Composed Quotes

456 quotes by 396 authors

A mountain is composed of tiny grains of earth. The ocean is made up of tiny drops of water. Even so, life is but an… — Sivananda
A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance. — Herbert Spencer
A movement is only composed of people moving. To feel its warmth and motion around us is the end as well as the means. — Gloria Steinem
With most of the songs and music that I've composed, irrespective of the myriad videos made, I was always careful not to overly define the… — Serj Tankian
I grew up looking at my father as to how to behave. In watching him I grasped so many things. His own temperament was of… — Sachin Tendulkar
Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes. — Walt Whitman
Yes, but I view Frank's music as fully composed. In other words, the arrangements can work for any idiom such as a rock band or… — Dweezil Zappa
i would like to remind the management that the drinks are watered and the hat-check girl has syphilis and the band is composed of former… — Leonard Cohen
It was evident to him that the world composed and recomposed itself constantly in an endless process of dissatisfaction. — E L Doctorow
If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
The power of the dead is that we think they see us all the time. The dead have a presence. Is there a level of… — Don DeLillo
Every mental act is composed of doubt and belief, but it is belief that is the positive, it is belief that sustains thought and holds… — Soren Kierkegaard
Most contemporary novels are not really "written." They obtain what reality they have largely from an accurate rendering of the noises that human beings currently… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Bryon tilted his head to a very odd angle, half-closed his eyes and composed his features to suggest that he was about to expire from… — Susanna Clarke
For a while he'd tried molding himself into the tragic Romantic hero, brooding and staring clench-jawed off into space as he composed dark verse in… — Christopher Moore
That country where it is always turning late in the year. That country where the hills are fog and the rivers are mist; where noons… — Ray Bradbury
Anyone who doubts that caffeine is a drug should read some of the prose composed under its influence. — Anne Fadiman
Your beloved and your friends were once strangers. Somehow at a particular time, they came from the distance toward your life. Their arrival seemed so… — John O'Donohue
After all, what is happiness? Love, they tell me. But love doesn't bring and never has brought happiness. On the contrary, it's a constant state… — Paulo Coelho
According to some, heroic deaths are admirable things. I've never been convinced by this argument, mainly because, no matter how cool, stylish, composed, unflappable, manly,… — Jonathan Stroud

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