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We compose our life in stories we tell ourselves
— John Geddes
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If you can write, paint, or compose without fear, pain, tears or questions, then you are either very blessed or very bland.
— Duane Hewitt
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 made thing, not something born
— Margaret Atwood
Vortices of pure energy can exist and, if my theories are right, can compose the bodily form of an intelligent species.
— Lord Kelvin
I find it very difficult to compose when I'm not playing.
— Chuck Mangione
To compose is to remember music that has never been written.
— Robert Schumann
I am never happier than when I have something to compose, for that, after all, is my sole delight and passion
— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
I'll probably paint on this piano after I compose, for that will inspire me to make more awesome works.
— Shawn Lukas
I don't compose. I assemble materials.
— Aaron Copland
The way to compose for me is to have lots of time.
— Eberhard Weber
I say things that contradict each other, that are in real tension with each other, that compose me, that make me live, and that will make me die.
— Jacques Derrida
A man is not necessarily a master because he happened to compose two or three centuries ago. Let us beware of the worship of mere antiquity.
— Ignacy Jan Paderewski
Remember not to complain about the matter but construct, compose, compass and conquer the matter
— Ikechukwu Joseph
The church can have light only as it is full of the Spirit, and it can be full only as the members that compose it are filled individually.
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
It is not hard to compose, but what is fabulously hard is to leave the superfluous notes under the table.
— Johannes Brahms
I do not always find the streets interesting, so I wait until I see picturesque groups and those that compose well in relation to the whole.
— Childe Hassam
Even in front of nature one must compose.
— Edgar Degas
I don't choose what I compose. It chooses me.
— Gustav Mahler
Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.
— Walter Lippmann
The very essence of democracy is that every person represents all the varied interests which compose the nation.
— Mahatma Gandhi
If a chap can't compose an epic poem while he's weaving tapestry, he had better shut up, he'll never do any good at all.
— William Morris
If I wish to compose or write or pray or preach well, I must be angry. Then all the blood in my veins is stirred, and my understanding is sharpened.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Try not to react merely in the moment. Pull back from the situation. Take a wider view. Compose yourself.
— Epictetus
Our species is one, and each of the individuals who compose it are entitled to equal moral consideration.
— Michael Ignatieff
You are the conductor of your own attitude! Nobody else can compose your thoughts for you.
— Lee J. Colan
We spend our lives on a thin slice between the unimaginably small scales of the atoms that compose us and the infinitely large scales of galaxies.
— David Eagleman
Slavery can only be abolished by raising the character of the people who compose the nation; and that can be done only by showing them a higher one.
— Maria Weston Chapman
With automatic spell checkers running unleashed over what we compose, our era is that of correctly spelled typos.
— Neil DeGrasse Tyson
The U.S. will ignore the opinion of the Iraqi people and it will compose the new government according to its own desires.
— Muqtada Al Sadr
I can't write, I can't paint, I don't compose.
— Richard Attenborough
Elegantly accomplished," said Nehemiah Trot. "I shall compose an Ode. Would you like to stay and listen?
— Neil Gaiman
I compose my pieces with a formula that I created myself.
— Thelonious Monk
For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study.
— Nicolaus Copernicus
I am my own secretary; I dictate, I compose, I copy all myself.
— Venerable Bede
If they cut off both hands, I will compose music anyway holding the pen in my teeth.
— Dmitri Shostakovich
It may be observed of good writing, as of good blood, that it is much easier to say what it is composed of than to compose it.
— Charles Caleb Colton
If I still had the space, charcoal, and available walls, I could compose a great work about forgetting:
a general theory of oblivion. — Jose Eduardo Agualusa
Heaven resonates when one sings wholeheartedly.
— Toba Beta
Time did not compose her.
— Jane Austen
Books are acts of composition: you compose them. You make music: the music is called fiction.
— E.L. Doctorow
To tell about a drunken muzhik's beating his wife is incomparably harder than to compose a whole tract about the 'woman question.'
— Ivan Turgenev
People compose poetry, novels, sitcoms - for love.
— Helen Fisher
Expectant. My chest bumps like a dryer with shoes in it. I compose what I project will be seen as a
— David Foster Wallace
Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
'TIME's spell-check always admonishes me whenever I compose a sentence in the passive voice, a warning that is often ignored by me.
— Richard Corliss
To compose a subject well means no more than to see and present it in the strongest manner possible.
— Edward Weston
My dear sister! I'm amazed to discover that you can compose so delightfully. In a word, your Lied is beautiful. You must compose more often.
— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Tough times are inevitable in life and in business. But how you compose yourself during those times defines your spirit and will define your future.
— Richard Branson
I think in general I've never dared compose in Spanish. First of all, it is such an intricate language.
— Marc Anthony
There is no time in modern agriculture for a farmer to write a poem or compose a song.
— Masanobu Fukuoka
Later, I would ask Shaya to help me compose a formal response to Katrice's letter, something a long the lines of I am the Thorn Queen. F*** Off.
— Richelle Mead
You know too well the forces which compose their army to dread their superior numbers.
— James Wolfe
The life of a couple is lived on the mental level of the more mediocre of the two beings who compose it.
— Andre Maurois
Madam, you ask me how I compose. I compose sitting down.
— Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
I attempt to compose symphonies, although it is clear to me that logically it is pointless.
— Alfred Schnittke
They compose poems to their knives.
— Frank Herbert
I always begin to compose the melody first.
— Nobuo Uematsu
One of the challenges is creating characters. I am trying to compose my sentences to express epic events happening to ordinary people.
— Andrea Hirata
According to our purpose, motivation and sincerity, which compose our devotion, Krishna reveals Himself to us.
— Radhanath Swami
Authors are directors of the mind. Think about how you would compose a scene. Make it cinematic.
— Kira Hawke
Not philosophers but fretsawyers and stamp collectors compose the backbone of society.
— Aldous Huxley
My mother had to explain that one couldnt compose a Liszt rhapsody because it was a piece of music that Liszt himself had composed.
— Sergei Prokofiev
It required 85 parts by weight of oxygen and 15 parts of hydrogen to compose 100 parts of water.
— Antoine Lavoisier
I carry themes in my mind for years before I will try to compose them. I've got themes that will last me now 'til I die.
— R. B. Kitaj
Millions of things came back to her. Atoms danced apart and massed themselves. But how did they compose what people called a life?
— Virginia Woolf
I never force myself to be devout except when I feel so inspired, and never compose hymns of prayers unless I feel within me real and true devotion.
— Franz Schubert
Talentless and incompetent as I am, there are two things I can do, and two things only: walk, with my own two feet; compose, composing my poems.
— Santoka Taneda
The progress of the world can certainly never come at all save by the modified action of the individual beings who compose the world.
— George Eliot
I am slow. A sentence often takes an hour to compose before I throw it out. What can you do?
— Edith Pearlman
Just as one can compose colors, or forms, so one can compose motions.
— Alexander Calder
I felt a longing to compose a radical or root poem that would speak to what has its back turned to me.
— Robert Bly
Normally, when people compose for film, you give them the film, and they look at it, and they compose it.
— Hideo Kojima
