Humming Quotations

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.

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.

Sometimes when people can't speak English, they hum the melody instead of singing along. Having 20,000 people humming your song is incredible.

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.

My dad says I could sing before I could talk, if that's possible. I was always humming and things like that.

Now our aging landscape has a new look and the school is humming with excitement.

News from the humming city comes to it/ In sound of funeral or of marriage bells.

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.

I have a lot of friends who will warm up for an hour before they play. I feel that almost tires me. I just try to stay out of the cold too long and do a lot of humming and get up there and do it. I don't do a lot of warming up, but I do a lot of cooling down, like eating a slice of pizza.

He heard us hum maybe three notes and he started humming the whole song. Why he knows it, why people know it, I couldn't tell you. But they really do.

I'm a lot more sartorial than thespian. They come to see me and go out humming the costumes.

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.

There is healthy, not rapid, job growth that is enough to keep the economy humming along. That strong labor market has potentially inflationary pressures. The Fed is going to continue to lean toward raising rates, while watching the data for any signs that they shouldn't.

keeps the Fed tightening engine humming along and does raise the possibility that a more aggressive posture could be adopted somewhere down the line if the inflation indicators continue to surprise to the upside.

Mary Pat pitched one heck of a game. She was out there humming the ball, hitting her spots and hitting the corners. Our defense just had a little mental lapse there in the second inning. We're going to get better at it. It's still early in the season and we're not quite where we want to be yet. But, we're going to get there.

Our little coffee shop is humming on Sunday mornings. It's a huge hit.

I was told by Steve Tobias, the chief operating officer, that one day recently they had no trains being held between Philadelphia and Chicago. That's the first time that's happened since June 1, ... The only thing we have to worry about right now is weather. If the snow doesn't come early, this thing could be humming in few weeks.

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.

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.

Aside from perhaps the famous scream at the end of door No. 5, I couldn't tell you how that music sounds. You will not go home humming the tunes. But I think you go away from the theatre changed, haunted by the imagery.

Unconscious. Mary Pat wanted to win this game so bad, it was written all over her face. Every inning, every pitch, she was humming the ball in there and hitting her spots. She was in command, but she was psyched up to play and she showed such emotion. You could tell, every batter, she was fired up. It was awesome.

The results were in line. The chemicals cycle is humming right now. The high dividend is not surprising, seeing the growth in profit.

I like the dollar higher. There's relatively sub-par growth out of Europe, and the U.S. is humming along.

The core (inflation measure), while it's up, still looks very contained. This just keeps the Federal Reserve interest rate hike engine humming along after June 30.

Their running game can be tough to stop. So far they haven't been humming like it normally is, and you just have to keep them in that mode. They're very patient and persistent and keep doing it.

In the short run, you're going to start seeing a growing demand for building material products, which are already under significant demand with the home building industry humming along so much. It means that there will be even more pressure on prices in that area.

He said the pleasantest manner of spending a hot July day was lying from morning till evening on a bank of heath in the middle of the moors, with the bees humming dreamily about among the bloom, and the larks singing high up overhead, and the blue sky and bright sun shining steadily and cloudlessly.

These numbers tell you that the economy is humming right along through the holiday season. There will be no reason for the Fed to stop hiking interest rates, which is very supportive of the U.S. economy and the dollar.

A professional designer can help you be hospitable with wildlife. For example, attracting butterflies or humming birds, or detracting species like deer.

Ahead of the storm clouds, the American job market was humming along nicely, a result that says little about where things will stand as the recent spike in energy prices begins to bite,

The children will do acrobatics, juggling, ride unicycles, walk on stilts and perform as clowns, The Humming Mosquito.

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.

It's something we've been working on and preparing for. I'm not too sure how good we'll be at it, but we got the words down at least. I'm not an American Idol contender, I'll be humming along with everyone else.

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

I find humming is very useful.

But you make me sing like a guitar humming . . .

The mark of a good musical is songs that leave the audience humming as they leave the theater, and this certainly has that.

You've got to perform in a role hundreds of times. In keeping it fresh one can become a large, madly humming, demented refrigerator.

And if I was humming "Happy Birthday" and smiling stupidly as I fled for my life—well, that was nobody's business, was it?

To us love says humming that the heart's stalled motor has begun working again.

Marvin was humming ironically because he hated humans so much.

Marvin started his ironical humming again. Zaphod hit him and he shut up.