Humming Quotes

• [Short Talk on Sylvia Plath] Did you see her mother on television? She said plain, burned things. She said I thought it an excellent poem but it hurt me. She did not say jungle fear. She did not say jungle hatred wild jungle weeping chop it back chop it. She said self-government she said end of the road. She did not say humming in the middle of the air what you came for chop.

  

  Anne Carson
  • She
  • Mother
  • Fear

• I know this one pusher walks around humming a tune and everybody he passes takes it up. He is so grey and spectral and anonymous they don't see him and think it is their own mind humming the tune.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Thinking
  • Mind
  • Grey

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

  

  Neil Diamond
  • Guitar
  • Humming

• 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
  • Found
  • Uncomfortable
  • Rays

• If you were to sit me down in a classroom, with fluorescent lights humming and some woman trying to teach me Italian, there's no way. But scream goes to Italy, we stay in a squat, and the only way you can ask someone where to take a piss is to do it in Italian. So I learned Italian.

  

  Dave Grohl Nirvana
  • Teach
  • Classroom
  • Italy

• Suppose within each book there is another book, and within every letter on every page another volume constantly unfolding; but these volumes take no space on the desk. Suppose knowledge could be reduced to a quintessence, held within a picture, a sign, held within a place which is no place. Suppose the human skull were to become capacious, spaces opening inside it, humming chambers like beehives.

  

  Hilary Mantel
  • Book
  • Humans
  • Letters

• Bebop was like humming along to Mitch Miller to me.

  

  Albert Ayler
  • Along
  • Humming

• 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
  • Enormous
  • Aviation
  • Propeller