Quote by H.G. Wells Download Open image ““Everyone seemed eager to talk at once, and the result was Babel.”” — H.G. Wells ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“I’m always impressed by people who can speak another language, two people talking what sounds like utter gibberish, yet making complete sense to each… — Tom Reynolds Copy Share Image
“There were so many things I wanted to say at once if the words would just get out of each other's way. "Fine.” — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
“We were quite a team, I thought. One starts a task and the other finishes without a word being spoken.” — Cassie Dandridge Selleck Copy Share Image
“Our mouths were fluent in the language of each other and we moved with one mind and shared the same breath.” — Michelle Hodkin Copy Share Image
“the conversation of the mind was truer than any language, and they knew each other better than they ever could have by use of… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“The conversation advanced with remarkable ease. Talk is cheerful, the way talk is among people who rarely see one another and are surprised they… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
“It was artificial conversation, but it tided us over the first awkwardness.” — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“And so we went. And so it went. And, slowly, I began to learn: speaking in the same language does not equal communication, especially… — Gerry Abbey Copy Share Image
“sometimes it is necessary for us all to pretend together that language can really mean.” — Jill Talbot Copy Share Image
“I was stunned. He wasn't much of a talker in the best of times, but man, when he put his mind into it, he… — Jay Crownover Copy Share Image
“She invented her own language to say what everyone else could only feel.” — Hannah Kent Copy Share Image
“I was grotesque to the theatrical pitch, a stage miser, but I was certainly not a physical impossibility” — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
“Eight-and-twenty years,' said I, 'I have lived, and never a ghost have I seen as yet.' The old woman sat staring hard into the… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
“That is the germ of my great discovery. But you are wrong to say that we cannot move about in Time. For instance, if… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
“The thing [Henry James'] novel is about is always there. It is like a church lit but without a congregation to distract you, with… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
“We must remember what ruthless and utter destruction our own species has wrought, not only upon animals, such as vanished bison and the dodo,… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
“I grieved to think how brief the dream of the human intellect had been. It had committed suicide. It had set itself steadfastly towards… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
“What right have they to hope? They work ill and they want the reward of those who work well. The hope of mankind -… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
“So long as you are alive you are just the moment, perhaps, but when you are dead then you are all your life from… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
“An unpleasant odour would not be objected to, it is not objected to now in many continental hotels.” — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image