Henry David Thoreau Quotes

I see tendencies, I see body language.

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

I am spoken to not in words, which come to me quaint and veiled, but in signs, in conformations of face and hands, in postures of shoulders and feet, in nuances of tune and tone, in gaps and absences whose grammar has never been recorded.

Don't write anything you can phone. Don't phone anything you can talk. Don't talk anything you can whisper. Don't whisper anything you can smile. Don't smile anything you can nod. Don't nod anything you can wink.

You can convey a lot of emotion with just some eyebrows and mouth movement.

Language is handy, but we humans have social and emotional connections that transcend words and are communicated - and understood - without conscious thought.

It's kind of amazing how well you can get to know someone without talking.

A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations.

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.

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

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.

Sometimes at the best moments a single word or a look is enough.'

Wise men read very sharply all your private history in your look and gait and behavior. The whole economy of nature is bent on expression. The tell-tale body is all tongues. Men are like Geneva watches with crystal faces which expose the whole movement.

Mind not only what people say, but how they say it; and if you have any sagacity, you may discover more truth by your eyes than by your ears. People can say what they will, but they cannot look just as they will; and their looks frequently (reveal) what their words are calculated to conceal.

I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings." -from the Fox-

We speak with more than our mouths. We listen with more than our ears.

My wife can look at me in a certain way and I can tell by her eyes how she's feeling about me or when I should stop talking about something. It's kind of the way twins have their own thing.

There is a language that is beyond words. If I can learn to decipher that language without words, I will be able to decipher the world.

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

Men reveal what they think when they look away, and what they feel when they hesitate. With women, it's the other way around

There are all kinds of symbols. Verbal language is only one. Sometimes by opening our mouths, we make dreadful errors. It's often so much nicer just to look at somebody and vibrate.

You don't need to be told some things. You can sometimes tell more by a man's silence and the set of his head than by what he says.