Quotes of Hum - somelinesforyou

“ I find humming is very useful. ”

- Elvis Costello

“ Sexuality is the lyricism of the masses. ”

- Charles Baudelaire

“ If you're too busy to help those around you succeed, you're too busy. ”

- Unknown

“ If you're too busy to help those around you succeed, you're too busy. ”

- Unknown

“ A bee is never as busy as it seems; it's just that it can't buzz any slower. ”

- Kin Hubbard

“ The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground. ”

- Thomas Overbury

“ Poetry and Hums aren't things which you get, they're things which get you. And all you can do is go where they can find you. ”

- Winnie The Pooh

“ 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

“ Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the old well-known air through innumerable variations. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ 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

“ 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 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

“ At home I'm relaxed. I may be in the yard talking to neighbors, or riding my bike, or fishing, making up the bed-and things just come to me. I'll hum a melody, and if it feels real good, I'll play it on the piano and put it on tape, and then develop it later… ”

- Anita Baker

“ When people generally are aware of a problem, it can be said to have entered the public consciousness. When people get on their hind legs and holler, the problem has not only entered the public consciousness — it has also become a part of the public conscience… ”

- Hubert H. Humphrey

“ Those who marry God can become domesticated too — it's just as hum-drum a marriage as all the others. The word "Love" means a formal touch of the lips as in the ceremony of the Mass, and "Ave Maria " like "dearest" is a phrase to open a letter… ”

- Graham Greene
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