C
Christine Kenneally
5 quotes
Quotes
- “[I]t is almost impossible to talk about space without gesturing. Gesture is spontaneous, and is integral to individual e...”
- “The rules of syntax and intonation and words matured over time into the system we have today because they were progressi...”
- “The ultimate goal of this book is to present fragments from an epic about an animal that evolved, started talking, start...”
- “But there is no agency in evolution; it is inadvertent. We survived, modified, and multiplied, just like any animal aliv...”
- “At its most fundamental, language is an act of shared attention, and without the fundamentally human willingness to list...”