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Just as one can compose colors, or forms, so one can compose motions.


Alexander Calder

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MARIA W. CHAPMAN He that can compose himself, is wiser than he that composes books
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DUANE HEWITT A society can be no better than the men and women who compose it.
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PABLO PICASSO Jane Heard.
ONE In science, if you don't do it, somebody else will. Whereas in art, if Beethoven didn't comp...
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON I compose and he doesn't compose. I cannot admire the composition of his music, only a few songs are...
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CAN OSTEN Kurtuluş Savaşı yılları... Türkiye Cumhuriyeti'nin kuruluşunda emeği geçen ama gölgede kal...
CAN DüNDAR Divers have found there is no air left in the holds of the ship. That means sea water has filled the...
CAN KARACA They must be all dead, if there is anybody else in those holds.
CAN KARACA There is little hope to find them alive.
CAN KARACA Bi sen eksiktin ayışığı
Gümüş bir tüy dikmek için manzaraya!
CAN YüCEL My mother had to explain that one couldn't compose a Liszt rhapsody because it was a piece of music ...
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GEORGE ELIOT I did not compose my work as one might put on a church vestment... rather it sprung from the truly f...
FRANZ LISZT Birds do not attend music school, but compose timeless masterpieces.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO There is no time in modern agriculture for a farmer to write a poem or compose a song.
MASANOBU FUKUOKA I write most of my songs to beats. I play around on guitar, but not enough to where I can compose my...
KEHLANI Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief.
SIGMUND FREUD Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief
SIGMUND FREUD The way to compose for me is to have lots of time.
EBERHARD WEBER Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify ...
WALTER LIPPMANN Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify ...
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YOLANDI VISSER With the help of modern technology, I can compose intricate keyboard parts and then I have to go bac...
GEDDY LEE This, in fact, is the power of the imagination, which, combining the memory of gold with that of the...
UMBERTO ECO I am my own secretary; I dictate, I compose, I copy all myself.
VENERABLE BEDE I am not a methodical singer. I don't follow any process or rules; what I follow is just my hear...
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GRAHAM GREENE Before I compose a piece, I walk around it several times, accompanied by myself.
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NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON I could compose on white sheets, in longhand, but it would be an added handicap. . . .
WILLIAM STYRON The discipline of creation, be it to paint, compose, write, is an effort towards wholeness.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE Everything what you do has sense. If you don't like the world around you can draw your own, compose ...
ALEXANDER Everything what you do has sense. If you don't like the world around you can draw your own, compose ...
ALEXANDER ZALAN He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happi...
OLYMPIA BROWN Books are acts of composition: you compose them. You make music: the music is called fiction.
E. L. DOCTOROW And if you can’t shape your life the way you want, at least try as much as you can not to degrade ...
CONSTANTINOS P. CAVAFIS You don't know, oh, oh
You don't know you're beautiful.
ONE DIRECTION Love yourself and your expression, you can't go wrong.
KRS-ONE We get rated down by homeowners associations because we have no slums.
DAY ONE If we could only have this life for one more day. If we could only turn back time. You know I'll be ...
ONE DIRECTION You know I'll be
Your Life
Your Voice
Your Reason To Be
My Love
My Heart...
ONE DIRECTION do not cry , you can focus the light spot with the eyes , the eyes of your heart . smile
MISTER ONE Everyone loves the David and Goliath story, but if Goliath had slain David, it'd never have made the...
DAY ONE I've been coming here since Day One, ... Watching games at home is no fun. It's boring. Here, we get...
DAY ONE If it was $10 a gallon, I'd be buying it today since you can't get it anywhere else,
DAY ONE Get every drop in there. Can't lose none,
DAY ONE big, medium and small.
DAY ONE Yes, look, I don't think I can explain this any better to you, but we don't want to ... Well, I gues...
DAY ONE You hand fits in mine like its made to be but bear this in mind it was meant to be and im joining up...
ONE DIRECTION Tell me I'm a screwed up mess, that I never listen, listen. Tell me you don't want my kiss, that ...
ONE DIRECTION You're impossible to resist, but I wouldn't bet your heart on it. It's like I'm finally awake, and...
