“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
“They are the scourge of American politics. They are unaccountable and play by a different set of rules.”
Warren Tompkins
“I just think they feel so comfortable and so unaccountable that they don't have to listen. I think they're sort of in a bubble. They don't understand what's going on in the community.”
Duane Christensen
“A melody is not merely something you can hum”
Aaron Copland
“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
“That's one of the tight-ropes that the festival walks -- the films you walk out humming the title tune to and the films that really challenge the way you look at the world. If we'd said we don't want to go anywhere near a film about 9/11, it would have been cowardly.”
Peter Scarlet
“I think it's a bit ho-hum. It's not a bad number, but if you open stores at 5 in the morning and give away free breakfasts and 4.3% is all you can do, in the most aggressive [day-after-Thanksgiving] campaign ever mounted by anyone, I think it says that the consumer doesn't have the money to spend.”
Mark Husson