Africa Quote by Boyd Norton

Some languages are musical in themselves, so that it is pleasant to hear any one read or converse in them, even though we do…

— Horace Mann

“Language is like poppies. It just takes something to churn the earth round them up, and when it does up come the sleeping words,…

— Ali Smith

“Human Language is like a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, when all the time we are…

— Gustave Flaubert

“Pre-high tech, objects thunked and crashed and clopped, amid a thunder of drums, a tumult of trumpets. Today things beep and cheep and whistle.…

— A.J. Orde

Flaubert was right when he said that our use of language is like a cracked kettle on which we bang out tunes for bears…

— Christopher Hitchens

Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move…

— Gustave Flaubert

What I think is going on is that probably language was entertainment long before it was meaning. It's a kind of tuneless singing.

— Terence McKenna

“Language is a cracked kettle on which we bang out tunes to make the bears dance, when what we long for is to move…

— Anonymous

“Language is like poppies. It just takes something to churn the earth round them up, and when it does up come the sleeping words,…

— Ali Smith

“The calls of birds and the traces left by wolves to mark off their territories are no less forms of language than the sings…

— John Gray

“staggering out of Language, into language”

— China Miéville

“Language, the homeland and receptacle of beauty and meaning, itself begins to think and speak for man and turns wholly into music, not in…

— Boris Pasternak