J. K. Rowling Quotes

Let me hear your body talk.

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 love body language.

I trained to become a sign-language interpreter because it helps you read physical expression and the emotions of body language.

I hate it when she tabs a line," Ivy whispered to Kisten in the corner. "You ever see anything freakier than that?" "You should see the face she makes when she—" "Shut up, Kist!" I exclaimed, my eyes flashing open to find him grinning at me.

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

When articulation is impossible, gesticulation comes to the rescue.

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

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

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

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

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.'

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

There's as much revealed in the way a person lifts a glass as in what they say about some political issue.

Gestures matter.

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

Body language is more fascinating to me than actual language.

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

A picture can say a thousand words but maybe not the correct ones.

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

When you talk about objects, one other thing automatically comes attached to that thing, and that is gestures: how we manipulate these objects, how we use these objects in everyday life. We use gestures not only to interact with these objects, but we also use them to interact with each other.

Body language and tone of voice - not words - are our most powerful assessment tools.

Conversation: The slowest form of human communication.

There is as much expression in the feet as in the hands.

% of what you understand in a conversation is read through the body, not the words.