Helen Fisher Quotes

I love reading people. I really enjoy watching, observing, and being able to figure out a person, the reason they wore that dress, the reason they smell the way they do.

You can tell a lot from someone's eyes.

I think the eyes are very revealing and can expose a lot about a persons mood or character.

I love studying how people are. Not just what they're saying, but how they are, what they're doing.

I'm a world-class people watcher. I like to watch people's body movements, their expressions. It says so much about them.

I don't see myself as angry, although other people see that. I just see myself as a short, dumpy guy with bad feet, and I'm passionate.

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.

To a guy like me, a laugh is full of information.

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.

My eyebrows make a more profound impact on other people than they do on me. I just let 'em grow.

I think humans are just hard-wired to process people's faces and understand meaning and expression at such a more granular level than other types of communication.

The study of expression ought to form a part of the study of psychology, but it also comes within the province of anthropology because the habitual, life-long expressions of the face determine the wrinkles of old age, which are distinctly an anthropological characteristic.

Make it your profitable habit to carefully study facial expressions. You can see the entire human drama in a face; you can tell its owner's history.

I've always been a keen observer of people.

When I meet a woman, I know how her brow will look.

My body language, it doesn't have anything to do with my coaches or my teammates.

Human behavior is so intriguing. I find myself giving thumbs up signs all the time. I know I look like an absolute dork, but I do it anyway.

Faces are as legible as books, only with these circumstances to recommend them to our perusal, that they are read in much less time, and are much less likely to deceive us.

People's opinions of themselves are legible in their countenances.

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.

Finding the physical aspect is important to me because that is often how we read people in everyday life.

when someone speaks he looks at a mouth, not eyes and their colors, which, it seems to him, will always alter depending on the light of a room, the minute of the day. Mouths reveal insecurity or smugness or any other point on the spectrum of character. For him they are the most intricate aspect of faces. He's never sure what an eye reveals. but he can read how mouths darken into callousness, suggest tenderness. One can often misjudge an eye from its reaction to a simple beam of sunlight.

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.

Air and manners are more expressive than words.

There is nothing truer than physiognomy, taken in connection with manner.