Quotes About English Composition

#1. I can't allow what we learned in English composition to disrupt the sound and rhythm of the narrative.

Elmore Leonard

#2. The main motive for "nonattachment" is a desire to escape from the pain of living, and above all from love, which, sexual or non-sexual, is hard work.

George Orwell

#3. I speak English. I grew up speaking Bengali. This is the normal, the known, the obvious composition of who I am. Then there's Italian, this strange, other component of me that I've just created. It was a creative process just to learn the language, never mind to start expressing myself in it.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#4. I'm older than my sister so I started writing first. I started writing at school. I was always top of my class in composition, essays, English Lit and all of that.

Joan Collins

#5. I would probably never have learned to cook.

Elizabeth David

#6. I've never been more bummed walking out of a movie and back into present time than after seeing 'Midnight in Paris.

Gregor Collins

#7. Composition is interesting because, in a sense, you always have to let it go. Unless you're a true composer/performer, you're always sending a PDF and then someone else makes it. It's like instructions for a short story, faxed to every English student who's studying it.

Nico Muhly

#8. When I'm, like, 30, I want to go off the map, have a family and live in Malibu with a farm, and just raise my own chickens.

Kylie Jenner

#9. The last I saw of him was of a dark blue back marching towards Shaftesbury Avenue; eternally the victor in a war where the losers win.

John Fowles

#10. The visible world was only an imperfect reflection of the Ideal, which the Philosopher sought to transcend.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

#11. Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all.

Walt Whitman

#12. I am a storyteller with my music. And my story, nobody gonna tell it for me.

Angelique Kidjo

#13. Just like I'm the king on the microphone, so is Dr. J and Moses Malone
I like slam dunks, take me to the hoop my favorite play is the alley-oop
I like the pick-and-roll, I like the give-and-go
Cause it's basketball, uh, Mister Kurtis Blow.

Kurtis Blow