Composed Quotes

Fundamentally, American society is composed of individuals who don't go out of their way to do each other favours.

Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.

Above these universal themes 'Truth Will Set U Free' is also a song composed for those who were born gay. I am a straight man so I do not profess to understand or know what a LGBT person experiences but I do recognize injustice when I see it.

Our army is composed of the scum of the earth - the mere scum of the earth.

Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often.

Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we're going to show.

Any committee that is the slightest use is composed of people who are too busy to want to sit on it for a second longer than they have to.

Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of passion. It can be taken only with a mind purified and composed and with God as witness.

The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend.

Very rarely do you have a perfect race, and it's about overcoming your mistakes in the race and remaining composed.

The three-pound organ in your skull - with its pink consistency of Jell-o - is an alien kind of computational material. It is composed of miniaturized, self-configuring parts, and it vastly outstrips anything we've dreamt of building.

There are particular images that I like. Allegro is composed of a series of still life photographs that has been put to speed. There is so much care that has gone into the composition of the cinematography.

Know what the old masters did. Know how they composed their pictures, but do not fall into the conventions they established. These conventions were right for them, and they are wonderful. They made their language. You make yours. All the past can help you.

Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.

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 endless series of little details, actions, speeches, and thoughts. And the consequences whether good or bad of even the least of them are far-reaching.

I recently did a piece for the Boston Pops and John Williams, and I hope that it's as well a composed piece as I've ever done for any other medium or occasion.

Society is composed of two great classes those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.

Although Freud said happiness is composed of love and work, reality often forces us to choose love or work.

These mountains appear to be almost entirely composed of stratas of rock of various colours (mostly red) and are partially covered with a dwarfish growth of pine and cedar, which are the only species of timber to be seen.

If human beings are fundamentally good, no government is necessary; if they are fundamentally bad, any government, being composed of human beings, would be bad also.

Sounds like the blues are composed of feeling, finesse, and fear.

When my opera Plump Jack was performed in 1989, my first piano teacher sent me something that I'd composed when I was four. I remember I played it, and it still sounded like me. I'm the same composer I was then.

Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.

This truth of the gathering together of God's children is in Scripture seen realised in various localities, and in each central locality the Christians resident therein composed but one body: Scripture is perfectly clear on that head.

A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country.

The snow itself is lonely or, if you prefer, self-sufficient. There is no other time when the whole world seems composed of one thing and one thing only.

I believe so, but at first he must know. He must know in which spirit Beethoven has composed this piece. He must try to study that. And he must find out in which station of life of Beethoven he did.

Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.