Compositionally Quotes

#1. Compositionally I always wanted to be like Fred Astaire.

Morton Feldman

#2. I'd love to work with Sufjan Stevens. He so gets it. He's amazing.

Lee DeWyze

#3. You do not become good by trying to be good, but by finding the goodness that is already within you, and allowing that goodness to emerge. But it can only emerge if something fundamental changes in your state of consciousness.

Eckhart Tolle

#4. He ... preferred always the more to the less remote, what, seeming exceptional, was an instance of law more refined ...

Walter Pater

#5. Were the "pampas," perhaps, flatter than the land they were crossing? He doubted it; what could be flatter than a horizontal plane?

Cesar Aira

#6. The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#7. Most of the things I've had a producorial involvement on began as things I was going to direct, or I set out to direct myself and realized either I don't have the fire in my belly to do it, or I don't feel like I've licked the story enough.

Jonathan Mostow

#8. The countenance may be rightly defined as the title page which heralds the contents of the human volume, but like other title pages, it sometimes puzzles, often misleads, and often says nothing to the purpose.

William Matthews

#9. Family and community seem to have more impact on our happiness than money and health. People

Yuval Noah Harari

#10. Many people do remember their births, but they deny it.

Yoko Ono

#11. You can write 'little beast' if you want, but my name is David Ferrer.

David Ferrer

#12. Well the planet I've got a chance to visit is Earth, and Earth's principal features are chaos and war. I think I'd be a fool to spend years here and never have a look.

P. J. O'Rourke

#13. You start to think bigger when you see how quickly a TV show can catch on in a whole country. That confidence, and thinking big, opened a lot of doors.

Andrew Shue