Hum Quotes
170 quotes by 147 authors
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I write my lyrics into the computer and I hum my music into the dictaphone.
— Sebastian Bach
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The sky was of the deepest blue, with a few white, fleecy clouds drifting lazily across it, and the air was filled with the low…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Somewhere in, I think, the back of the mind of some [education] policy makers is this idea that if we fine-tune it well enough, if…
— Ken Robinson
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The wind that makes music in November corn is in a hurry. The stalks hum, the loose husks whisk skyward in half-playing swirls, and the…
— Aldo Leopold
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In our Army every soldier must care about his job. Often- if the duty seems menial or hum-drum- it is hard to cultivate this attitude.…
— William O. Wooldridge
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Here is a little forest Whose leaf is ever green; Here is a brighter garden, Where not a frost has been; In its unfading flowers…
— Emily Dickinson
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One's condition on marijuana is always existential. One can feel the importance of each moment and how it is changing one. One feels one's being,…
— Norman Mailer
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You empty yourself and wait, listening. After a time you hear it: There is nothing there...You feel the world's word as a tension, a hum,…
— Annie Dillard
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Moment by moment throughout our lifetime, our brains hum with the work of making meaning: weaving together many thousands of threads of information into all…
— Daniel Tammet
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The Unexpected stalks a farm in big boots like a vagrant bent on havoc. Not every farmer is an inventor, but the good ones have…
— Verlyn Klinkenborg
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Bees sip honey from flowers and hum their thanks when they leave. The gaudy butterfly is sure that the flowers owe thanks to him.
— Rabindranath Tagore
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The melodies were melodies that anybody could sing or hum or whistle. And the words were just about that simple. I think the stories Hank…
— Don Helms
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What am I doing with my life am I living it or am I just going to some hum drum job that I don't really…
— Kai Greene
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I heard stories from my mother's mother who was an American Indian. She was spiritual, although she did not go to church, but she had…
— Tina Turner
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With my personal preparation at the piano, I can afford to hum at half voice.
— Placido Domingo
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Look at yourselves. Some of you teenagers, students. How do you think I feel and I belong to a generation ahead of you - how…
— Malcolm X
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The bells they sound on Bredon, And still the steeples hum. "Come all to church, good people"- Oh, noisy bells, be dumb; I hear you,…
— A. E. Housman
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When I look on you a moment, then I can speak no more, but my tongue falls silent, and at once a delicate flame courses…
— Sappho
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Silent Summer - a never-ending heat wave, devoid of birdsong, insect hum, and all the weird and wonderful living noises that subconsciously keep us company.
— Mark Lynas
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Street sign: Ho Hum Road & Easy Street In retirement, I look for days off from my days off.
— Mason Cooley
Who Wrote These Hum Quotes
147 authors contributed a total of 170 Hum Quotes, led by these top contributors: