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One time I nearly experienced failure was when I was acting in 'Hum Aapke Hain Kaun' in 1994. One day, I woke up and found that part of my face was paralysed. -- Anupam Kher
Embrace the faff. Stare out of the window. Bend paperclips. Stand in the middle of the room trying to remember what you came downstairs for. Pace. Drum your fingertips. Move papers around. Hum. Look at the garden. -- Tom Hodgkinson
Street sign: Ho Hum Road & Easy Street In retirement, I look for days off from my days off. -- Mason Cooley
A melody is not merely something you can hum. -- Aaron Copland
There's something so soothing about the hum of Grand Central Station. -- Rachel Nichols
If they can't hum it after we play it, it's not for us. -- Lawrence Welk
I write my lyrics into the computer and I hum my music into the dictaphone. -- Sebastian Bach
With my personal preparation at the piano, I can afford to hum at half voice. -- Placido Domingo
I could hum Beatles songs before I could talk - not very well, but sort of. -- Taylor Momsen
Sometimes when people can't speak English, they hum the melody instead of singing along. Having 20,000 people humming your song is incredible. -- Nikki Sixx
The biggest thrill you can have is to tell people one of your songs, and have them be able to hum it. -- Marvin Hamlisch
One needs occasionally to stand aside from the hum and rush of human interests and passions to hear the voices of God. -- Anna Julia Cooper
I really don't have an ear for pitch. I can't sing at all, I can't hum melodies and I can't write riffs. -- Patrick Carney
When you're on stage you have a very strange knowledge of what the audience is. It isn't exactly a sound - it's a hum, like the streets. -- Keith Jarrett
Right after something happens to me, the first thing I'll do is go write when those feelings are really, really fresh. I'll hum a tune into my phone sometimes. -- Troye Sivan
When I'm sitting in the church alone, I can hear singing of the old people. I can hear their singing and I can hear their praying, and sometimes I hum one of their songs. -- Ernest Gaines
I heard stories from my mother's mother who was an American Indian. She was spiritual, although she did not go to church, but she had the hum. She used to tell me stories of the rivers. -- Tina Turner
When I feel comfortable, I just like to sing and hum, and I don't even know I'm doing it. But sometimes someone will come over to me like, 'I love that song you were singing, but it's distracting.' -- Daisy Ridley
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You can't even imagine how it felt to have a cassette that you could take with you with a microphone so you could put down an idea and not have to hum it a million times to remember what it was. -- Robert Plant
For me, anything can be music! I can get huge enjoyment and be moved totally by the purity and perfection of some Renaissance polyphony, but equally I can feel emotion in the expectant hum of a big old guitar amp just before the strings are hit. -- Steven Price
I get like a melody that comes up and I try to write it down or record it. Hum it into a tape recorder or write it down on some manuscript paper. It could happen at any time, on the road or off the road, but mostly, you know, at home. -- Paul Taylor
You can be a rapper born and raised in go-go music, violence, drugs, crack, Reagonomics, and still, if you hear 'Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go,' you're going to find a way to hum along. Guilty pleasures? It don't matter. Sue me - I like the song. To dance to it is another matter. -- Wale
In the 1920s, a generation before the coming of solid-state electronics, one could look at the circuits and see how the electron stream flowed. Radios had valves, as though electricity were a fluid to be diverted by plumbing. With the click of the knob came a significant hiss and hum, just at the edge of audibility. -- James Gleick
By five or six, when the heels start to hurt, I kick off my shoes and walk bare feet. But that's not a big deal. Nobody else is at the office at that time, and as for singing loudly, I don't sing loudly. I might hum a tune at times when I am thinking about something, but that's all fine. -- Indra Nooyi
Parenting is the greatest of hum-a-few-bars-and-I'll-fake-it skills. -- Stephen King
Hear ye not the hum Of mighty workings? -- John Keats
That undefined and mingled hum, Voice of the desert never dumb! -- James Hogg
Tower'd cities please us then, And the busy hum of men. -- John Milton
We have to go on until Islam is made as ho-hum as Catholicism. -- Charb
My book should smell of pines and resound with the hum of insects. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Make your melodies simple enough so that the average person can hum them. -- Tom T. Hall
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The sound of pencils taking notes provided a low scrape and hum, almost like radio interference. -- Sara Sheridan
What I felt then I feel now: the inexorable, unchanging interior hum of doubt and hope. -- Cynthia Ozick
Opened Christmas cards hum to me the hymn of love and teach me the sacrament of correspondence. -- Edward M Hays
The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs thro' the arched roof in words deceiving. -- John Milton
