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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Speech is one of the marvels that characterize man, and also one of the most difficult spontaneous creations that have been accomplished by nature.
Scientists attach great importance to the human capacity for spoken language. But we also have a parallel track of nonverbal communication, which may reveal more than our carefully chosen words, and sometimes be at odds with them.
Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
Speech is civilization itself.
Speech is a very important aspect of being human. A whisper doesn't cut it.
Human beings are human beings whether they speak or not.
Central to everything I am and believe and have written is my astonishment, naive as it seems to people, that you can use human speech both to bless, to love, to build, to forgive and also to torture, to hate, to destroy and to annihilate.
We still need a voice that thinks before it speaks.
Human language is lit with animal life: we play cats-cradle or have hare-brained ideas; we speak of badgering, or outfoxing someone; to squirrel something away and to ferret it out.
Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.