Dance 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

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

“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

“...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

Language is like songs, like food, like dance-it is the expression of what we think.

— Holly Near

Music is the universal language.

— Swizz Beatz

“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

Music is indeed the Universal Language.

— L. Ron Hubbard

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

Language is wine upon the lips.

— Virginia Woolf

Language is like drinking from one's own reflection in still water. We only take from it what we are at the time.

— Simon Van Booy