Mood Quotes:

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

topic: Forgiving, Blame, Mood

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

topic: May, Mood, Used

I used flowers because they die. My mood was darkly romantic at the time.

- Alexander McQueen

topic: Flower, Mood, Used

It is not paradox to say that in our most theoretical moods we may be nearest to our most practical applications.

- Alfred North Whitehead

topic: May, Mood, Paradox

Clothes can transform your mood and confidence.

- Alice Temperley

source: "Five things I know about style: Alice Temperley". Interview with Shahesta Shaitly, www.theguardian.com. July 2, 2011.

topic: Clothes, Mood

If someone is in a bad mood, tickling only makes it worse.

- Amy Krouse Rosenthal

topic: Bad Mood, Tickling, Mood

Everything is always going through changes in terms of attitudes or mood.

- Andrew W.K.

topic: Attitude, Mood, Term, Going Through Changes

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

topic: Painting, Mood

I haven't been in a good mood since I was 6 years old

- Andy Jenkins

topic: Years, Good Mood, Mood

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

topic: Book, Needs, Mood

The kind of music I like depends very much on my mood.

- Anni-Frid Lyngstad

topic: Kind, Mood

My mood altered and the pain turned to rage.

- Ariel Sharon

topic: Pain, Rage, Mood

I'm known for changing halfway through the day if my mood swings.

- Ashley Madekwe

topic: Swings, Mood, Mood Swing

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 Woodhouse

source: Barbara Woodhouse (1984). “No Bad Dogs: The Woodhouse Way”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

topic: Dog, Thinking, Mood, Downhearted

Goat curry and a female librarian, that's what I'm in the mood for.

- Ben Katchor

topic: Female, Goats, Mood, Curry

Books became her friends, and there was one for every mood.

- Betty Smith

topic: Book, Mood, Intimate Friends

Nothing helps a bad mood like spreading it around.

- Bill Watterson

topic: Bad Mood, Helping, Mood

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

topic: Father, Kids, Mood

As soon as I hear a sound, it always suggests a mood to me.

- Brian Eno

topic: Sound, Corny, Mood

Why should I spoil my mood by wearing an ugly suit?

- Bryan Ferry

topic: Ugly, Suits, Mood

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

topic: Character, Devil, Mood, Crafty, Greatest Pleasures

I prefer you like this, when you're in a foul mood, because you tell the truth.

- Carlos Ruiz Zafon

topic: Telling The Truth, Mood, Foul

I love kids. I just love kids. They put you in a good mood and they are so full of life.

- Carmen Electra

topic: Kids, Good Mood, Mood

You were in a mood to quarrel. Please inform me once the inclination passes.

- Catherine the Great

topic: Mood, Quarrels, Please

When I'm in a bad mood, I don't listen.

- Cathy Freeman

topic: Bad Mood, Mood

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

topic: Hair, Problem, Mood, Bad Hair Day, Bad Hair

Love is not a theme. It's an atmosphere, a mood.

- Cecelia Ahern

topic: Love Is, Atmosphere, Mood

Only exercise on the days you want to improve your mood.

- Chalene Johnson

topic: Exercise, Want, Mood

Music is everything to me. I wake up and go to bed with it. I listen to all genres, depending on my mood.

- Chanel Iman

source: "Exclusive: Chanel Iman Behind-the-Scenes for Skullcandy". Interview with Lauren Levinson, www.elle.com. August 28, 2012.

topic: Bed, Wake Up, Mood

The thing with pretending you're in a good mood is that sometimes you can.

- Charles de Lint

topic: Sometimes, Good Mood, Mood

I find fragrance to be such a mood enhancer and definitely a seduction tool.

- Christina Aguilera

topic: Tools, Seduction, Mood

To heal mine aching moods, Give me God's virgin woods.

- Clinton Scollard

source: Clinton Scollard (1906). “Easter-song: Lyrics and Ballads of the Joy of Spring-time”

topic: Giving, Woods, Mood

The moods of love are like the wind, And none knows whence or why they rise.

