Humming Quotes
81 quotes by 76 authors
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To write a book is for all the world like humming a song.
— Laurence Sterne
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One has the feeling of enormous safety. You don't have the torque from the propeller. You have no noise; it's almost like little electric motors…
— Erich Warsitz
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I still hear you humming, Mama. The colour of your song calls me home. The colour of your words saying, Let her be. She got…
— Sonia Sanchez
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The brain is the organ of destiny. It holds within its humming mechanism secrets that will determine the future of the human race.
— Wilder Penfield
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How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land? The idea is strange to us. If we do not own the…
— Chief Seattle
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If sequestered pain made a sound, the atmosphere would be humming all the time.
— Stephen Levine
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Today it takes no great stretch of the imagination to envisage the earth as an interconnected globe humming with electronic transmissions - a chattering planet…
— John Foley
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As an example of just how useless these philosophers are for any practice in life there is Socrates himself, the one and only wise man,…
— Desiderius Erasmus
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You've got to find ways to breathe while you're dancing so that when it comes time for you to stop and sing again, you have…
— Kristin Chenoweth
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Have you ever observed a humming-bird moving about in an aerial dance among the flowers - a living prismatic gem.... it is a creature of…
— William Henry Hudson
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To write a book is for all the world like humming a song—be but in tune with yourself, madam, 'tis no matter how high or…
— Laurence Sterne
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Bebop was like humming along to Mitch Miller to me.
— Albert Ayler
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You look at it [a photograph] and all around the real world is humming, buzzing and moving, and yet in this little frame there is…
— Joel Meyerowitz
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To be worth making at all a journey has to be made in the mind as much as in the world of objects and dimensions.…
— Ted Simon
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Here’s what I learned: First thing in the morning, before I have drowned myself in coffee, while I still have that sleepy brain I used…
— Merrill Markoe
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Solitude in the city is about the lack of other people or rather their distance beyond a door or wall, but in remote places it…
— Rebecca Solnit
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Remembering how my mother looked before she gave birth to my sister is frightening. But even more frightening is the feeling that I wanted them…
— Daniel Keyes
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I never travel across this great nation without experiencing a feeling of gratitude and thanksgiving for all that we have and are. As I see…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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It was almost noon when the plane touched down at the Triad airport on the outskirts of Greensboro. There was a hire car waiting for…
— Greg Egan
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When April winds Grew soft, the maple burst into a flush Of scarlet flowers. The tulip tree, high up, Opened in airs of June her…
— William C. Bryant
Who Wrote These Humming Quotes
76 authors contributed a total of 81 Humming Quotes, led by these top contributors: