Humming Quotes
81 Humming quotes by 73 unique authors
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You've got to perform in a role hundreds of times. In keeping it fresh one can become a large, madly humming, demented refrigerator.
— Ralph Richardson
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I am a black woman the music of my song some sweet arpeggio of tears is written in a minor key and I can be…
— Mari Evans
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You always will be singing a song or humming a line or a melody.
— Dennis Brown
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But you make me sing like a guitar humming . . .
— Neil Diamond
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There are vast realms of consciousness still undreamed of -vast ranges of experience, like humming of unseen harps, we know nothing of, within us.
— D. H. Lawrence
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I found, and find, the scrutiny of Dr. Lecter uncomfortable, intrusive, like the humming of your thoughts when they x-ray your head.
— Thomas Harris
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In Rio Bravo when Duke makes love to Feathers, the scene dissolves to the next morning where we see him putting on his vest and…
— Angie Dickinson
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If I try to write a song, I will completely fail to write a song. But if I'm just holding my guitar and I just…
— Kina Grannis
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And so I am feeling numb. It's a curious feeling, and I get it all the time. My attention to the world around me disappears,…
— Marya Hornbacher
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Surely all God's people, however serious or savage, great or small, like to play. Whales and elephants, dancing, humming gnats, and invisibly small mischievous microbes-…
— John Muir
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Meditation is not of the body, not of the mind, not of the soul. Meditation simply means your body, your mind, your soul, all functioning…
— Rajneesh
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All musical talent is absent in me, to the point of being unable to play board games that require you to hum a tune while…
— Jeff VanderMeer
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I find humming is very useful.
— Elvis Costello
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I was influenced when I was younger by the cartoon movies that Disney put out, like Cinderella and what not. I watched those movies over…
— Zac Efron
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I'm not one for walking the beaches humming a melody. I love the discipline of sitting in the studio, writing and listening. That is my…
— Unknown Author
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For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Customers are the reason we open our doors every day, and keep the machines humming all night long. Customers determine what we eat, where we…
— Harvey Mackay
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There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres.
— Pythagoras
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My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery - always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why?…
— Virginia Woolf
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Once you learn to discern the voice of Mother Culture humming in the background, telling her story over and over again to the people of…
— Daniel Quinn
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His eyes were eggs of unstable crystal, vibrating with a frequency whose name was rain and the sound of trains, suddenly sprouting a humming forest…
— William Gibson
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It was his subconscious which told him this---that infuriating part of a person's brain which never responds to interrogation, merely gives little meaningful nudges and…
— Douglas Adams
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The humming of my parents' voices from behind my bedroom wall, which throughout my childhood had filled me with a sense of security, had now…
— Jeffrey Eugenides
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I wanted to hear what she was saying. I wanted to smell that burnt midnight again, I wanted to feel that wind. It was a…
— Janet Fitch
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Marvin started his ironical humming again. Zaphod hit him and he shut up.
— Douglas Adams
Who Wrote These Humming Quotes
73 authors contributed a total of 81 Humming Quotes, led by these top contributors: