Body Language Quotes

“Simply minding one's own business is more offensive than being intrusive. Without ever saying a word one can make a person feel less-than.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“Dancing is creating a sculpture that is visible only for a moment.”
― Erol Ozan

“I can do everything with my language but not with my body. What I hide by my language, my body utters. I can deliberately mold my message, not my voice. By my voice, whatever it says, the other will recognize "that something is wrong with me". I am a liar (by preterition), not an actor. My body is a stubborn child, my language is a very civilized adult...”
― Roland Barthes, A Lover's Discourse: Fragments

“A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience." -Naomi Wolf”
― Stacey M. Rosenfeld

“Words travel as swiftly as desire, so it is possible to send a message of love without them.”
― Laura Esquivel, Swift as Desire

“The utmost form of respect is to give sincerely of your presence.”
― Mollie Marti

“People blush when one of their core truths is revealed.”
― Keith Ablow, Murder Suicide

“When speechless, let body do the talk.”
― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

“During a conversation, listening is as powerful as loving.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practical man relies on the language of the first.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Conduct of Life: By Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Some questions are shaped like slow elevators, and they deserve words that fill spaces like notes from a brass saxophone. Sometimes the silence of body language is music for my eyes.”
― Jarod Kintz, I design saxophone music in blocks, like Stonehenge

“The captains of England and Australia can barely exchange pleasantries these days without a body-language expert immediately declaiming on the angle of their handshakes.”
― Lawrence Booth

“Maybe we communicate with ducks not through words, but with body language. Maybe the word quack doesn’t mean everything—or even anything. Maybe all that matters is what our body says when we converse with a duck.”
― Jarod Kintz, Music is fluid, and my saxophone overflows when my ducks slosh in the sounds I make in elevators.

“All your non-verbal thoughts and feelings are like radio waves, and someone picks them up and comes in and treats you the way you’re asking to be treated.”
― Betty Bethards, Sex and Psychic Energy

“Finn radiates pain. He's so tense, it hurts to look at him. I wonder if he realizes it. In my experience, most people—most neurotypical people—don't. Even if they'll talk about nonverbal language and how important it is, they don't realize how unconscious most reactions are and how much they're sharing. But I do. You teach yourself how to read body language when winning a game—or navigating life—depends on it.”
― Marieke Nijkamp, Even If We Break

“I taught myself to be as fluent as possible in nonverbal languages because it's the only way to understand what people aren't saying, to carve out your space and claim it. It's the only way I can feel like I know what's going on.”
― Marieke Nijkamp, Even If We Break

“I like books, but my favorite way to get information is to read a person's mind through their body language. It’s always the best writing.”
― Jarod Kintz, Don't Even Get Me Started On The Beastie Boys

“I speak with a British accent, but only when using body language. Helen Keller is my communication coach.”
― Jarod Kintz, There are Two Typos of People in This World: Those Who Can Edit and Those Who Can't

“Dancing is swearing in an unknown language.”
― Alain Bremond-Torrent, running is flying intermittently

“Probably one of the often overlooked framing components
is body language. The way a question is framed might depend on a variety of factors, including posture, mood, facial gestures, and grin.”
― Josh King Madrid

“The karmic dumping ground of our body is the storehouse of many memories. Bodies have their own highly effective way of doing the talking.”
― Donna Goddard, Nanima: Spiritual Fiction

“I want to feel them shake with laughter beside me, tell them they've got sleep in the corner of their eye, tuck their tag in, lie in the grass with my head in their lap, smell the scent of their shampoo, touch their arm to get their attention in a group.”
― Tilly Lawless, Nothing but My Body

“I’ve learned over the years that a smile is a much more effective mask than a non-expression. Every non-expression is ultimately nothing but a blank canvas inviting unwanted and revealing expressions to flash into momentary visibility. But if you’re wearing a smile, those more revealing expressions have nowhere to go.”
― Sylvia Mercedes, Entranced

“Keller and the woman exchanged a polite smile and proceeded to look in different directions. The whole ride, they danced with gestures. Bradford would study the reflection of her face from the window in front of her and once pleased, he would look away as if to pass the baton and say, your turn. And she took it. The woman enjoyed his build and arms and eyelashes. She would turn to break her glance casually away and run her fingers through her hair, remembering the American man as if he were already a memory. Bradford’s cues were endless. He rolled up his sleeves. He let out a cough to share another peek. If there was the slightest noise in her direction, he would make an excuse to face curiously there. She was slightly limited by her seated position, but managed to follow after him, with her body attuned to her thoughts. She crossed her legs to prompt his curiosity of sudden movement. She spoke politely to an old lady for him to see. She saw how he wore green, too—a different pale, forest green sweater—but nonetheless green like hers!—and she loaded that stupid comment of matching clothes in her throat, should there ever be a window to fire. The climax was when the two seemingly searching, thinking, would look just around the other person, daring as close as an inch, but never directly. They soaked each other up in their peripheral views.”
― Karl Kristian Flores, A Happy Ghost

“Body language is the most powerful device in the world. It doesn’t lie, it doesn’t fool you and it lays bare the entire heart for everyone to see. That’s the body language for you.”
― Euginia Herlihy

“Back at the table, Adam has shifted to sit next to Georgie, filling my spot. Their heads are together, and even though one is blond and one dark, there's something remarkably similar in their lean, sparse bone structure, in the tilt of their necks. They look up to see me at exactly the same time, reflected lamplight gleaming in their liquid eyes, as if they are two heads of the same beast.”
― Lexie Elliott, How to Kill Your Best Friend

“If you haven't developed an ear to listen past the unspoken, you haven't developed hearing.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets

“Being able to read body language is kind of like having telepathy. It's like someone else's internal thoughts translated into book format, and all you have to do to understand is use your eyes.”
― Jarod Kintz, A Memoir of Memories and Memes

“When her lips went white with surprise, her mouth was shaped like a Pekin duck in flight. She tried to speak, but her slobbery words went swimming out invisibly and inaudibly, so I just nodded my head up and down while also gesturing slight no shakes from side to side.”
― Jarod Kintz, A Memoir of Memories and Memes

“You can't talk to someone who won't listen. But you can listen to someone who won't talk. It's called body language, and everybody speaks it—even when they're silent.”
― Jarod Kintz, A Memoir of Memories and Memes