quotes about Mood
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We often lose our tempers not with those who are actually to blame; just with those who love us enough to forgive us our foul moods.
-- Alain de Botton -
It's subjunctive history. You know, the subjunctive? The mood used when something may or may not have happened. When it is imagined.
-- Alan Bennett -
I used flowers because they die. My mood was darkly romantic at the time.
-- Alexander McQueen -
It is not paradox to say that in our most theoretical moods we may be nearest to our most practical applications.
-- Alfred North Whitehead -
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Clothes can transform your mood and confidence.
-- Alice TemperleySource : "Five things I know about style: Alice Temperley". Interview with Shahesta Shaitly, www.theguardian.com. July 2, 2011.
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If someone is in a bad mood, tickling only makes it worse.
-- Amy Krouse Rosenthal -
Everything is always going through changes in terms of attitudes or mood.
-- Andrew W.K. -
I'm not at all interested in painting the object just as it is in nature. Certainly I'm much more interested in the mood of a thing than the truth of a thing.
-- Andrew Wyeth -
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I haven't been in a good mood since I was 6 years old
-- Andy Jenkins -
I don't often reread my own books, unless I am going into another in the series and need to refresh my mood when originating the concept
-- Anne McCaffrey -
The kind of music I like depends very much on my mood.
-- Anni-Frid Lyngstad -
My mood altered and the pain turned to rage.
-- Ariel Sharon -
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I'm known for changing halfway through the day if my mood swings.
-- Ashley Madekwe -
Dogs understand your moods and your thoughts, and if you are thinking unpleasant things about your dog, he will pick it up and be downhearted.
-- Barbara WoodhouseSource : Barbara Woodhouse (1984). “No Bad Dogs: The Woodhouse Way”, p.45, Simon and Schuster
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Goat curry and a female librarian, that's what I'm in the mood for.
-- Ben Katchor -
Books became her friends, and there was one for every mood.
-- Betty Smith -
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Nothing helps a bad mood like spreading it around.
-- Bill Watterson -
I don't have a father, but my kids tell me every day that they love me... even when I am not in my best mood.
-- Boman Irani -
As soon as I hear a sound, it always suggests a mood to me.
-- Brian Eno -
Why should I spoil my mood by wearing an ugly suit?
-- Bryan Ferry -
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I am in no mood to be deceived any longer by the crafty devil and false character whose greatest pleasure is to take advantage of everyone.
-- Camille Claudel -
If you’re not in a good mood, the only thing you should make is a reservation.
-- Carla Hall -
I prefer you like this, when you're in a foul mood, because you tell the truth.
-- Carlos Ruiz Zafon -
I love kids. I just love kids. They put you in a good mood and they are so full of life.
-- Carmen Electra -
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You were in a mood to quarrel. Please inform me once the inclination passes.
-- Catherine the Great -
I have a friend who, if she has a bad hair day, it affects her whole mood because it is part of her sexuality, her confidence. I don't have that problem any more.
-- Cathy Freeman -
Love is not a theme. It's an atmosphere, a mood.
-- Cecelia Ahern -
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Only exercise on the days you want to improve your mood.
-- Chalene Johnson -
Music is everything to me. I wake up and go to bed with it. I listen to all genres, depending on my mood.
-- Chanel ImanSource : "Exclusive: Chanel Iman Behind-the-Scenes for Skullcandy". Interview with Lauren Levinson, www.elle.com. August 28, 2012.
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The thing with pretending you're in a good mood is that sometimes you can.
-- Charles de Lint -
I find fragrance to be such a mood enhancer and definitely a seduction tool.
-- Christina Aguilera -
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To heal mine aching moods, Give me God's virgin woods.
-- Clinton ScollardSource : Clinton Scollard (1906). “Easter-song: Lyrics and Ballads of the Joy of Spring-time”
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The moods of love are like the wind, And none knows whence or why they rise.
-- Coventry PatmoreSource : Coventry Patmore (1863). “The betrothal. The espousals”, p.104
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Rhythmic motion has become the carrier and creator of almost every ecstatic mood of any significance in human life.
-- Curt Sachs -
Doubtless these are inconsequential perplexities. Still, inconsequential perplexities have now and again been known to become the fundamental mood of existence, one suspects.
