Composition Quotes

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The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding. — Joseph Addison
My first serious attempts at writing were made in 1868, and I took up two very different lines of composition; I wrote some short stories… — Annie Besant
At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Any government, of whatever composition, needs to mobilise opinion way beyond its own ranks in order to do the difficult things that it does. — Nick Clegg
When I design buildings, I think of the overall composition, much as the parts of a body would fit together. On top of that, I… — Tadao Ando
To plant is but a part of landscape composition; to co-ordinate is all. — Christopher Tunnard
When a man is made up wholly of the dove, without the least grain of the serpent in his composition, he becomes ridiculous in many… — Joseph Addison
In dance, in composition, in sculpture, the experience is the same: we are more the conduit than the creator of what we express. — Julia Cameron
He seems the incarnation of everything soft and silky and velvety, without a sharp edge in his composition, a dreamer whose philosophy is sleep and… — Hector Hugh Munro
My intention here is to make it clear that not a single cell of my composition, here in regard to The Raven, is found by… — Maurice Ravel
As in Mathematicks, so in Natural Philosophy, the Investigation of difficult Things by the Method of Analysis, ought ever to precede the Method of Composition.… — Isaac Newton
If we consider what science already has enabled men to know-the immensity of space, the fantastic philosophy of the stars, the infinite smallness of the… — Guglielmo Marconi
From a very early period of my life I have derived the highest enjoyment from listening to music, especially to melody, which is to me… — James Nasmyth
In science, probably ninety-nine percent of the knowable has to be discovered. We know only a few streaks about astronomy. We are only beginning to… — Lincoln Steffens
The sciences throw an inexpressible grace over our compositions, even where they are not immediately concerned; as their effects are discernible where we least expect… — Tacitus
The Greeks are wrong to recognize coming into being and perishing; for nothing comes into being nor perishes, but is rather compounded or dissolved from… — Anaxagoras
At the moment I am occupied by an investigation with Kirchoff which does not allow us to sleep. Kirchoff has made a totally unexpected discovery,… — Robert Bunsen
If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it. Or, if proper usage gets in the way, it may have to go. I can't allow what… — Elmore Leonard
Great abilities are not requisite for an Historian; for in historical composition, all the greatest powers of the human mind are quiescent. — Samuel Johnson
Each of us lives within the universe - the prison - of his own brain. Projecting from it are millions of fragile sensory nerve fibers,… — Vernon Benjamin Mountcastle

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