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We compose our life in stories we tell ourselves — John Geddes

Not by wisdom do they [poets] make what they compose, but by a gift of nature and an inspiration similar to that of the diviners and the oracles. — Socrates

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

If I pick up a fiddle, I don't compose on it, so much as I just play whatever. — Sam Amidon

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 compose the frame literally with the camera. Unless it makes a story point. — Steven Spielberg

Is giving in to the photographer's presumably natural impulse to compose and light well sometimes okay and not okay other times? — David Byrne

I'll probably paint on this piano after I compose, for that will inspire me to make more awesome works. — Shawn Lukas

I compose music for films, and by the grace of God, I've got a few awards. That's it. — A.R. Rahman

All newspaper writers have heard that the stuff they compose today has an excellent chance of being used to wrap tomorrow's mackerel. — Ira Berkow

I don't compose. I assemble materials. — Aaron Copland

Only when I experience do I compose - only when I compose do I experience. — Gustav Mahler

The way to compose for me is to have lots of time. — Eberhard Weber

Usually I go to the studio to write lyrics and compose music. I try to be a dad as much as possible at home. — Miyavi

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

I compose a reply. It is an emoticon of a smiling poo. It sums everything up. — Sally Thorne

I just hope His Majesty, may minstrels compose epics at the sound of his glorious name, will do as you say and give this land to its people. — Rae Carson

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

Not a single one of the cells that compose you knows who you are, or cares. — Daniel Dennett

Before I compose a piece, I walk around it several times, accompanied by myself. — Erik Satie

Elegantly accomplished," said Nehemiah Trot. "I shall compose an Ode. Would you like to stay and listen? — Neil Gaiman

I always recommend to any player to always compose their own music. It's one of the best things you can do to find a road to your own style. — Lee Ritenour

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

When I play, I very quickly put myself into a light hypnotic trance and compose while playing, drawing directly from the emotions. — John Fahey

Each day for me is a musical note that I use to compose the symphony of my life. — Paulo Coelho

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

I found myself recycling ideas and I saw that I had to invent reasons to compose a piece rather than start from some exciting idea. — Paul Lansky

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

My dad had been an ardent amateur photographer, and he taught me to compose a photograph from the back to the front, and then populate the picture. — Sam Abell

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

Once we realize the extraordinary power we have to compose our lives, we'll move from passive, conditioned thinking to being co-creators of our fate. — Jason Silva

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

When two souls compose a single song, The muse fans Livid wrath before long. — Euripides

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

Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life. — Maya Angelou

Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is at stake. — E.L. Doctorow

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 don't own a computer. I have a nine-foot piano in my home to compose my messages. Why would I want a one-foot computer to do the same thing? — Tori Amos

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

Music enables mind to compose things in the outer limit of logic. — Toba Beta

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

Human beings and the environment compose a seamless garment of existence, a multicolored cloth, which we believe to be woven in its entirety by God. — Bartholomaus

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

It's always a pleasure when you can compose guitar parts from a strong vocal and not just put the melody on top of guitar riffs. — Wes Borland

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

Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline. — Erica Jong

I can write songs, I've had songs in movies, but I can't compose film scores, you know? — Brian Wilson

She tried, however, to compose herself to answer him with patience, when he should have done. — Jane Austen