The days blur into one, and the backs of my eyes hum with things I've never done. -- Radical Face
You put out a funny podcast, you talk about bak chor mee. I will say mee siam mai hum. -- Lee Hsien Loong
When you're lecturing teenagers and they begin to hum and leave the room, you can sense there is hostility. -- Erma Bombeck
Here come the hum the golden bees Underneath full blossomed trees, At once with glowing fruit and flowers crowned. -- James Russell Lowell
Lay down the song you strum, And rest yourself 'neath the strength of strings No voice can hope to hum. -- Bob Dylan
Hawthorn, white and odorous with blossom, framing the quiet fields, and swaying flowers and grasses, and the hum of bees. -- F. S Flint
God sings, we hum along, and there are many melodies, but it's all one song - one same, wonderful, human song. -- Mitch Albom
We find we breathe again, and hear the surgeon hum. Outside, in the street, a car starts up. The heart regularly Thunders. -- James Kirkup
If one wants to be an ox one can easily turn one's back on hum suffering and look after one's own skin. -- Karl Marx
Constellations of thought hard wired to the universal energies between us resonate as a familiar hum that gently vibrates to caress my soul. -- Truth Devour
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I saw hum run for thr first time at Wednesday's trining session. Until then, I wasn't aware Usain Bolt was my running coach -- Miranda Kenneally
Bees sip honey from flowers and hum their thanks when they leave. The gaudy butterfly is sure that the flowers owe thanks to him. -- Rabindranath Tagore
The loveliest tune imaginable becomes vulgar and insupportable as soon as the public begins to hum it and the hurdy-gurdies make it their own. -- Joris-Karl Huysmans
When the wheel was accepted as part of the national flag, it was surely implied that the spinning wheel would hum in every household. -- Mahatma Gandhi
But the rhythm of the mix tape is the rhythm of romance, the analog hum of a physical connection between two sloppy, human bodies. -- Rob Sheffield
So whatever else has happened, I am figgerin this: I can always look back an say, at least I ain't led no hum-drum life. -- Winston Groom
Silent Summer - a never-ending heat wave, devoid of birdsong, insect hum, and all the weird and wonderful living noises that subconsciously keep us company. -- Mark Lynas
Rin slept inside the oak's thought. Its own memories of weather and growth continued to hum, and like a pond, its stillness reflected back herself. -- Shannon Hale
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
All these sounds, the crowing of cocks, the baying of dogs, and the hum of insects at noon, are the evidence of nature's health orsound state. -- Henry David Thoreau
I generally write music first and then hum out the vocal. Sometimes I'll take a phrase that I use as a placeholder and just write around that. -- Bucky Pope
Mine be a cot beside the hill; A bee-hive's hum shall soothe my ear; A willowy brook, that turns a mill, With many a fall shall linger near. -- Samuel Rogers
I live not in myself, but I become Portion of that around me: and to me High mountains are a feeling, but the hum of human cities torture. -- Lord Byron
The bells they sound on Bredon, And still the steeples hum. "Come all to church, good people"- Oh, noisy bells, be dumb; I hear you, I will come. -- A. E. Housman
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 the same old tune. -- Robert McKee
Classical music gradually lost popularity because it is too complicated: you need twenty-five or thirty skilled musicians just to hum it properly. So people began to develop regular music. -- Dave Barry
Give us Direction; the best of goodwill; Put us in touch with fair winds. Sing to us softly, hum the evening's song. Tell us what the blacksmith has done for you. -- Jethro Tull
She looked at him, watched hum toss the remote on the table and say," So maybe I'm going to handcuff myself to you the next time you decide to take a stroll. -- Ally Carter
When we sing the blues, we're singin' out our hearts, we're singing out our feelings. Maybe we're hurt and just can't answer back, then we sing or maybe even hum the blues. -- Zora Neale Hurston
Moment by moment throughout our lifetime, our brains hum with the work of making meaning: weaving together many thousands of threads of information into all manner of thoughts, feelings, memories, and ideas. -- Daniel Tammet
It can be exhausting eating a meal cooked by a man. With a woman, it's, Ho hum, pass the beans. A guy, you have to act like he just built the Taj Mahal. -- Deb Caletti
Ah? A small aversion to menial labor?" The doctor cocked an eyebrow. "Understandable, but misplaced. One should treasure those hum-drum tasks that keep the body occupied but leave the mind and heart unfettered. -- Tad Williams
I hum some secret place into being, thinking of this other me, the one that only I can see, a girl called She, who is not We, a girl who I will never be. -- Lori Lansens
Kissing just like she laughs: honest, heartfelt and heartful, she pulls me down as I lift her up , and the hum she gives when my tongue finds hers makes every one of my nerves fire. -- Sarah Elizabeth

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