- Coventry Patmore

source: Coventry Patmore (1863). “The betrothal. The espousals”, p.104

topic: Life, Wind, Mood

Rhythmic motion has become the carrier and creator of almost every ecstatic mood of any significance in human life.

- Curt Sachs

topic: Dance, Dancing, Mood

Doubtless these are inconsequential perplexities. Still, inconsequential perplexities have now and again been known to become the fundamental mood of existence, one suspects.

- David Markson

source: David Markson (1995). “Wittgenstein's mistress”, Dalkey Archive Pr

topic: Fundamentals, Mood, Existence, Perplexity, Inconsequential

Certain rhythms just have certain moods.

- Dennis Brown

topic: Mood, Certain, Rhythm

A bad mood is like bad breath. Both are wrong to inflict onto others

- Dennis Prager

topic: Bad Mood, Mood, Bad Breath

A cat has to be in a very bad mood if a human cannot coax him to purr.

- Derek Tangye

topic: Cat, Bad Mood, Mood

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

topic: Romantic Love, Atmosphere, Mood, Romanticism, Schubert

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 Fields

source: "I'm in the Mood for Love" (song) (1935)

topic: Love, Mood

That is my being, the madness of an unaccustomed mood.

- Edna St. Vincent Millay

topic: Madness, Mood

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

topic: Want, Mood, Paint

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

topic: Goes On, Painting, Mood, Binge

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.

topic: Rooms, Lamps, Mood, Bulbs, Lighting

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 Forney

source: "Ellen Forney On Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, And 'Marbles'". Interview with Eddie Wright, www.mtv.com. November 28, 2012.

topic: Artist, Lineage, Mood, Mood Disorders, Artists And Writers

I was playing in the beginning, the mood all changed

- Eminem

topic: Mood, Changed

When trust improves, the mood improves.

- Fernando Flores

topic: Trust, Mood

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

topic: Groups, Sleepy, Mood, Contagion, Grumpy

We are staunch and true and in rather a champagne mood.

- Franz Marc

topic: Europe, Mood, Champagne

Nature is in austere mood, even terrifying, withal majestically beautiful.

- Frederick Soddy

topic: Beautiful, Scary, Mood

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

topic: Fear, Mood, Pleasure

That which is around me does not affect my mood; my mood affects that which is around me.

- Garth Stein

source: Garth Stein (2008). “The Art of Racing in the Rain”, Harper

topic: Doe, Mood

The memory has as many moods as the temper, and shifts its scenery like a diorama.

- George Eliot

topic: Memories, Mood, Scenery

When I'm in my normal mood, music drips from my fingers.

- George Gershwin

topic: Normal, Mood, Fingers, 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

topic: Spirit, Painting, Mood, Daily Work, Painting A Picture

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

topic: Might, Reason, Mood, I'm Sad, Motown

My moods are inversely related to the clarity of the sky.

- Glenn Gould

topic: Sky, Clarity, Mood

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

topic: Thinking, Soul, Mood

...Your angry and jealous and in the mood to do some forceful dentistry

- Heather Brewer

topic: Jealous, Mood, Dentistry

The gazelles so gentle and clever Skip lightly in frolicsome mood.

- Heinrich Heine

topic: Clever, Gazelles, Mood

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

topic: Political, Daydreaming, Mood

Moods should be heard but never danced to.

- Hugh Prather

topic: Depression, Mental Illness, Mood

Old God sure was in a good mood when he made this place.

- Hunter S. Thompson

topic: Good Mood, Mood, Made

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

topic: Luck, Saws, Mood, Casino Royale, Pursued

Every meaning is a projection of the viewer's inarticulate moods.

- James Elkins

source: James Elkins (2004). “What Painting Is”, p.45, Routledge

topic: Mood, Inarticulate, Projection, Viewers

It is good To lengthen to the last a sunny mood.

- James Russell Lowell

topic: Lasts, Sunny, Mood

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

topic: Impact, Mood, Bank Accounts

Better moods = better performance.