ONE DIRECTION Baby you light up my world like nobody else. The way that you flip your hair gets me overwhelmed. An...
ONE DIRECTION Why did the mushroom go to the party?
Because he's a fungi!
ONE DIRECTION Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.
LAWRENCE DURRELL If I wish to compose or write or pray or preach well, I must be angry. Then all the blood in my vein...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purp...
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER This is one of the paradoxes of the democratic movement -- that it loves a crowd and fears the indiv...
WALTER LIPPMANN My sole literary ambition is to write one good novel, then retire to my hut in the desert, assume th...
EDWARD ABBEY This is one of the paradoxes of the democratic movement - that it loves a crowd and fears the indivi...
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J.K. ROWLING Worry is the worst enemy of one’s inner strength which deprives initiation & action.Worrying can s...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA To compose music, all you have to do is remember a tune that nobody else has thought of
ROBERT A. SCHUMANN Each day we draft a new movement in our symphony of life; what melody will you compose today?
KEN POIROT We compose music using technology. We use computers to shape sound, and we record things and manipul...
JEFF HASS I don't compose, actually. I just record. I'm the opposite of a composer in my way of workin...
YANN TIERSEN I would love to compose something for dance before I kick the bucket, and I'm not closed-minded ...
TORI AMOS Biography, like big game hunting, is one of the recognized forms of sport, and it is as unfair as on...
PHILIP GUEDALLA Art forms of the past were really considered elitist. Bach did not compose for the masses, neither d...
DAVID CRONENBERG I would love to compose something for dance before I kick the bucket, and I'm not closed-minded ...
TORI AMOS To compose our character is our duty, not to compose books, and to win, not battles and provinces, b...
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE In order to compose, all you need to do is remember a tune that nobody else has thought of.
ROBERT A. SCHUMANN I never force myself to be devout except when I feel so inspired, and never compose hymns of prayers...
FRANZ SCHUBERT I would enjoy venturing into music, as I do write songs and compose music! And, of course, dance, rh...
JIAH KHAN I proposed to my wife on Brighton Beach, and she said yes. That's pretty romantic. Even though I...
ROBERT WEBB It is not hard to compose, but what is fabulously hard is to leave the superfluous notes under the t...
JOHANNES BRAHMS As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of famili...
JOHN DONNE If only it be admitted that art may be unintelligible to any one of sound mind and yet be art, there...
LEO NIKOLAEVICH TOLSTOY Forms of love are so many. Just make sure your heart can fit in it.
MUNIA KHAN One of the basic things about a string is that it can vibrate in many different shapes or forms, whi...
EDWARD WITTEN Socrates didn't care to visit the theater, as a rule, except when the plays of Euripides (which ...
MOSES MENDELSSOHN If you compose your dreams into a music,then your dreams will become the music you will always love ...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Ye tuneful cobblers! still your notes prolong, Compose at once a slipper and a song; So shall...
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) It's one thing to make financial aid available to students so they can attend college. It's ...
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ALEXANDER COMFORT My two favorite movies are 'Coming to America' and 'Boomerang'.
SHAUN ALEXANDER A man should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is...
ALEXANDER POPE Lely on animated canvas stole The sleepy eye, that spoke the melting soul.
ALEXANDER POPE He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
ALEXANDER POPE Wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
ALEXANDER POPE If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a midd...
ALEXANDER POPE But if We have such another victory, we are undone.
ALEXANDER POPE The heart resolves this matter in a trice, "Men only feel the smart, but not the vice."
ALEXANDER POPE Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast; But shall the dignity of vice be lost?
ALEXANDER POPE Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.
ALEXANDER POPE What riches give us let us then inquire: Meat, fire, and clothes. What more? Meat, clothes, and ...
ALEXANDER POPE Get place and wealth, if possible, with grace; If not, by any means get wealth and place.
ALEXANDER POPE One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.
ALEXANDER POPE When I was training, I trained with my younger brother Brady. I would wrestle some of my friends, wh...
JAIMIE ALEXANDER Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon the rights of others.
ALEXANDER POPE Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill.
ALEXANDER POPE But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.
ALEXANDER POPE Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.
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