Human Speech Quotes

19 quotes by 16 authors

• A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together. — Margaret Atwood
• [My] interest as a writer is not in reflecting actual human speech, which, of course, does not occur in sentences and is totally undiagrammable...My interest… — John Green
• India is, the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grand… — Mark Twain
• The Creation speaks a universal language, independent of human speech or human language, multiplied and various as they be. It is an ever-existing original, which… — Thomas Paine
• Just as typography is human speech translated into what can be read, so photography is the translation of reality into a readable image. — Herbert Bayer
• I'm saying that the domain of poetry includes both oral & written forms, that poetry goes back to a pre-literate situation & would survive a… — Jerome Rothenberg
• For the Amahuaca, the Koyukon, the Apache, and the diverse Aboriginal peoples of Australia - as for numerous other indigenous peoples - the coherence of… — David Abram
• I've been thinking about something for a long time, and I keep noticing that most human speech-if not all human speech-is made with the outgoing… — Li-Young Lee
• If music could be translated into human speech, it would no longer need to exist. — Ned Rorem
• The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not? — Dennis Potter
• Take the word Liberty from human speech and all the other words become poor, withered, meaningless sounds - but with that word realized - with… — Robert Green Ingersoll
• The question is...whether we shall, by whatever means, succeed in reconstituting the natural world as the true terrain of politics, rehabilitating the personal experience of… — Vaclav Havel
• The spoken discourse may roll on strongly as the great tidal wave; but, like the wave, it dies at last feebly on the sands. It… — Albert Pike
• 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
• [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
• Central to everything I am and believe and have written is my astonishment, naive as it seems to people, that you can use human speech… — George Steiner
• No human speech comes without error, if it does come without error, then it is God speaking. — Terry Mark
• Human speech is like a cracked cauldron on which we bang out tunes that make bears dance, when what we want is to move the… — Gustave Flaubert
• India is the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grand… — Mark Twain

Who Wrote These Human Speech Quotes

16 authors contributed a total of 19 Human Speech Quotes as follows:

• 3 Human Speech Quotes by Gustave Flaubert
• 2 Human Speech Quotes by Mark Twain
• 1 Human Speech Quote by Margaret Atwood
• 1 Human Speech Quote by John Green
• 1 Human Speech Quote by Thomas Paine
• 1 Human Speech Quote by Herbert Bayer
• 1 Human Speech Quote by Jerome Rothenberg
• 1 Human Speech Quote by David Abram
• 1 Human Speech Quote by Li-Young Lee
• 1 Human Speech Quote by Ned Rorem
• 1 Human Speech Quote by Dennis Potter
• 1 Human Speech Quote by Robert Green Ingersoll
• 1 Human Speech Quote by Vaclav Havel
• 1 Human Speech Quote by Albert Pike
• 1 Human Speech Quote by George Steiner
• 1 Human Speech Quote by Terry Mark