- James William Benson

topic: Entrepreneur, Mood, Performances

Words were the only net to catch a mood, the only sure weapon against oblivion.

- Jan Struther

topic: Weapons, Oblivion, Mood

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 Pauley

source: "Pauley: 'I was suffering from bipolar disorder'". Interview with Matt Lauer, www.today.com. August 31, 2004.

topic: Dramatic, Wave, Mood, Mood Disorders

There are no reasons for my photographs, nor any rules; all depends on the mood of the moment.

- Jeanloup Sieff

topic: Moments, Reason, Mood, Same Love

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

topic: Writing, Way, Mood

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

topic: Depression, Bad Mood, Mood

movies have mirrored our moods and myths since the century began. They have taken on some of the work of religion.

- Jennifer Stone

topic: Movie, Taken, Mood

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 specific moment is what drives it.

- Jimmy Page

source: Source: www.guernicamag.com

topic: Spontaneity, Moments, Mood

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 Drinkwater

source: John Drinkwater (1922). “The Lyric: An Essay”

topic: Kind, Failing, Mood

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 Drinkwater

source: John Drinkwater (1922). “The Lyric: An Essay”, p.8, Library of Alexandria

topic: Art, Men, Mood

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

topic: Jobs, Needs, Mood

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.

topic: Events, Nervous, Mood

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

topic: Ruins, Mood, Tense, Money Lenders, Present Tense

But the moods could be contagious. He didn't need one right now.

- Josephine Humphreys

source: Josephine Humphreys (2000). “The Fireman's Fair”, p.50, Penguin

topic: Empathy, Needs, Mood

I have many moods, and there is no objective reality. And I kind of live by that.

- Juliana Hatfield

topic: Reality, Kind, Mood, Objective Reality

I'm gonna be so mad when my mood elevators wear off.

- Karen Walker

topic: Mad, Mood, Elevators

In nearly all ballads, the words set the mood and meaning, while the music intensifies or enhances them.

- Kate Smith

topic: Mood, Ballads

Meanings, moods, the whole scale of our inner experience, finds in nature the 'correspondences' through which we may know our boundless selves.

- Kathleen Raine

source: Kathleen Raine (1989). “Selected Poems”, p.6, SteinerBooks

topic: Self, May, Mood

I believe that any art communicates what you're in the mood to receive.

- Larry Rivers

topic: Art, Believe, Mood

I am a believer that color affects people's moods.

- Lilly Pulitzer

topic: Color, People, Mood

Everybody knew that being dead could put you in a terrible mood.

- Luis Alberto Urrea

source: Luis Alberto Urrea (2006). “The Hummingbird's Daughter: A Novel”, p.8, Hachette UK

topic: Mood, Terrible

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

topic: Bad Mood, Sometimes, Mood

Women have a way of contorting things sometimes. We all have our moods, ups and downs.

- Malin Akerman

topic: Way, Sometimes, Mood

To create well I have to be in a good mood, happy and cool.

- Marc Newson

topic: Europe, Good Mood, Mood

Don't wait until you're 'in the mood.' Get into the mood by writing.

- Margaret Atwood

topic: Writing, Waiting, Mood

Clouds suit my mood just fine.

- Marie Lu

source: Marie Lu (2013). “Champion: A Legend Novel”, p.156, Penguin

topic: Clouds, Suits, Mood

I have mood poisoning. Must be something I hate.

- Marilyn Manson

topic: Hate, Mood, Pun

It's not always easy to distinguish between existentialism and a bad mood.

- Matthew Woodring Stover

source: Matthew Woodring Stover (2008). “Blade of Tyshalle”, p.992, Del Rey

topic: Bad Mood, Existentialism, Mood

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

topic: Humble, Noble, Mood

Sometimes I can be tactful and sometimes not. It all depends on the mood I'm in.

- Melanie Brown

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Sometimes, Mood

Guard your good mood.

