Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Shannon

You can't escape this feeling of disintegration. The world is fragile. But you also can't let it ruin your life. I'm actually a pretty composed person. I guess people imagine I spend my life thinking about crazy, sinister things but I don't, really. It's not like I'm trying to exorcise any demons.

We're getting quality chances, we just gotta start finishing. We just need to keep composed and do what we're doing.

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

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.

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).

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.

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.

N. Scott Momaday

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

Mikhail Kalashnikov

Life is composed of different inventions. I have continued to work at different things and rebuilt my home all by myself. I did it for the sake of satisfaction at doing something.

Plautus

Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Louis D. Brandeis

The difference between a nation and a nationality is clear, but it is not always observed. Likeness between members is the essence of nationality, but the members of a nation may be very different. A nation may be composed of many nationalities, as some of the most successful nations are.

John F. Kennedy

Written in Chinese, the word crisis, is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represent opportunity.

Music is composed on computers and other electronic equipment; producers don't want to spend money on orchestra.

Mary Gordon

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

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.

Helen Garner

I just... my childhood seems, when I look back, to be largely composed of reading, lying on the bed. I mean, my mother was always shouting, 'Go outside!' But she shouted it at all of us. I think I was just kind of... rather an introverted child, probably.

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.

We support reform of the U.S. immigration system, but we also estimate about 20 percent of the current residential construction workforce nationwide is composed of foreign-born workers.

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

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.

Yngwie Malmsteen

This was a huge, huge undertaking. I composed this concerto from the ground up. It took about two years total to compose, but there were interruptions when I was touring and making rock albums,

Our experience is composed rather of illusions lost than of wisdom acquired.

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.

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

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,

We've got right now what I was hoping to have in mid-January. I see a really seasoned, composed team.

Damon Galgut

Yoga helps me with a composed and serene state of mind, which is good for writing.

Steve Walsh

You just want to have yourself mentally composed and not get rattled.

We were more composed in the first half. We got away from our defense and gave them some shots in the second half. They started to get open looks. We pulled it out though, because we really wanted it and were confident in each other.

The kind of evidence that was put before the jurors led to less-than-rational decision-making. I think that juries are composed of good people who can be misled.