Patrick Rothfuss Quotes

Air and manners are more expressive than words.

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

I see tendencies, I see body language.

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.

I love body language.

There's something about studying body language and non-spoken emotion - I know the innate response. But to really study it like a science would be fun.

You can tell a lot from someone's eyes.

The best way to show an emotion is not through a character's words, but their smallest expressions - to take what an actor would visually do and try putting that down on the page for the reader to 'see.'

I'm fascinated by the ways in which people express themselves, because their responses are often counter to what they're actually feeling. Like when they're frightened, they tend to freeze. When they're angry, it doesn't always come out as volume. There are wonderful contradictions in the way that people express their emotions.

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.

The person you're playing must have feelings, but if he's not able to show them, then just the subtlest rumblings and nuances can say an incredible amount.

Make it your profitable habit to carefully study facial expressions. You can see the entire human drama in a face; you can tell its owner's history.

It's a good challenge as an actor to express feelings without saying too many words.

I was really interested in observing people. From a young age, I wouldn't listen to what an adult was saying - I was obsessed with other people's body language.

You can tell a lot about a person just by watching their facial expressions. But there are times when it's best to hide your feelings, especially at work.

Many people with autism struggle with reading nonverbal cues and acting on them. When you lose that ability to understand and process nonverbal cues, you're at a huge disadvantage socially.

I love communicating non-verbally. I find great value in it.

People call me the human emoji because I think people recognize that if I'm ever thinking something or feeling a certain emotion, it goes straight to my face. So if I'm happy, you'll know I'm happy, and if I'm mad, you'll know I'm mad just by looking at me.

The art of reading physical tells isn't an exact science.

No matter what you say in carefully chosen sentences, girls will detect both the spoken and unspoken messages.

My body language, it doesn't have anything to do with my coaches or my teammates.

You know the thing about a picture being worth a thousand words? A look can be worth a million.