- Meryl Streep

topic: Good Mood, Intriguing, Mood

You are affected by the surroundings, the mood of people, by confidence. I am no different.

- Michael Owen

topic: People, Different, Mood

A book, unlike any other friend, will wait, not only upon the hour but upon the mood.

- Myrtle Reed

topic: Book, Waiting, Mood

The mood of the '50s is like today.

- Nancy Peters

source: "City Lights' silver lining", Publishers Weekly, July 14, 2003.

topic: Today, Mood

Death should take me while I am in the mood.

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

source: Nathaniel Hawthorne (1858). “The Blithedale romance: By Nathaniel Hawthorne”, p.39

topic: Death, Mood, Should

The way that words mutate reminds me of fashions in music. The word--the note--is a constant. But the setting and chord in which it occurs alters with the mood of a nation from major to minor, from the assertive to the mournful and foreboding.

- Neal Ascherson

source: Neal Ascherson (1988). “Games with Shadows”, Hudson Annex

topic: Fashion, Way, Mood, Foreboding

I'm very finicky about when I'm in the right mood to write. So most days, I find some excuse not to do anything.

- Ned Beauman

topic: Writing, Excuse, Mood

Become aware of what you are thinking and you will recognize a law between your mood and your surrounding circumstances.

- Neville Goddard

topic: Thinking, Law Of Attraction, Mood

How about we talk about your love life instead?" "Why? Are you in the mood to be depressed?

- Nicholas Sparks

topic: Love Life, Mood

I'm in the mood for another Moonstruck experience, for another romantic comedy.

- Norman Jewison

source: "Profile and Interview: Norman Jewison". Interview with Erika Hernandez, www.aboutfilm.com. January, 2004.

topic: Comedy, Moonstruck, Mood

Apparently I wasn't in the mood to listen to myself.

- Obert Skye

topic: Mood

Ruy-Sanchez's works of fiction are always amazing: adventure, poetry and intelligence in a new geometry of words... His writing has nerve and agility, his intelligence is sharp without being cruel, his mood is sympathetic without complicity.

- Octavio Paz

topic: Writing, Adventure, Mood

The mood of the 80s - Get what you can, can what you get, and sit on the can.

- Patricia Schroeder

topic: Mood, 80s

I don't wait for moods - you'd never get anything done if you did.

- Pearl S. Buck

topic: Waiting, Done, Mood

You create your own decoration. You choose your color, you choose your mood. ... If you are depressed, you put some bright yellow and suddenly you are happy.

- Philippe Starck

topic: Yellow, Color, Mood, Decoration, Decor

Everyone is a Wordsworth in certain moods, and every traveler seeks out places that every traveler has missed.

- Pico Iyer

topic: Travel, Wordsworth, Mood

I like to be comfortable, and don't like to be cold, and I don't like to wear anything I'm not in the mood for.

- Rachel Bilson

topic: Cold, Mood

Music is extremely important to have on photo shoots - it brings the mood.

- Raquel Zimmermann

topic: Important, Mood, Music Is

You have to have the right atmosphere, really be in the right mood to really fully enjoy a Cohiba.

- Raul Julia

topic: Atmosphere, Mood, Enjoy

The trick is to be grateful when your mood is high and graceful when it is low.

- Richard Carlson

source: Richard Carlson (1998). “Don't Worry, Make Money: Spiritual and Practical Ways to Create Abundance and More Fun in Your Life”, Hyperion Books

topic: Grateful, Mood, Lows

All paintings start out of a mood, out of a relationship with things or people, out of a complete visual impression

- Richard Diebenkorn

topic: People, Painting, Mood

You're in an awfully good mood," he observed. "Was there a sale at Khakis-R-Us?

- Richelle Mead

topic: Good Mood, Mood

Type is saying things to us all the time. Typefaces express a mood, an atmosphere. They give words a certain coloring.

