeeds it; by The quivering lid of an averted eye-- The smile that proves the parent to a sigh Thus doth Love speak.

There is a form of communication that transcends the power of words.

Body language is more powerful than words.

He gave a small nod, and I smiled back, and that was it. He understood that I'd understood that he'd understood. It took us one sentence, two looks, and a nod - with another woman it would have been at least five minutes of out-loud talking. Lucky for me I spoke fluent guy.

When articulation is impossible, gesticulation comes to the rescue.

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

I see tendencies, I see body language.