A Quote by Benjamin Franklin

He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.

Benjamin Franklin

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Benjamin Franklin
American - Politician
January 17, 1706 - April 17, 1790

I am a poet who composes what life proses, and who proses what life composes.

Khalil Gibran

I'm older and wiser. So and now having segued into filmmaking I'm looking at [Ridley Scott ] and what he does in an entirely different way and I have respect for what he does and how he composes shots. So that was what was completely fascinating.

Denzel Washington

God, on the other side of my table, composes His book whose smoke envelops me: for the flame of my candle is His pen.

Edmond Jabes

I'm a relatively disciplined writer who composes the whole book before beginning to execute and write it. Of course, you can't hold - you cannot imagine a whole novel before you write it; there are limits to human memory and imagination. Lots of things come to your mind as you write a book, but again, I make a plan, chapter, know the plot.

Orhan Pamuk

It is what man does not know of God Composes the visible poem of the world.

Richard Eberhart

Whenever he composes a critical review, I have been told, he gets an enormous erection.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Anyone who composes and conducts at the same time is immediately suspect, because he must be faking one or the other.

Esa-Pekka Salonen

The whole body of the arts and sciences composes one vast machinery for the irritation and development of the human intellect.

Thomas de Quincey

The subject matter... is not that collection of solid, static objects extended in space but the life that is lived in the scene that it composes.

Wallace Stevens

Without realizing it, the individual composes his life according to the laws of beauty even in times of greatest distress.

Milan Kundera

Government force is derived from the sum of the physical force each citizen could exert which by one citizen himself would be ineffective, but when summed from the force of all the area's citizens indeed composes a power no citizen or group can withstand. That force is then rightly but justly to be used against those who violate the foundation pillars of freedom.

Ludwig von Mises

By an image we hold on to our lost treasures, but it is the wrenching loss that forms the image, composes, binds the bouquet.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

I love the power of the musician who composes and performs. I envy their ability to put a nugget of truth in three minutes of sweat and emotional outpouring, colored entirely from their thoughts.

Kim Harrison

There's not a good poet I know who has not at the beck and call of his memory a vast quantity of poetry that composes his mental library.

Anthony Hecht

Alas, two men are often necessary to provide a woman with a perfect lover, just as in literature a writer composes a type only by employing the singularities of several similar characters.

Honore de Balzac

A lawyer's relationship to justice and wisdom is on a par with a piano tuner's relationship to a concert. He neither composes the music, nor interprets it-he merely keeps the machinery running.

Lucille Kallen

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