- Rick Poynor

source: "Helvetica". Documentary, www.imdb.com. 2007.

topic: Giving, Atmosphere, Mood, Helvetica, Typefaces

I try to have a mood or a rhythm for a chapter,

- Robert Caro

topic: Trying, Mood, Chapters

Leaves and bark, leaves and bark, To lean against and hear in the dark. Petals I may have once pursued. Leaves are all my darker mood.

- Robert Frost

topic: Dark, May, Mood

The winding down of summer puts me in a heavy philosophical mood.

- Robert Fulghum

topic: Summer, Philosophical, Mood, Winding Down

There is no escape from yesterday because yesterday has deformed us, or been deformed by us. The mood is of no importance. Deformation has taken place.

- Samuel Beckett

topic: Taken, Yesterday, Mood

How we see the world changes all the time. It all depends on our mood.

- Sarah Addison Allen

topic: World, Mood

I am a contradictory mess but I see it as my prerogative to change my mood like the weather.

- Shirley Manson

topic: Weather, Mood, Contradictory, Prerogative

I always choose music based on whatever the scene calls for, or whatever my mood is supposed to be.

- Sinqua Walls

topic: Mood, Scene

I recognize that knitting can improve my mood in trying circumstances

- Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

topic: Knitting, Trying, Mood

Dreams, remembered or not, can color our mood for a good part of the day.

- Stephen LaBerge

topic: Dream, Color, Mood

Addiction isnt about substance - you arent addicted to the substance, you are addicted to the alteration of mood that the substance brings.

- Susan Cheever

topic: Addiction, Substance, Mood, Alterations

I was in a bad mood when I wrote that.

- Thomas Frank

topic: Bad Mood, Mood

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

- Thomas Mann

source: "The Magic Mountain". Book by Thomas Mann. Chapter 7, 1924.

topic: Time, Hours, Mood

Those who are compelled to paint by force, without being in the necessary mood, can produce only ungainly works, because this profession requires an unruffled temper.

- Titian

topic: Mood, Paint, Produce

Also, I just think of Draco and he gets me in the right mood. He just keeps getting worse and worse.

- Tom Felton

topic: Thinking, Mood, Draco

My doctor says, 'You've got one of the hardest ones to treat because it's not bipolar, it's not up and down, you're always just about a quart low in the mood department,

- Trent Reznor

topic: Doctors, Bipolar, Mood

You don't get into the mood to create – it's discipline.

- Twyla Tharp

topic: Discipline, Mood

An author who waits for the right 'mood' will soon find that 'moods' get fewer and fewer until they cease altogether.

- Vera Brittain

source: Vera Brittain (1947). “On becoming a writer”

topic: Waiting, Mood

I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.

- Virginia Woolf

topic: Sky, Mood

But then anyone who's worth anything reads just what he likes, as the mood takes him, and with extravagant enthusiasm.

- Virginia Woolf

topic: Enthusiasm, Likes, Mood

My practice schedule is not constant and changes a lot and depends on my moods also.

- Viswanathan Anand

topic: Practice, Schedules, Mood

I'm never in the mood to eat or drink when I get to a show. I'm just too nerved out.

- Yelawolf

topic: Drink, Mood, Shows

The mood in the market is one of a high level of caution. When you get some selling coming in, it's almost like a chain reaction - - it builds on itself.

- Albert Goldman

topic: Levels, Mood, Selling, Chain Reactions

Because sloths' metabolisms are so slow, they don't exhibit many external signs of stress and it can be hard to determine their mood.

- Ann Burton

source: Source: www.buzzfeed.com

topic: Stress, Sloth, Mood, Metabolism

I just sing the song and I sing it with conviction, meaning and I get into the mood of every song I do no matter how much time I have in between.

- B.J. The Chicago Kid

source: Source: youknowigotsoul.com

topic: Song, Matter, Mood

Musically, I think I change music like I change clothes! What I listen to on a day to day basis is really contingent upon my mood and what's going on in my life.

- Demetria McKinney

source: Source: youknowigotsoul.com

topic: Thinking, Clothes, Mood

Above all, a horse should never be chastised out of foul mood or anger, but always with complete dispassion.

