Top 1200 Body Language Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

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

Everybody has a language or code that they use with their wife or their girlfriend or boyfriend or what have you. It's a language aside from the language they have with strangers.

Where our language suggests a body and there is none: there, we should like to say, is a spirit.

On stage, you're not limited at all because you're free in language: language is the source of the imagination. You can travel farther in language than you can in any film.

XML is not a language in the sense of a programming language any more than sketches on a napkin are a language.

I assume the body language no matter what in doing voiceover. There is a transformative aspect.

Every big company has some little guy who is an enthusiast off in the corner working on technology. In Japan, it is integrated into their high-level strategy. They see it as a communication medium, because for them, just the words? - ?and this is the problem that they have with Americans? - ?just the words they say to you is not the complete message. Their facial expressions, their body language, there is a lot of context. Also, their written language doesn't translate to keyboards well.

Shoes transform your body language and attitude. They lift you physically and emotionally.

The deaf community relies so much on eye contact, expression and body language. It's such a huge part of who we are.

I believe every person has a story that comes out from the way they talk, their opinion, their mindset and their body language.

Before you get into the mind, you have to inhabit the physicality. Body language is a great way of speaking.

Language casts sheaves of reality upon the social body, stamping it and violently shaping it.

Language is the instrument in all cases and can language be trusted?If it were not for language, could we lie?

The Urdu or Hindustani language we use isn't popular in theatre these days. It was a language that was being used in cinema from the 1950s until the '80s. It is a very communicative language.

In a costume, you need very exaggerated body language - as you say, sort of mime-type skills.

One way to think about what psychedelics are is as catalysts for language development. They literally force the evolution of language. You cannot evolve faster than your language because the language defines the culture of meaning. So if there's a way to accelerate the evolution of language then this is real consciousness expansion and it's a permanent thing. The great legacies of the 60's are in attitudes and language. It boils down to doing your own thing, feeling the vibe, ego-trip, blowing your mind.

Language comes first. It's not that language grows out of consciousness, if you haven't got language, you can't be conscious.

Obviously no language is innate. Take any kid from any race, bring them up in any culture and they will learn the language equally quickly. So no particular language is in the genes. But what might be in the genes is the ability to acquire language.

Sexist language, racist language, theistic language - all are typical of the policing languages of mastery, and cannot, do not, permit new knowledge or encourage the mutual exchange of ideas.

When language is treated beautifully and interestingly, it can feel good for the body: It's nourishing; it's rejuvenating.

[... Dance] involves every possible feeling (as potential), because it is of the body, which is lived (inescapably) as a body of feeling. Some of these feelings we can name, and some we cannot, since we associate feelings with language only when we name them. The body lives sentience on a preverbal level. Dance exists first on this primordial level, not on an intellectual plane (even though it requires skill and intelligence). Its inmost substance cannot be reasoned, only experienced.

Gin a body meet a body Coming thro' the rye, Gin a body kiss a body— Need a body cry?

Poetry is not the language we live in. It's not the language of our day-to-day errand-running and obligation-fulfilling, not the language with which we are asked to justify ourselves to the outside world. It certainly isn't the language to which commercial value has been assigned.

What is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning.

Language is possible due to a number of cognitive and physical characteristics that are unique to humans but none of which that are unique to language. Coming together they make language possible. But the fundamental building block of language is community.

The advantage of the gypsy language, even though I don't understand it that much, the language is perfect melody. So if you propose the movie the way I do, then the language is just one part of the melody. Orchestrating all inside, and the language is following the meaning of what they say, and it's never the same as written.

I get labelled lazy maybe because of my body language; I'm quite laid-back.

I think my body language and how I carry myself speaks for me as a person.

A woman's physical body language and intelligence change as her age progresses.

The language of the land in the Parthian empire was the native language of Iran. There is no trace pointing to any foreign language having ever been in public use under the Arsacids.

If the theatre has taught me anything, it's that when things change in the body, in the body politic, in the body of the world, in the body of the earth, in the body of the person, there's change. You never go back.

The job of the poet is to use language effectively, his own language, the only language which is to him authentic.

There is a language beyond human language, an elemental language, one that arises from the land itself.

Portuguese is the language of my heart; it's the language of my feelings. It's the language that I feel I can express myself best in.

Lying is the misuse of language. We know that. We need to remember that it works the other way round too. Even with the best intentions, language misused, language used stupidly, carelessly, brutally, language used wrongly, breeds lies, half-truths, confusion. In that sense you can say that grammar is morality. And it is in that sense that I say a writer's first duty is to use language well.

Visual art is a foreign language I'm fluent at, but my native language is language.

Language. I loved it. And for a long time I would think of myself, of my whole body, as an ear.

Every language having a structure, by the very nature of language, reflects in its own structure that of the world as assumed by those who evolved the language. In other words, we read unconsciously into the world the structure of the language we use.

Play with your physical workplace in a way that sends positive "body language" to employees and visitors.

It has not been definitively proved that the language of words is the best possible language. And it seems that on the stage, which is above all a space to fill and a place where something happens, the language of words may have to give way before a language of signs whose objective aspect is the one that has the most immediate impact upon us.

Ultimately the body will rebel. Even if it can be temporarily pacified with the help of drugs, cigarettes or medicine, it usually has the last word because it is quicker to see through self-deception than the mind. We may ignore or deride the messages of the body, but its rebellion demands to be heeded because its language is the authentic expression of our true selves and of the strength of our vitality.

Anorexia was my attempt to have control over my body and manipulate my body and starve my body and shape my body. It was not a very good relationship. It was the sort of relationship my father had to my body. It was a tyrannical, "you'll do what I tell you" relationship.

Quiet talk is the language of love. It is the language of peace. It is the language of God.

American Sign Language requires a lot of facial and body expression.

The physical language of the body is so much more powerful than words.

Bharathirajaa taught me everything, from body language to emoting with one's eyes.

I want to find a language that transforms language itself into steel for the spirit--a language to use against these sparkling insects, these jets.

I'm German! Actually, I love my countr, ;I love the language. The German language is very special because it is so precise. There is a word for everything. There are so many wonderful words that other languages don't have. It is impressive to have such a rich language, and I love to work in that language.

Greek is a musical and prolific language, that gives a soul to the objects of sense, and a body to the abstractions of philosophy.

I love the body language of the women cricketers and the attitude with which they carry themselves.

I never taught language for the purpose of teaching it; but invariably used language as a medium for the communication of thought; thus the learning of language was coincident with the acquisition of knowledge.

A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.

In a language, in the system of language, there are only differences. Therefore, a taxonomical operation an undertake the systematic, statistical, and classificatory inventory of a language.

Everyone knows ladies love Cajuns. It's in our blood and our language is the language of romance." "Your language is the language of bullshit. You're just a couple of good ole boys with pretty faces. Women just ought to know better.

Urdu can not die out because it has very strong roots in Persia. The language itself is not only just the language of the Muslims, but it's also the language of the Hindus.

One sacrifice has to be made: never use harsh or rude language. Foul language you can use; foul language doesn't hurt. Foul language is forgivable (though it is bad). But rude language cannot be forgiven.

I like to express myself fully with my body, with my language, with my voice, and through directing.

The main effect of the Internet on language has been to increase the expressive richness of language, providing the language with a new set of communicative dimensions that haven't existed in the past.

The official language of the State of Illinois shall be known hereafter as the American language, and not the English language.

Never ask a woman if you may kiss her. Instead, learn to read body language.