-- David MarksonSource : David Markson (1995). “Wittgenstein's mistress”, Dalkey Archive Pr
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A bad mood is like bad breath. Both are wrong to inflict onto others
-- Dennis Prager -
A cat has to be in a very bad mood if a human cannot coax him to purr.
-- Derek Tangye -
In Romanticism, the main determinant is the mood, the atmosphere. And in that regard, you could also describe Schubert as a Romantic.
-- Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau -
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I'm in the mood for love, simply because you're near me. Funny, but when you're near me I'm in the mood for love.
-- Dorothy FieldsSource : "I'm in the Mood for Love" (song) (1935)
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That is my being, the madness of an unaccustomed mood.
-- Edna St. Vincent Millay -
If what you want to paint is the emotive mood in all its strength... then you must not sit and stare at everything and depict it exactly as one sees it.
-- Edvard Munch -
When I don't feel in the mood for painting I go to the movies for a week or more. I go on a regular movie binge!
-- Edward Hopper -
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To me, lighting really sets the mood for a room. A 40 watt bulb in a cheap lamp is the same as a 40 watt bulb in an expensive one.
-- Edward S. Walker, Jr. -
I had this sense that I was part of, sort of a lineage of artists and writers through history that have had mood disorders.
-- Ellen ForneySource : "Ellen Forney On Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, And 'Marbles'". Interview with Eddie Wright, www.mtv.com. November 28, 2012.
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I was playing in the beginning, the mood all changed
-- Eminem -
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I have often noticed how primate groups in their entirety enter a similar mood. All of a sudden, all of them are playful, hopping around. Or all of them are grumpy. Or all of them are sleepy and settle down. In such cases, the mood contagion serves the function of synchronizing activities.
-- Frans de Waal -
We are staunch and true and in rather a champagne mood.
-- Franz Marc -
Nature is in austere mood, even terrifying, withal majestically beautiful.
-- Frederick Soddy -
No sign of pleasure greeted the announcement. The mood in the hall was leaden. My mood was livelier. Fright is livelier than lead.
-- Gail Carson Levine -
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That which is around me does not affect my mood; my mood affects that which is around me.
-- Garth SteinSource : Garth Stein (2008). “The Art of Racing in the Rain”, Harper
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The memory has as many moods as the temper, and shifts its scenery like a diorama.
-- George Eliot -
When I'm in my normal mood, music drips from my fingers.
-- George Gershwin -
Painting pictures is simply the official, the daily work, the profession, and in the case of the watercolours I can sooner afford to follow my mood, my spirits.
-- Gerhard Richter -
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And for some reason, when I'm sad, I do listen to Leonard Cohen, I do listen to Joni Mitchell. I do find myself going to the music that's actually reflecting my mood, as opposed to sticking on Motown, which might actually bring my mood up.
-- Glen Hansard -
My moods are inversely related to the clarity of the sky.
-- Glenn Gould -
I think music can heal your soul if you'll let it. It can also bring you up if you're down. It can also bring you down if you're too up. It's a mood thing.
-- Gretchen Wilson -
...Your angry and jealous and in the mood to do some forceful dentistry
-- Heather Brewer -
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The gazelles so gentle and clever Skip lightly in frolicsome mood.
-- Heinrich Heine -
An excessive preponderance of an idealistic mood is harmful to society: it creates daydreaming, political Don Quixotism, hope for heavenly intervention. This is an undeniable truth--but it is also true that every extreme is harmful.
-- Henryk Sienkiewicz -
Old God sure was in a good mood when he made this place.
-- Hunter S. Thompson -
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Luck in all its moods had to be loved and not feared. Bond saw luck as a woman, to be softly wooed or brutally ravaged, never pandered to or pursued.
-- Ian Fleming -
Every meaning is a projection of the viewer's inarticulate moods.
-- James ElkinsSource : James Elkins (2004). “What Painting Is”, p.45, Routledge
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It is good To lengthen to the last a sunny mood.
-- James Russell Lowell -
The stock market has an insidious effect on C.E.O.s' moods, because of its impact not just on their companies but on their own bank accounts.
-- James Surowiecki -
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Words were the only net to catch a mood, the only sure weapon against oblivion.
