Change Quote by Bill Bryson

As our larynxes descended, we were able to make sounds with our mouths in new and far more expressive ways. Verbal language soon overtook…

— Jon Stewart

It was not the man's brain that was speaking; it was his larynx.

— George Orwell

“These Cro-Magnon people were identical to us: they had the same physique, the same brain, the same looks. And, unlike all previous hominids who…

— Bill Bryson

The human species took a crucial step forward when its vocal musculature came under operant control in the production of speech sounds. Indeed, it…

— B. F. Skinner

“Their throat muscles shifted sharply when they spoke, as if separately manufacturing each word.”

— Walter Kirn

“It was not the man’s brain that was speaking it was his larynx. The stuff that was coming out of him consisted of words…

— George Orwell

Our need to reimagine our world through the vibratory larynx, that's what matters. Re-awaken the world to itself. Through ideas, pictures, sounds. Hold the…

— Anne Waldman

“Indeed, tone or voice is what you get when, larynxlike, you breathe through structure.”

— Lawrence Weschler

“How do we do this - speak with our bodies even as we swallow our voices?”

— Sharanya Manivannan

“He rises off the bed and tries to speak, but cannot stop the pain in his throat, and cannot articulate a word, capable only…

— Emma Richler

“When I try to speak my throat is cut and, it seems, by his hand The sounds I make are prehuman, radical the telephone…

— Adrienne Rich

“In speech he stretched out his vowel sounds to give his mouth a rest before the next consonant.”

— Diane Setterfield