Composes Quotes

27 quotes by 26 authors

Nor was civil society founded merely to preserve the lives of its members; but that they might live well: for otherwise a state might be… — Aristotle
The superior man sets his person at rest before he moves; he composes his mind before he speaks. — Confucius
Today, when we look at a brain, we see an intricate network of billions of neurons in constant, crackling communication, a chemical labyrinth that senses… — Carl Zimmer
I wait. I compose myself. My self is a thing I must now compose, as one composes a speech. What I must present is a… — Margaret Atwood
We must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle. What I mean is that what composes an event… — Alain Badiou
A lawyer's relationship to justice and wisdom is on a par with a piano tuner's relationship to a concert. He neither composes the music, nor… — Lucille Kallen
Anyone who composes and conducts at the same time is immediately suspect, because he must be faking one or the other. — Esa-Pekka Salonen
I am a poet who composes what life proses, and who proses what life composes. — Khalil Gibran
Each individual composes the music of his own life. If he injures another, he brings disharmony. When his sphere is disturbed, he is disturbed himself,… — Hazrat Inayat Khan
"You cannot believe what you are saying." "Well, no. Hardly ever. But the philosopher is like the poet. The latter composes ideal letters for an… — Umberto Eco
It is what man does not know of God Composes the visible poem of the world. — Richard Eberhart
We worked very hard to make the lyrics suit the music. I can't, like Elton John, for example, compose by lyrics. Elton has a great… — Rick Wright
A photographerâ€™s eye is perpetually evaluating. A photographer can bring coincidence of line simply by moving his head a fraction of a millimetre. He can… — Henri Cartier-Bresson
There's not a good poet I know who has not at the beck and call of his memory a vast quantity of poetry that composes… — Anthony Hecht
I've worked with some of the great cinematographers. So I'm always watching what they do and I'm watching how the director composes his shots, just… — Eric Bana
The historical sense compels a man to write not merely with his own generation in his bones, but with a feeling that the whole of… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
The whole body of the arts and sciences composes one vast machinery for the irritation and development of the human intellect. — Thomas de Quincey
The subject matter... is not that collection of solid, static objects extended in space but the life that is lived in the scene that it… — Wallace Stevens
God, on the other side of my table, composes His book whose smoke envelops me: for the flame of my candle is His pen. — Edmond Jabes
The same substance composes us--the tree overhead, the stone beneath us, the bird, the beast, the star--we are all one, all moving to the same… — P L Travers

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