Composed Quotes

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.

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

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.

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 painting that is well composed is half finished.

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.

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

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.

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.

Forever is composed of nows.

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.

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.

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

The other classes of which society was composed were, first, freemen, owners of small portions of land, independent, though they sometimes voluntarily became the vassals of their more opulent neighbors, whose power was necessary for their protection.

Remember likewise there are persons who love fewer words, an inoffensive sort of people, and who deserve some regard, though of too still and composed tempers for you.

I must say I've always composed music from the point of view of the performers.

The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished.

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.

The dangers which threaten us are twofold: First, from the Confederate forces, composed of men whose earnest convictions and reckless bravery it is idle to deny.

The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.

I was never a quick writer, but composed with great care and efforts.

Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight, they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand the fire of one cannon ball, than a volley composed of such a shower of bullets.