Compose Quotes

234 quotes by 210 authors

I am my own secretary; I dictate, I compose, I copy all myself. — Venerable Bede
All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth - in a word, all those bodies which compose the frame of the world - have… — George Berkeley
It is not hard to compose, but what is fabulously hard is to leave the superfluous notes under the table. — Johannes Brahms
We lie to one another every day, in the sweetest way, often unconsciously. We dress ourselves and compose ourselves in order to present ourselves to… — John le Carre
My dad had been an ardent amateur photographer, and he taught me to compose a photograph from the back to the front, and then populate… — Sam Abell
I would love to compose something for dance before I kick the bucket, and I'm not closed-minded about the dance, or the dance company. — Tori Amos
Given for one instant an intelligence which could comprehend all the forces by which nature is animated and the respective positions of the beings which… — Pierre-Simon Laplace
Good poetry and successful revolution change our lives. And you cannot compose a good poem or wage a revolution without changing consciousness unless you attack… — June Jordan
My sole literary ambition is to write one good novel, then retire to my hut in the desert, assume the lotus position, compose my mind… — Edward Abbey
The universe is an asymmetrical entity. I am inclined to believe that life as it is manifested to us must be a function of the… — Louis Pasteur
I believe that traditional wisdom is incomplete. A composer can have all the talent of Mozart and a passionate desire to succeed, but if he… — Martin Seligman
Amidst the vicissitudes of the earth's surface, species cannot be immortal, but must perish, one after another, like the individuals which compose them. There is… — Charles Lyell
Whether one show one's self a man of genius in science or compose a song, the only point is, whether the thought, the discovery, the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Just as one can compose colors, or forms, so one can compose motions. — Alexander Calder
CREATIVITY is when you are not, because creativity is the fragrance of the creator. It is the presence of God in you. Creativity belongs to… — Rajneesh
For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions or hypotheses about them. Since he cannot in any… — Andreas Osiander
Our natural state of being is in relationship, a tango, a constant state of one influencing the other. Just as the subatomic particles that compose… — Lynne McTaggart
I felt a longing to compose a radical or root poem that would speak to what has its back turned to me. — Robert Bly
As for me, this is my story: I worked and was tortured. You know what it means to compose? No, thank God, you do not!… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
If you like to tell stories and compose sentences, and if you work hard at being good at these things, then you are a writer… — Trenton Lee Stewart

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