Mary Martin Quotes

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

How I say it has as much of an impact on what people think of me as what I say.

The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.

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

There's many ways you communicate. With colour, texture, sound... Even words can communicate.

Behold the hands, how they promise, conjure, appeal, menace, pray, supplicate, refuse, beckon, interrogate, admire, confess, cringe, instruct, command, mock and what not besides, with a variation and multiplication of variation which makes the tongue envious.

It is one of the worst things of sentiment that the voice grows to be more important than the words, and the speaker than that what is spoken.

I believe that dance was the first art. A philosopher has said that dance and architecture were the first arts. I believe that dance was first because it's gesture, it's communication. That doesn't mean it's telling a story, but it means it's communicating a feeling, a sensation to people.

We don't communicate in full sentences anyway. We don't need all those words.

If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.

Language is a more recent technology. Your body language, your eyes, your energy will come through to your audience before you even start speaking.

Watch how you communicate with a woman. Because you're always communicating, even when you're not talking - with your body language, your facial expressions, your eyes.

Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body.

I can look into someone's eyes and feel like I know her better, versus a phone call, where you can't get that same type of emotion. That's why text messaging gets you in trouble: You can't bond, and emoticons explain only so much.

In silence and movement you can show the reflection of people.

It's really important how you say things because people won't necessarily remember what words you used, but they'll remember how you made them feel.

Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.

There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It's always been my way of expressing what, for me, is inexpressible by any other means.

It takes more drawing to tell a story in pantomime.

The voice is a second face.

Gestures matter.

Body language is more fascinating to me than actual language.

Dancing is like - it's another way of communicating, no?

I want to let my feet speak.

People that don't talk are constipated. I'm sorry, but if you can't communicate, what do you have? You have nothing.