Cracked Kettle Quotes
- Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that… — Gustave Flaubert
- Flaubert was right when he said that our use of language is like a cracked kettle on which we bang out tunes for bears to… — Christopher Hitchens
- [T]he truth is that fullness of soul can sometimes overflow in utter vapidity of language, for none of us can ever express the exact measure… — Gustave Flaubert
- Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the… — Gustave Flaubert