Bangs Quote by 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

“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

“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

“...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

“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

The old adage, that "music is a universal language", is really true.

— William Fitzsimmons

We must plow through the whole of language.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Silly humans. Banging on a tub to make a bear dance when we would move the stars to pity.

— Michael Cunningham

Words will never fully capture what is alive in our hearts.It would be a shame, though, if we denied our bears their dancing.

— Dinty W. Moore

We cannot stem linguistic change, but we can drag our feet. If each of us were to defy Alexander Pope and be the last…

— Willard Van Orman Quine

Even though we can't communicate using the same language, we use music instead.

— Kim Jong-hyun

We have this enormous connection to the living world that is reflected in our language.

— Jean Berko Gleason