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Letter "H" » Hums
«A melody is not merely something you can hum»
«One needs occasionally to stand aside from the hum and rush of human interests and passions to hear the voices of God.»
Author: Anna Julia Cooper
(Teacher, Writer)
| About:
Humanity,
Interest,
Passion,
Religion
| Keywords:
hum, human voice, humming, Hums, occasionally, rush, The Hum, voices
«?She looked into the distance, and the old terror flamed up for an instant, then sank again. Edna heard her father's voice and her sister Margaret's. She heard the barking of an old dog that was chained to the sycamore tree. The spurs of the cavalry officer clanged as he walked across the porch. There was the hum of bees, and the musky odor of pinks filled the air.?»
«One's condition on marijuana is always existential. One can feel the importance of each moment and how it is changing one. One feels one's being, one becomes aware of the enormous apparatus of nothingness -- the hum of a hi-fi set, the emptiness of a pointless interruption, one becomes aware of the war between each of us, how the nothingness in each of us seeks to attack the being of others, how our being in turn is attacked by the nothingness in others.»
Author: Norman Mailer
| Keywords:
apparatus, attack, attacked, aware, emptiness, enormous, existential, hi-fi, hum, humming, Hums, importance, interruption, interruptions, in turn, marijuana, nothingness, pointless, seeks, The Hum, The War
«There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres.»
Author: Pythagoras
| Keywords:
geometry, humming, Hums, music of the spheres, spacing, Spheres, strings, The Hum
«What conditions of work, what kinds of work, what kinds of management, and what kinds of reward or pay will help human stature to grow healthy, to its fuller and fullest stature ? Classic economic theory, based as it is on an inadequate theory of hum»
Author: Abraham Maslow
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| About:
Economics,
Management,
Reward,
Work
| Keywords:
classic, economic theory, fuller, fullers, fullest, hum, humming, Hums, inadequate, management, stature, theory-based, theory of, The Hum
«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?»
«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.»
«For most of human history we have searched for our place in the cosmos. Who are we? What are we? We find that we inhabit an insignificant planet of a hum-drum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are»
Author: Dr. Carl Sagan
(Astronomer, Scientist, Writer)
| About:
Research
| Keywords:
cosmos, drum, galaxies, galaxy, hum, Human history, humming, Hums, inhabit, insignificant, searched, the Galaxy, The Hum, tuck, tucked
«Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the old well-known air through innumerable variations.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Nature
| Keywords:
Hums, innumerable, repetition, The Variations, variation, variations, well known
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