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With my personal preparation at the piano, I can afford to hum at half voice.

- Plácido Domingo

If they can`t hum it after we play it, it`s not for us.

- Lawrence Welk

I felt someone was revealing hard truths about themselves, revealing uneasy things about themselves, which I always find really generous, ... It makes my life easier when people say, `Hey! I`m not perfect,` or, `Hey! I`ve got flaws.` And he did it with such a sense of humor and such compassion for all those flaws, he was making us all a cushion to trip over and fall on, you know?

- Mike Mills

(Terrell Owens clashed with Jeff Garcia and now Donovan McNabb. Randy Moss irked Daunte Culpepper and earned a trip out of town. And all the while, in Indianapolis, Peyton Manning and Marvin Harrison hum along as the NFL`s best marriage. With four more touchdown connections, the Colts duo will surpass the 49ers` Steve Young and Jerry Rice as the most prolific quarterback-receiver tandem in history. (Young and Rice hooked up for 85 touchdowns.) With 129 more passing yards, Manning and Harrison will top the Buffalo Bills` Jim Kelly and Andre Reed for the most yards (9,538) between thrower and catcher. Former 49ers Coach Bill Walsh called Manning and Harrison) brilliant performers ... He could be the best offensive coordinator in the league. He is truly an outstanding coach.

- Tom Moore

We`re developing two engines. These are state-of-the-art, world-class, world-beating engines. These are not just sort of ho-hum engines.

- Elon Musk

I get like a melody that comes up and I try to write it down or record it. Hum it into a tape recorder or write it down on some manuscript paper. It could happen at any time, on the road or off the road, but mostly, you know, at home.

- Paul Taylor

One needs occasionally to stand aside from the hum and rush of human interests and passions to hear the voices of God.

- Akira Takei

There was a certain hum that would be generated by the book when I was writing well; I`d stop working the instant that hum snapped off.

- Albert Guerard

When I look on you a moment, then I can speak no more, but my tongue falls silent, and at once a delicate flame courses beneath my skin, and with my eyes I see nothing, and my ears hum, and a wet sweat bathes me, and a trembling seizes me all over

- Andy Ritchie

Cities are like a beehive in a lot of ways and there`s a hum to the city. You can tell what`s happening with the hive by the hum,

- Anne Borchers

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

- Dr. Carl Sagan

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

- Abraham Maslow