Humming Quotes

81 Humming quotes by 73 unique authors

I was unfair to him, of course, but where would I have been without unfairness? In thrall, in harness. Young women need unfairness, it's one… — Margaret Atwood
[Short Talk on Sylvia Plath] Did you see her mother on television? She said plain, burned things. She said I thought it an excellent poem… — Anne Carson
For the longest time after that, neither of us said anything. I was unaccustomed to his silence, but I didn't mind it. I knew near… — Gabrielle Zevin
Suppose within each book there is another book, and within every letter on every page another volume constantly unfolding; but these volumes take no space… — Hilary Mantel
I’m in a shallow hole, not filled with the humming orange bubbles of my hallucination but with old, dead leaves. — Suzanne Collins
Composer” is a word which here means “a person who sits in a room, muttering and humming and figuring out what notes the orchestra is… — Daniel Handler
Writers. For some reason, a lot of you reject what you hear and see in your heads. If you go too long ignoring it, it… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
One day a hummingbird flew in-- It fluttered against the window til I got it down where I could reach it with an open umbrella--… — Georgia O'Keeffe
Love taught me to die with dignity that I might come forth anew in splendor. Born once of flesh, then again of fire, I was… — Aberjhani
Take from my palms, to soothe your heart, a little honey, a little sun, in obedience to Persephone's bees. You can't untie a boat that… — Osip Mandelstam
I know this one pusher walks around humming a tune and everybody he passes takes it up. He is so grey and spectral and anonymous… — William S. Burroughs
And if I was humming "Happy Birthday" and smiling stupidly as I fled for my life—well, that was nobody's business, was it? — Rick Riordan
In the long run, most of us spend about fifteen minutes total in the entanglements of passion, and the rest of our days looking back… — Barbara Kingsolver
You have a humming dodo bird," I said stupidly. — Rick Riordan
I don’t know [why we're here]. People sometimes say to me, ‘Why don’t you admit that the humming bird, the butterfly, the Bird of Paradise… — David Attenborough
A kiss, when all is told, what is it? An oath taken a little closer, a promise more exact. A wish that longs to be… — Edmond Rostand
We are all susceptible to the pull of viral ideas. Like mass hysteria. Or a tune that gets into your head that you keep humming… — Neal Stephenson
Marvin was humming ironically because he hated humans so much. — Douglas Adams
And the great spirit of darkness spread a shroud over me...everything was silent-everything. But upon the heights soughed the everlasting song, the voice of the… — Knut Hamsun
A pair of Blue Noses on the next bench glared their disapproval at Evie’s knee-length dress. Evie decided to give them a real show. She… — Libba Bray
The stillness of the calm is awful. His voice begins to grow strange and portentous. He feels it in him like something swallowed too big… — Herman Melville
I wonder what kinds of songs Preston's father sang to him." Zach raised his eyebrows. "I wonder if he's in a cell humming them to… — Ally Carter
From the early 1960s to the mid-1980s - the era of military dictatorship when South Korea was rebuilding itself from a postwar economic basket case… — Kim Young-ha
Personal relationships are usually my biggest inspirations for writing my songs. The best way for me to write a song is to visualise the story… — Nadia Ali
My dad says I could sing before I could talk, if that's possible. I was always humming and things like that. — Miley Cyrus

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