Laurell K. Hamilton Quotes

A lot of people use a smiley face when they write letters. But it's this huge insane compulsion, like 'I'm happy! I swear!' I'm not buying it.

Let your face speak what's in your heart.

Watch the mouth, it reveals what the eyes try to hide.

I'm against people reading statements. When you read statement, I automatically take it as though you can't talk, and it's not real.

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.

Remember that it is not enough to abstain from lying by word of mouth; for the worst lies are often conveyed by a false look, smile, or act.

It is difficult to imagine how any behavior in the presence of another person can avoid being a communication of one's own view of the nature of one's relationship with that person and how it can fail to influence that person.

You can't fake listening. It shows.

The whole underlying theme for the new music... is to communicate honest, human values, and in doing that to try to improve the quality of life.

My love ,she speaks like silence, without ideals or violence. She doesn't have to say she's faithful, yet she's true.

I think we can learn a lot about a person in the very moment that language fails them. In the very moment they they have to be more creative than they would have imagined in order to communicate. It's the very moment that they have to dig deeper than the surface to find words, and at the same time, it's a moment when they want to communicate very badly. They're digging deep and projecting out at the same time.

A man passes for that he is worth. What he is engraves itself on his face, on his form, on his fortunes, in letters of light. Concealment avails him nothing; boasting nothing. There is confession in the glances of our eyes; in our smiles; in salutations; and the grasp of hands.

It is a curious thing that when one speaks from the heart it is invariably in the worst of taste.

Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.

You can talk without saying a thing. I don't ever want to be that type of person.

There are many justifications of silence; there can be none of insincerity.

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

Sorry is the Kool-Aid of human emotions. It's what you say when you spill a cup of coffee or throw a gutter ball when you're bowling with the girls in the league. True sorrow is as rare as true love.

Air and manners are more expressive than words.

I love you and I always will and I am sorry. What a useless word.

Words are easy to say, but emotions betray the best intentions.

When you have to apologize, it is well, I suppose, to get the thing over quickly.

Music is the one thing in which there is no use trying to deceive others or make false pretenses.

And Nedley started saying,'Shut Up!Quit that! And i knew it really meant something to him. So I asked for his help,"Mark said. "Don't tell the story like that," Nedley laughed. "What he said was 'Quit pretendin you're a bad guy I need your help, and I need it now!