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Human Speech Quotes by Gustave Flaubert
- 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…
- [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…
- 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…
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- A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence… — Margaret Atwood
- [My] interest as a writer is not in reflecting actual human speech, which, of course, does not occur in sentences and is… — John Green
- India is, the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and… — Mark Twain
- The Creation speaks a universal language, independent of human speech or human language, multiplied and various as they be. It is an… — Thomas Paine
- Just as typography is human speech translated into what can be read, so photography is the translation of reality into a readable… — Herbert Bayer
- I'm saying that the domain of poetry includes both oral & written forms, that poetry goes back to a pre-literate situation &… — Jerome Rothenberg
- For the Amahuaca, the Koyukon, the Apache, and the diverse Aboriginal peoples of Australia - as for numerous other indigenous peoples -… — 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… — 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… — Dennis Potter
- Take the word Liberty from human speech and all the other words become poor, withered, meaningless sounds - but with that word… — 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… — Vaclav Havel