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I find humming is very useful. -- Elvis Costello
You always will be singing a song or humming a line or a melody. -- Dennis Brown
For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres. -- Pythagoras
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
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 domain. -- Enya
My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery - always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for? -- Virginia Woolf
My favorite thing to hear from people is, 'I left the theater and couldn't stop thinking about it.' You want your work to have an impact after they leave the theater. It's the equivalent of leaving a musical humming a show tune. -- Marin Ireland
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 almost humming. It was subtle, but you knew what happened. Give me a towel and some blankets any day! -- Angie Dickinson
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 and over when I was younger and the music is ingrained into my head. Nowadays, I'm still humming the tunes. It taught me the fundamentals. -- Zac Efron
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 it. To prepare, I do a lot of aerobic activity. Many times at the gym, people will look at me because I'll be on the treadmill humming. -- Kristin Chenoweth
To us love says humming that the heart's stalled motor has begun working again. -- Vladimir Mayakovsky
My dad says I could sing before I could talk, if that's possible. I was always humming and things like that. -- Miley Cyrus
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 brain is the organ of destiny. It holds within its humming mechanism secrets that will determine the future of the human race. -- Wilder Penfield
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
Ideas come from ordinary, everyday life. And from imagination. And from feelings. And from memories. Memories of dust in my sneakers and humming whitewalls down a hill called Monkey. -- Jerry Spinelli
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
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
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 then sits humming quietly to itself, saying nothing. -- Douglas Adams
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 start humming, then I'll have a song in an hour. -- Kina Grannis
When I'm on a plane, I am the annoying person humming into my phone. Sitting there static with nothing to do, a lot of melodies come to me. So I've written a lot of songs on planes. -- Kiesza
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 heard humming in the night Can be heard humming in the night -- Mari Evans
. . . 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
India is the most competitive manufacturing destination on this planet. If we are able to take advantage of that competitiveness for our domestic markets, this country would be humming with activity; industrial production will grow at 10-11% per year. -- Baba Kalyani
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 in my head, and I start humming a melody, and before you know it, a song is born. -- Nadia Ali
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 to a humming, modern nation - military schools were the track of choice for ambitious young men. -- Kim Young-ha
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 stillness that looks like the world. That connection, that collision, that interfacing, is one of the most astonishing things we can experience. -- Joel Meyerowitz
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
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
We start a lot with melodies and instrumentation and trying to figure out good melodies for verses and choruses. We get to lyrics sometimes second, so we'll start humming a melody, finding something, and see where the music takes you as far as lyrics are and what you want to say and go from there. -- Dave Haywood
I'm always writing something. I've got so much stuff, I don't know what to do with it. Some of it will be Strokes, some of it will be I don't know what - stuff for pop singers. TV themes. I've got a jar stuffed with songs, all these ideas that are just me humming into a recording device. -- Julian Casablancas
When I was eight, my mum found me humming to myself and scribbling on a scrap of paper. When she asked me what I was doing, I got shy. I was writing a Christmas song, and I had never shared my music with anyone before. Reluctantly, I sang it for her... and she loved it. Of course she did - she's my mum. -- Neil Jackson
I have a real aversion to machines. I write with a pen. Then I read it to someone who writes it onto the computer. What are those computer letters made of anyway? Light? Too insubstantial. Paper, you can feel it. A pen. There's a connection. A pen goes exactly at your speed, whereas that machine jumps. And then, that machine is waiting for you, just humming "uh-huh, yes? -- Fran Lebowitz
You have a humming dodo bird," I said stupidly. -- Rick Riordan
But you make me sing like a guitar humming . . . -- Neil Diamond
Bebop was like humming along to Mitch Miller to me. -- Albert Ayler
Marvin was humming ironically because he hated humans so much. -- Douglas Adams
To write a book is for all the world like humming a song. -- Laurence Sterne
Marvin started his ironical humming again. Zaphod hit him and he shut up. -- Douglas Adams
Hope means to keep living amid desperation and to keep humming in the darkness. -- Henri Nouwen
YOU'RE just humming with sexual energy! Is it the fabric? Is it wearing tights? -- Richard Madeley
If sequestered pain made a sound, the atmosphere would be humming all the time. -- Stephen Levine
When she is alone in the rooms I hear her humming to keep herself from thinking. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
There is geometry in the humming of the strings. There is music in the spacing of the spheres." -- Pythagoras
I have no idea how to do what you're supposed to do. I do a little bit of humming. -- Martina Sorbara
I'm in a shallow hole, not filled with the humming orange bubbles of my hallucination but with old, dead leaves. -- Suzanne Collins
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
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
Life set itself to new processions of seed-time and harvest, the skin newly turned to seasonal variations, the very blood humming to new altitudes. -- Mary Hunter Austin
Music gives inspiration...one that sounds windy with humming sound, such can put you in a trance, only to come back and discover some witty ideas. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
Pop is an easy way for evil business people to make a lot of money. But I find myself humming a Christina Aguilera song every once in a while. -- Brandon Boyd
My life is filled with buckets of tears; thousands of people shouting in my ears; the humming and chirping of hundreds of Himalayan birds, which are irresistible to hear. -- Santosh Kalwar
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
Your heart is beating so fast,he said softly, the words barely more than a whisper. I can feel your blood humming under my hand. Are you frightened of me? -- Zoë Marriott
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 on it, humming the tune. -- Barbara Kingsolver
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
Love is both Creator's and Saviour's gospel to mankind; a volume bound in rose-leaves, clasped with violets, and by the beaks of humming-birds printed with peach-juice on the leaves of lilies. -- Herman Melville
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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 become a source of anxiety and panic. -- Jeffrey Eugenides
Not wholly in the busy world, nor quite Beyond it, blooms the garden that I love. News from the humming city comes to it It sound of funeral or of marriage bells. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
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 humming inside, and you feel sort of safe. -- Erich Warsitz
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 such fairy-like loveliness as to mock all description. -- William Henry Hudson
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
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
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 air, the distant, toneless humming which is never silent. -- Knut Hamsun

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