-- Jan Struther -
A mood disorder is dangerous. You've got to get those dramatic waves of highs and lows stabilized. It's dangerous if you don't.
-- Jane PauleySource : "Pauley: 'I was suffering from bipolar disorder'". Interview with Matt Lauer, www.today.com. August 31, 2004.
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There are no reasons for my photographs, nor any rules; all depends on the mood of the moment.
-- Jeanloup Sieff -
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The music I listen to while writing is really scene-specific. It's just a great motivator, a way to put myself in the mood.
-- Jeff VanderMeer -
They thought depression was like bieng 'depressed'. They thought it was like being in a bad mood, only worse. Therefore, they tried to get him to snap out of it.
-- Jeffrey Eugenides -
movies have mirrored our moods and myths since the century began. They have taken on some of the work of religion.
-- Jennifer Stone -
You can't overthink the music. Mood and intensity can't be manufactured. The blues isn't about structure; it's what you bring to it. The spontaneity of capturing a speciï¬c moment is what drives it.
-- Jimmy PageSource : Source: www.guernicamag.com
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To convey one’s mood in seventeen syllables is very diffic
-- John Cooper Clarke -
So it is in poetry. All we ask is that the mood recorded shall impress us as having been of the kind that exhausts the imaginative capacity; if it fails to do this the failure will announce itself either in prose or in insignificant verse.
-- John DrinkwaterSource : John Drinkwater (1922). “The Lyric: An Essay”
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For while the subjects of poetry are few and recurrent, the moods of man are infinitely various and unstable. It is the same in all arts.
-- John DrinkwaterSource : John Drinkwater (1922). “The Lyric: An Essay”, p.8, Library of Alexandria
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For me, living and making music, they're one thing. It's not like a job that I go to a studio to do, or a chore that I have to get myself in the mood to do, or something. It's the thing that I need to do every day.
-- John Frusciante -
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Once you get into the groove of things and in the mood you are usually fine; it is before the event that you get nervous and irritable.
-- John Gallagher, Jr. -
A money-lender--he serves you in the present tense; he lends you in the conditional mood; keeps you in the conjunctive; and ruins you in the future.
-- Joseph Addison -
But the moods could be contagious. He didn't need one right now.
-- Josephine HumphreysSource : Josephine Humphreys (2000). “The Fireman's Fair”, p.50, Penguin
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I have many moods, and there is no objective reality. And I kind of live by that.
-- Juliana Hatfield -
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I'm gonna be so mad when my mood elevators wear off.
-- Karen Walker -
In nearly all ballads, the words set the mood and meaning, while the music intensifies or enhances them.
-- Kate Smith -
Meanings, moods, the whole scale of our inner experience, finds in nature the 'correspondences' through which we may know our boundless selves.
-- Kathleen RaineSource : Kathleen Raine (1989). “Selected Poems”, p.6, SteinerBooks
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I believe that any art communicates what you're in the mood to receive.
-- Larry Rivers -
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I am a believer that color affects people's moods.
-- Lilly Pulitzer -
Everybody knew that being dead could put you in a terrible mood.
-- Luis Alberto UrreaSource : Luis Alberto Urrea (2006). “The Hummingbird's Daughter: A Novel”, p.8, Hachette UK
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You know sometimes when you're in a really bad mood and you're not sure why? That's how I get sometimes.
-- Maisie Williams -
Women have a way of contorting things sometimes. We all have our moods, ups and downs.
-- Malin Akerman -
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To create well I have to be in a good mood, happy and cool.
-- Marc Newson -
Don't wait until you're 'in the mood.' Get into the mood by writing.
-- Margaret Atwood -
Clouds suit my mood just fine.
-- Marie LuSource : Marie Lu (2013). “Champion: A Legend Novel”, p.156, Penguin
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I have mood poisoning. Must be something I hate.
-- Marilyn Manson -
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It's not always easy to distinguish between existentialism and a bad mood.
-- Matthew Woodring StoverSource : Matthew Woodring Stover (2008). “Blade of Tyshalle”, p.992, Del Rey
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I should like, if I could, to leave a humble gift -- a bit of chaste prose that had caught up some noble moods.
-- Max Ehrmann -
Sometimes I can be tactful and sometimes not. It all depends on the mood I'm in.
-- Melanie BrownSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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