Bangs Quote by Christopher Hitchens

“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

I learned to use language like my mother did. I would simulcast, give you the program in your own tongue.

— Trevor Noah

“Hear me, man, he said. There is room on the stage for one beast and one alone. All others are destined for a night…

— Cormac McCarthy

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

— Gustave Flaubert

“...and since, human speech is like a cracked tin kettle, on which we hammer out tunes to make bears dance when we long to…

— Flaubert Gustave

Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music…

— Gustave Flaubert

“Bears that dance, bears that don't.”

— Cormac McCarthy

“No one, ever, can give the exact measure of his needs, his apprehensions, or his sorrows; and human speech is like a cracked cauldron…

— Gustave Flaubert

Human speech is like a cracked cauldron on which we bang out tunes that make bears dance, when what we want is to move…

— Gustave Flaubert

And there was that poor sucker Flaubert rolling around on his floor for three days looking for the right word.

— Dorothy Parker

I have a boundless passion for Flaubert. It's unthinkable to me that someone might not have read 'Madame Bovary.' He writes with a scalpel.…

— Brigitte Macron