Famous Quotes & Sayings

(Sutton's) an outstanding pitcher, she really is. She is very composed and she does a good job, she's a competitor.

Mignon McLaughlin

Our strength is often composed of the weakness we're damned if we're going to show

Our valley is pretty much composed of retired people - 'old school.' A lot of those traditions were passed down. There's a group of us that would like to preserve those old values.

Anton Seidl

Composers are not all good conductors.

Bruce Kovner

It has been great fun to find these manuscripts and pull them together into this collection. I trust that what we are doing at the school will make it possible for Juilliard students and scholars to delve into the compositional processes of these great composers and share them with the rest of the world.

Sergei Prokofiev

My mother had to explain that one couldn't compose a Liszt rhapsody because it was a piece of music that Liszt himself had composed.

I was very pleased with how composed our kids were in another extra-inning game. We had a lot of first-year Auburn players come to the plate in that tenth inning and I thought we handled the pressure very well.

Phil Garner

I thought he was as composed as I've ever seen him,

Anne Dudley

I think the thing about being a film composer is that you have to be pretty eclectic-be able to turn your hand to all sorts of different styles and genres and be familiar with the latest rhythms and the range of an obscure instrument.

Joe Thompson

He kicks it and he's never looked back from there. He's one of those guys that is a natural athlete. He's never out of control. That is his mentality. He is composed and poised.

Graeme Murphy

Yes, Carl Vine stuck around. He's now number one composer for choreography.

Scott Patterson

I write a lot of music in my time off and I compose most of the songs on guitar. I've actually gone into the studio and recorded a few things, but it's tough trying to sell a song. It's all about finding that hook, that melody.

Imagination, which is the Eldorado of the poet and of the novel-writer, often proves the most pernicious gift to the individuals who compose the talkers instead of the writers in society

I give a lot of credit to Kevin Regan. It?s not easy to stay composed when you?re down 3-0. I was proud of the way the guys responded.

He's going to be a lot more composed this year then he was in previous years. He has something personal to prove.

Richard Rodgers

If a composer is to reach his audience emotionally - and surely that's what theatre music is all about - he must reach the people through sounds they can relate to.

Jason Mraz

I get my most creative sort of energy after a show. So I love to go back to the hotel and compose new material. Generally in a rush, exactly. I have to get it out somehow, otherwise I can't sleep, you know.

He's played well in all his appearances. He looked very composed and after giving up an early goal, he didn't panic.

He got a little emotional over at Holy Cross when he talked to the players and had to say goodbye there. He composed himself, looked the players straight in the eye and he said, 'I'm sorry that you had to see my emotional side, but that's the way I am and I expect the same out of you. I want you to play with emotion and passion.' And I think the message was very well received.

Mozart was one of those composers who was successful in all genres, and we wanted to show the diversity of his music.

Mary Gordon

My favorite dish is bibimbap, which is composed of various vegetables, steamed and pickled, and meat toppings over a bed of rice.

She's doing a great job in the back. Composed and confident back there. So, with that we don't have to take one of our outside half(backs) that we were thinking (and moving them to sweeper).

Many now born, by the time they are voters will compose part of a nation with a genius nowhere equaled, and with a vast territory upon which those energies and that genius can operate.

So many of the sounds that contemporary composers were trying to create were to be found in the traditional musics of the world. That was encouraging but also little daunting to think that you had to work so hard to be new and yet it was old.

She's as composed and graceful and confident as I've seen in any 17 year old. But it's hard to come off that big a win and keep the momentum going. It's so much easier to get there than to maintain that level of success.

She's pretty tough to beat. She's very composed and never seems to miss a putt.

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

Pablo Casals

Let us not forget that the greatest composers where also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.

Howard Shore

A lot of what a composer does has to do with storytelling, and there are different ways of fusing music with picture to express different storytelling ideas.

The Patriots are always in the game and never let it get out of hand. We did a good job of staying composed when it got wild at the end.

N. Scott Momaday

As far as I am concerned, poetry is a statement concerning the human condition, composed in verse.

Stephen Sondheim

If you force yourself to write away from the piano, you come up with more inventive things. If you're too good a piano player, as some composers are, the music may become flavorless and glib. And if you're not a very good pianist, you're limited to the same patterns.

Willy Ley

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.