Communication Quote by Flaubert Gustave

“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

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

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

“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 most exaggerated speeches usually hid the weakest of feelings - as though the fullness of the soul did not overflow into the emptiest…

— Gustave Flaubert

“If I listen hard enough, I can almost hear the stars whispering to each other. Cruel, biting whispers.”

— Kelsey Sutton

“When speaking to a Bear of Very Little Brain, remember that long words may bother him.”

— Anonymous

“Language is like poppies. It just takes something to churn the earth round them up, and when it does up come the sleeping words,…

— Ali Smith

“Humans speak too much. They chatter like chimps, crowding the world with their noise even when they have nothing to say.”

— Katherine Applegate

“If only we could always say our truths--if we could name the things that haunt us--maybe they could float up from us like the…

— Rita Zoey Chin

“I wondered why humans were even given the gift of speech at all. We no longer needed it; we’ve forgotten to talk about anything.…

— Rasmenia Massoud

“It takes the human voice to infuse them with the shades of deeper meaning.”

— Maya Angelou