J. D. Salinger Quotes

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

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

The writing is important, but the way you say the line and the pause you give it, the facial expression - all of that is very important.

One of my favorite things to do is not to speak on screen. In theater it's different because there's a lot of emphasis on language - it's a different medium. But that is one of the most wonderful things about film. A person's face can say so much more than their voice can.

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.

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.

An eye can threaten like a loaded and levelled gun, or it can insult like hissing or kicking; or, in its altered mood, by beams of kindness, it can make the heart dance for joy. ... One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol of identity.

Be sure to give the same expression to a person's face that you give to his body.

Make portraits of people in typical, familiar poses, being sure above all to give their faces the same kind of expression as their bodies.

people's emotions are rarely put into words , far more often they are expressed through other cues. the key to intuiting another's feelings is in the ability to read nonverbal channels , tone of voice , gesture , facial expression and the like

In a photograph a person’s eyes tell much, sometimes they tell all.

Zuzana arched an eyebrow. She was a master of the eyebrow arch, and Karou envied her for it. Her own eyebrows did not function independently of each other, which handicapped her expressions of suspicion and disdain.

Don't be negative. It shows on your face.

There are few faces that can afford to smile: a smile is sometimes bewitching, in general vapid, often a contortion.

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

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

Sexuality is primarily a means of communicating with other people, a way of talking to them, of expressing our feelings about ourselves and them. It is essentially a language, a body language, in which one can express gentleness and affection, anger and resentment, superiority and dependence far more succinctly than would be possible verbally, where expressions are unavoidably abstract and often clumsy.

So much of courtship is the unspoken.

Some eyes threaten like a loaded and levelled pistol, and others are as insulting as hissing or kicking; some have no more expression than blueberries, while others are as deep as a well which you can fall into.

I just stick my tongue out because I hate smiling in pictures.

Levi was smiling. He kicked her chair again.

The man is only half himself, the other half is his expression.

Two people kissing always look like fish.

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.