Language Quote by 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

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

Flaubert was right when he said that our use of language is like a cracked kettle on which we bang out tunes for bears…

— Christopher Hitchens

“...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

“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

“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

“Bears, it turns out, are a lot like humans. They form alliances with strangers, they make calculations about relative costs and benefits, they lay…

— Benjamin Kilham

“I believe language is infinitely malleable, a live being in our hands, which deserves our great respect and curiosity”

— Brian Kiteley

“We're living in a teetering tower of babble. A shaky reality of words. A DNA soup for disaster. The natural world destroyed, we're left…

— Chuck Palanhiuk

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

— Michael Cunningham

“There are a lot of human experiences that challenge the limits of our language,”

— Ava Dellaira