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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
Time Language Free Every Range Composition Both Freely Dialect Accretion Race Viewed English English Language Growth
Agriculture changes the landscape more than anything else we do. It alters the composition of species. We don't realize it when we sit down to eat, but that is our most profound engagement with the rest of nature. Michael Pollan
Nature Agriculture Rest Sit Down Changes Else Our Eat Composition More More Than Anything Most Than Anything Anything Else Realize Landscape Engagement Species Profound
Everybody has a right to like or dislike anything or anyone. From a flower to a flavor to a book or a composition but it is very sad that in our country we actually fight over such things in an unseemly manner. Ravi Shankar
Sad Fight Book Country Flower Everybody Our Composition Over Like Very Anyone Anything Flavor Dislike Manner Such Things Actually Right Things
Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous. Vincent Van Gogh
Good Knowledge Good Taste Imagination Enormous Those Composition Had Scientific Scientific Knowledge Were Taste Any Fantasy Hardly
The great photographers of life - like Diane Arbus and Walker Evans and Robert Frank - all must have had some special quality: a personality of nurturing and non-judgment that frees the subjects to reveal their most intimate reality. It really is what makes a great photographer, every bit as much as understanding composition and lighting. Caleb Deschanel
Life Great Quality Reality Personality Nurturing Understanding Every Intimate Bit Frank Must Photographer Photographers Some Composition Had Lighting Like Most Robert Reveal Makes Diane Subjects Walker Much Really Special
Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book. Edward Gibbon
Learning Book Thinking Resolved Composition Habits Write Unskilled Arts Original
True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories. Florence King
Memories Composition True Nostalgia Disjointed Ephemeral
An excellent habit to cultivate is the analytical study of the King James Bible. For simple yet rich and forceful English, this masterly production is hard to equal; and even though its Saxon vocabulary and poetic rhythm be unsuited to general composition, it is an invaluable model for writers on quaint or imaginative themes. H. P. Lovecraft
Bible Simple King Rich Analytical Saxon Though Composition Vocabulary Invaluable General Poetic Habit Excellent Writers Study Quaint Equal Forceful Cultivate Model James Rhythm Themes Production Hard English Even Imaginative
I have found that, in the composition of the human body as compared with the bodies of animals, the organs of sense are duller and coarser. Thus, it is composed of less ingenious instruments, and of spaces less capacious for receiving the faculties of sense. Leonardo da Vinci
Animals Sense Composed Composition Faculties Thus Instruments Human Human Body Spaces Ingenious Bodies Body Less Organs Compared Found Receiving
Far more thought and care go into the composition of any prominent ad in a newspaper or magazine than go into the writing of their features and editorials. Marshall McLuhan
Writing Care Thought Prominent Magazine Composition More Features Go Than Any Newspaper Far Ad
Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are. Henry David Thoreau
Best You Will Nothing Luck Tricks Composition Write Goes
Film directing has perfected my theater directing. I think when I first started directing, a lot of my stuff was very lateral; I was afraid to have the actors' backs turned away, afraid to put them too far upstage, and I think once I did more things with film, I got more interested in composition. Adam Rapp
First Think Too Once Backs Composition Directing More Put Stuff Got Lot Very Did Afraid Theater Interested Them Far Turned Film Actor Away Things Started
A jazz tune, melody, or composition is usually based on either a traditional twelve-bar, eight-bar, or four-bar blues chorus or on the thirty-two-bar chorus of the American popular song. Albert Murray
Song Jazz Melody Composition Traditional American Blues Tune Either Popular Chorus Based
We don't notice that our cells are turning over all the time. You get a completely new composition of cells every seven years, and on the surface, or subjectively, it looks as though you're the same for seven years. It's like a ground - it looks stable, but beneath it, everything is shifting all the time. It's exciting and dangerous. Alexandra Kleeman
Time You Dangerous Shifting Every Beneath Our Seven Everything Though Composition Exciting Over New Like Looks Surface Years Get Same Cells Stable Turning Notice Ground
One might almost reckon mathematically that, having undergone the double composition of public opinion and of the author, their history reaches us at third hand and is thus separated by two stages from the original fact. Alfred de Vigny
History Reckon Composition Having Fact Almost Thus Undergone Opinion Mathematically Hand Author Stages Public Might Double Us Separated Public Opinion Original Two Third
What has stayed true all the way through my work is my composition, I hope, and my sense of color. Annie Leibovitz
Work Hope Sense Way Stayed Composition Color Through True
The conductor's gift does not always go hand in hand with that of composition; indeed, the union is found much more seldom than is popularly believed. Anton Seidl
Gift Indeed Composition More Seldom Does Always Go Hand Hand-In-Hand Conductor Than Much Union Found Believed
For pure joy, I look at a small painting by Arbit Blatas. An ocean liner is at the center of the composition, perhaps ready to depart. It holds the promise of discovery. Antonio Damasio
Joy Pure Ocean Painting Promise Pure Joy Composition Small Perhaps Look Ready Discovery Depart Center Holds
Analysis of the composition of samples of DNA from a great variety of sources and by many investigators revealed the remarkable fact that the purine content always equals the pyrimidine content. Arthur Kornberg
Great Analysis Composition Variety Fact Remarkable Investigators Content Equals Revealed Always Sources Samples Many
You tend to compose things more in the middle of frame in 3-D than you would in a conventional frame. You can really see composition in 2-D but in 3-D your composition is much more complex. Everything has to be artificially enhanced. But you do gain something else with 3-D: you have a sense of space and heightened reality. Caleb Deschanel
You Reality Space Sense Else Frame Everything Complex Would Compose See Composition Something Something Else More Tend Than Artificially Middle Conventional Gain Much Really Your Enhanced Things
My main object is to write, to keep learning. I always try to perfect my composition. But I do like writing film and opera music. I believe that it fulfills the needs of particular situations. Carmine Coppola
Music Needs Learning Writing Try Believe Object Composition Perfect Write Main Particular Like Opera Always Situations Fulfills Keep Film
MIDI made a natural transition to the PC. The MIDI messages that make up a musical composition can be saved as MIDI files, which are collections of MIDI messages with timing information. Charles Petzold
Natural Made Timing Saved Musical Collections Composition Messages Make Make Up Up Information Which Transition Files
The great thing about working in comics is that visually, you're the sole voice. You have to figure out the staging, the lighting, the composition, the character emotions, the action. You get a script, but you're trying to work it out in individual panels. It's a terrific exercise in creative thinking and creative problem-solving. Chris Renaud
Work Great Character You Creative Emotions Action Thinking Sole Out Composition About Voice Individual Lighting Great Thing Terrific Exercise Comics Get Trying Problem-Solving Staging Script Working Figure Thing
No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition. Claude Monet
Picture Before Painting Unless Carries Composition No-One He Head Sure Method His Artist
I don't listen to much modern composition. Colin Greenwood
Composition Modern Listen Much
I always look at money not as a motivating factor but as an element in the composition. You can't ignore it, but you've got to be very careful that it's not motivating you. Damien Hirst
You Money Composition Factor Look Always Got Motivating Very Ignore Element Careful
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