Communication Quote 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…

— 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 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

“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

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

— Michael Cunningham

We have to look at the figures of speech a writer uses, his images and symbols, to realize that underneath all the complexity of…

— Northrop Frye

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

Speech is one of the marvels that characterize man, and also one of the most difficult spontaneous creations that have been accomplished by nature.

— Maria Montessori

Speech is the mark of humanity. It is the normal terminus of thought.

— Susanne Katherina Langer

Speech is as a pump, by which we raise and pour out the water from the great lake of Thought,--whither it flows back again.

— John Sterling

Speech is civilization itself.

— Thomas Mann