Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
Titus Maccius Plautus

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

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

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.
Robert Frost

Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided.
Alphonse Karr

Here we have a baby. It is composed of a bald head and a pair of lungs.
Eugene Field

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.
Kurt Masur

I have composed several pieces which are performed outdoors, not only in the auditoria.
Karlheinz Stockhausen

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

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.
Peter Maxwell Davies

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

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.
Fred Woodworth

If I belong to a tradition, it is a tradition that makes the masterpiece tell the performer what to do, and not the performer telling the piece what it should be like, or the composer what he ought to have composed.
Alfred Brendel

It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.
John Andrew Holmes

It was spontaneously composed as I was playing it. And then I added a couple of other overdub textures on top of it after the fact. But it's one of those things where I wouldn't be able to sit down and specifically write that. That's just what came out.
Dweezil Zappa

Just as the water of a river near its mouth, in its final form, is composed largely of many tributaries, so an idea, in its final form, is composed largely of later additions.
Willy Ley

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.
Robert Henri

Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.
Walt Whitman

Life is a wave, which in no two consecutive moments of its existence is composed of the same particles.
John Tyndall

Life is composed of different inventions.
Mikhail Kalashnikov