Humming Quotes - Page 4

• 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 they don't see him and think it is their own mind humming the tune.

  William S. Burroughs

  Thinking, Mind, Tunes

  William S. Burroughs (2007). “Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader”, p.151, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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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 live, whether we stay in business.

  Harvey Mackay

  Night, Doors, Long

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• I always have melodies flowing in my head - whether I'm just at home, at the mall, at a restaurant or wherever. I'm always humming along to the random melodies that form in my head.

  Manika

  Home, Form, Restaurants

  Source: www.kidzworld.com

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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 of hair-fine glass spines.

  William Gibson

  Rain, Eye, Glasses

  William Gibson (2000). “Neuromancer”, p.220, Penguin

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• Sometimes I just start humming something, find a melody I like a lot, and if it sticks around for a couple days, a few words will lock themselves into place. I might just get the first line. Then words just keep falling into the syllables. The choruses kind of write themselves and verses I have to work at a little bit.

  Jack Johnson

  Couple, Fall, Writing

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• I can hear the library humming in the night,
  a choir of authors murmuring inside their books
  along the unlit, alphabetical shelves,
  Giovanni Pontano next to Pope, Dumas next to his son,
  each one stitched into his own private coat,
  together forming a low, gigantic chord of language.

  Billy Collins

  Book, Son, Night

  Billy Collins (2011). “Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems”, p.14, Random House

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• But you make me sing like a guitar humming . . .

  Neil Diamond

  Guitar

  Song: Cracklin' Rosie, Album: Tap Root Manuscript, 1970

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• . . . hummings and clickings could be heard-the sounds attendant to the flow of electrons, now augmenting one maze of electromagnetic crises to a condition that was translatable from electrical qualities and quantities to a high grade of truth.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Truth, Quality, Flow

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Player Piano”, p.118, Dial Press

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• When she is alone in the rooms I hear her humming to keep herself from thinking.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Thinking, Rooms, Chaos

  Jean-Paul Sartre (2013). “Nausea”, p.23, New Directions Publishing

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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

  Rays, Drs, Found

  Thomas Harris (2009). “Red Dragon”, p.11, Penguin

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• I loved a woman whose beauty Like the moon moved all the humming heavens to music till the stars with their tiny teeth burst into song and I fell on the ground before her while the sky hardened and she laughed and turned me down softly, I was so young.

  Peter Meinke

  Song, Stars, Moon

  Peter Meinke (1991). “Liquid paper: new and selected poems”, Univ of Pittsburgh Pr

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• The summer day is closed - the sun is set:
  Well they have done their office, those bright hours,
  The latest of whose train goes softly out
  In the red west. The green blade of the ground
  Has risen, and herds have cropped it; the young twig
  Has spread its plaited tissues to the sun;
  Flowers of the garden and the waste have blown
  And withered; seeds have fallen upon the soil,
  From bursting cells, and in their graves await
  Their resurrection. Insects from the pools
  Have filled the air awhile with humming wings,
  That now are still for ever; painted moths
  Have wandered the blue sky, and died again

  William C. Bryant

  Summer, Flower, Garden

  William Cullen Bryant, “From: An Evening Revery”

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• I still believe that capitalism is too harsh and I believe that, even within that, there is a lot of satisfaction and beauty if you happen to be one of the lucky ones, although that doesn't eradicate the reality of the suffering. It's all true at once, kind of humming and sublime.

  George Saunders

  Believe, Reality, Sublime

  "On "Tenth of December": An Interview With George Saunders" by Deborah Treisman, www.newyorker.com. January 24, 2013.

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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 your culture, you’ll never stop being conscious of it. Wherever you go for the rest of your life, you’ll be tempted to say to the people around you, “how can you listen to this stuff and not recognize it for what it is?

  Daniel Quinn

  Life, Mother, Learning

  Daniel Quinn (2009). “Ishmael: A Novel”, p.37, Bantam

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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

  Inspirational, Unseen, Consciousness

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• 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 reborn a third time to the sound of my name humming haikus in heaven’s mouth.

  Aberjhani

  Names, Fire, Heaven

  Aberjhani (2010). “The River of Winged Dreams”, p.47, Lulu.com

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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

  Future, Destiny, Anatomy And Physiology

  Wilder Penfield (1963). “The second career: with other essays and addresses”

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• Bring awareness to the many subtle sounds of nature - The rustling of leaves in the wind, Raindrops falling, The humming of an insect, The first birdsong at dawn.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Fall, Wind, Firsts

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.79, New World Library

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• You have a humming dodo bird," I said stupidly.

  Rick Riordan

  Bird, Dodo Bird, Said

  Rick Riordan (2009). “Percy Jackson and the Battle of the Labyrinth”, p.225, Penguin UK

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• If sequestered pain made a sound, the atmosphere would be humming all the time.

  Stephen Levine

  Inspirational, Pain, Atmosphere

  Stephen Levine (2005). “Unattended Sorrow: Recovering from Loss and Reviving the Heart”, p.6, Rodale

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• We sometimes observe that spoiled children contract a habit of annoying quite wantonly those who have charge of them, and seem tomeasure their own sense of well-being, not by what they do, but by the degree of reaction they can cause. It is vain to get rid of them by not minding them: if purring and humming is not noticed, they squeal and screech; then if you chide and console them, they find the experiment succeeds, and they begin again. The child will sit in your arms contented if you do nothing. If you take a book and read, he commences hostile operations.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Children, Book, Arms

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2955, Delphi Classics

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• A superhero's catchphrase should be like a really memorable advertising slogan. It sticks in your head and you can't stop humming it. And let's face it, superheroes are just really selling themselves as products.

  Stan Lee

  Memorable, Superhero, Faces

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• If a poem is written well, it was written with the poet's voice and for a voice. Reading a poem silently instead of saying a poem is like the difference between staring at sheet music and actually humming or playing the music on an instrument.

  Robert Pinsky

  Reading, Voice, Differences

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• Melody always comes to me first before words - cadence and melody. When you're humming the melody and it's incredible and words start coming out it can build into something special.

  Yelawolf

  Special, Firsts, Cadence

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• We live in a world with "free" content, and this freedom is not an imperfection. We listen to the radio without paying for the songs we hear; we hear friends humming tunes that they have not licensed. We tell jokes that reference movie plots without the permission of the directors. We read our children books, borrowed from a library, without paying the original copyright holder for the performance rights.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Song, Children, Book

  "May the Source Be With You". www.wired.com. December 21, 2001.

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