Hum Quotes

170 quotes by 147 authors

If you can't play all the instruments in the orchestra of story, no matter what music may be in your imagination, you're condemned to hum… — Robert McKee
For flowers that bloom about our feet; For tender grass, so fresh, so sweet; For song of bird, and hum of bee; For all things… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Pornography is rather like trying to find out about a Beethoven symphony by having somebody tell you about it and perhaps hum a few bars. — Robertson Davies
The poetâ€™s life is just so much crenellated waste, nights and days whipping swiftly or laboriously past the cinematic window. Weâ€™re hunched and weaving over… — Eileen Myles
There is a grandeur in the uniformity of the mass. When a fashion, a dance, a song, a slogan or a joke sweeps like wildfire… — Eric Hoffer
What I admire is people who are grounded and resistant to all kinds of whisperings. Kimi Raikkonen, for example. You may like him or not,… — Sebastian Vettel
A sentence is like a tune. A memorable sentence gives its emotion a melodic shape. You want to hear it again, say itâ€”in a way,… — Robert Pinsky
The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine,… — John Milton
Maberry is a master at writing scenes that surge and hum with tension. The pacing is relentless. He presses the accelerator to the floor and… — S.G. Browne
During your lifetime, the people of our culture are going to figure out how to live sustainably on this planet--or they're not. Either way, it's… — Daniel Quinn
The breezes taste Of apple peel. The air is full Of smells to feel- Ripe fruit, old footballs, Burning brush, New books, erasers, Chalk, and… — John Updike
Hawthorn, white and odorous with blossom, framing the quiet fields, and swaying flowers and grasses, and the hum of bees. — F. S Flint
Tower'd cities please us then, And the busy hum of men. — John Milton
Let them like the Tibetans, chew the cud of their "om mane padme hum" innumerable times, or, as in Benares, count the name of the… — Friedrich Nietzsche
I knew I couldn't sing over them, so I decided to sing under them. The more noise they made the more softly I sang. When… — Peggy Lee
A melody is not merely something you can hum. — Aaron Copland
I was a really picky eater as a child. Because I was obsessed by Popeye, my mum and aunts would put my food in a… — Paul O'Grady
You put out a funny podcast, you talk about bak chor mee. I will say mee siam mai hum. — Lee Hsien Loong
I recall this passage as the hour of its first fully coming over me that she was a beautiful liberal creature. I had seen her… — Henry James
When people generally are aware of a problem, it can be said to have entered the public consciousness. When people get on their hind legs… — Hubert H. Humphrey

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