Logo
Quote by Gustave Flaubert
Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythm

Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars. – Gustave Flaubert

Other quotes by 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 the stars to pity. – Gustave Flaubert

Category:
Language
Author
Gustave Flaubert
Read Quote

Stupidity is something unshakable nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant. – Gustave Flaubert

Category:
Nature
Author
Gustave Flaubert
Read Quote

Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness nothing but faith, faith and freedom. – Gustave Flaubert

Category:
Art
Author
Gustave Flaubert
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Music
category

Musics been around a long time, and theres going to be music long after Ray Charles is dead. I just want to make my mark, leave something musically good behind. If its a big record, thats the frosting on the cake, but musics the main meal. – Ray Charles

Category:
Music

I came into music just because I wanted the bread. Its true. I looked around and this seemed like the only way I was going to get the kind of bread I wanted. – Mick Jagger

Category:
Music

Anything I do has to be directly related to my music. If it isnt, I dont really see a point to it. – Alanis Morissette

Category:
Music

Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes. – Bill Cosby

Category:
Music

Random Quotes

Shutting off the thought process is not rejuvenating the mind is like a car battery – it recharges by running. – Bill Watterson

Category:
car

To think that the new economy is over is like somebody in London in 1830 saying the entire industrial revolution is over because some textile manufacturers in Manchester went broke. – Alvin Toffler

Category:
Business

I havent ever really relied on relationships with guys. They come around and its cool, but its never been a big thing. I guess Ive just been really distracted by work. – Leighton Meester

Category:
cool

So justice while she winks at crimes,
Stumbles on innocence sometimes. – Samuel Butler (poet)

Category:
Innocence