(22 quotes found)
“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
“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
“Just as we expected, two or more synthesized fish hums played together produce the rhythmic, acoustic beats. And sure enough, the females were able to directly localize one of the humming speakers. Their midbrain neurons form a code of the beats that helps in their calculations to locate the hum of interest from all the rest.”
Andrew H. Bass
“I'm a lot more sartorial than thespian. They come to see me and go out humming the costumes.”
Constance Bennett
“If this management can't make the company hum, someone else will,”
Cynthia Rose
“There's still a death by 1,000 insults on the course. It's there as a background hum, this feeling that the men don't really want them there. Getting rid of bigotry is a slow process.”
Colin Hegarty
“It was kind of a ho-hum game. I don?t think we really played very well at all. We missed a bunch of easy shots and forced a lot of shots.”
David Heard
“The ball was humming on a rope and it got to Horn before I could get to it, bottom line, ... I didn't make a play I felt I should have made. It could be that's what influenced the decision [to bench him]. Maybe that's the case. I don't know. I thought I'd played well to that point, but obviously I hadn't. So the only way I can look at it is that I have to play better.”
Will Allen
“The children will do acrobatics, juggling, ride unicycles, walk on stilts and perform as clowns, The Humming Mosquito.”
David Mason