- Francois Robichon de La Gueriniere

topic: Horse, Mood, Should

I'd say 80% of my activity is engaged in the interpretation of social mood.

- Hugh Hendry

topic: Mood, Social, Interpretation

I am still every age that I have been. Because I was once a child, I am always a child. Because I was once a searching adolescent, given to moods and ecstasies, these are still part of me, and always will be.

- Madeleine L'Engle

topic: Children, Age, Mood

I think the overall mood of the music informs the artwork, but I've found that good lyrics can be inspirational, too.

- Neil Farber

topic: Thinking, Good Lyric, Mood

I have my moods, but I can always see something beautiful.

- Pat Steir

topic: Beautiful, Mood, Something Beautiful

To me, that's what music is: creating a mood, and taking the listener to the place that you're going.

- Paul Rodgers

topic: Creating, Mood, Music Is

I would like to think of Badfinger's music as mood music. Something with a bit of feeling, whether it's hard or soft.

- Peter Ham

topic: Thinking, Feelings, Mood

I'm constantly changing and evolving so I don't abide by just one certain style. I like to look at my personal style as an extension of my mood.

- Stella Hudgens

topic: Style, Mood, Evolve, Personal Style

I like to look at my personal style as an extension of my mood that day.

- Stella Hudgens

topic: Style, Looks, Mood

Anybody can put sexual content to music, but I feel like I took it to a next level where it's a mood or feel.

- Willie Taylor

topic: Next, Levels, Mood

I really write emotionally so whatever mood I'm in, or if a chord hits me a certain way that's what I'll go off of.

- Zac Farro

topic: Writing, Way, Mood

The essential component of being a DJ is setting the mood; it's playing to the context. So that if you're not able to adapt from one context to another, then you're not a DJ.

- A-Trak

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Mood

Things flow better and everyone is in a better mood because they're like, 'I got my point across and it sounds like I want it to sound'

- Adam Faulkner

topic: Mood

It's scientifically proven that chocolate improves your mood. There is something in it that can make you happier and I stand by that theory. Milk chocolate. It's so good!

- Odeya Rush

source: Source: www.justjared.com

topic: Chocolate, Milk, Mood

When (Big) Walter was in the right mood, he could be the most ferocious, the most inventive, the most dangerous harp player I ever heard.

- Charlie Musselwhite

topic: Player, Mood, Harps

I am still mostly a moron, I do get into bad moods, I am not a perfected being.

- Dan Harris

source: Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

topic: Bad Mood, Mood, Moron

Most of all people respond to a film tackling grave subjects that question and go against the prevailing mood.

- Philippe Claudel

source: Source: www.indiewire.com

topic: People, Film, Mood, Tackling

Beauty has as many meanings as man has moods.

- Eavan Boland

topic: Men, Mood

Vogue is not a practical magazine, it provides sensations, feeling, moods, you like the photos.

- Franca Sozzani

source: Source: wwd.com

topic: Feelings, Magazines, Mood

I'm a car guy! I have a Ford Escape with Ecoboost for most days. On other days I love to drive my 356A, my early 911, or my '72 Dino GT. It all depends on my mood, what road, how far, and who's with me.

- Freeman Thomas

source: Source: inhabitat.com

topic: Car, Guy, Mood

Don't force yourself to go party if you're not in the mood.

- Hannah Hart

source: Source: www.mtv.com

topic: Party, Mood, Force

I don't place too much importance on words. It's always the last thing I do because I'm definitely more interested in mood.

- Jack Tatum

source: Source: williamlittlesociology.wordpress.com

topic: Too Much, Lasts, Mood

I don't work off lights and angles; I work off emotions. A mood that I create.

- Terry Richardson

topic: Light, Emotion, Mood

For me, mood is something you have to ignore. I try to put myself in that position when I'm shooting and try to react the way I would. I try not to play funny if it doesn't call for that.

- Jimmi Simpson

source: "EXCLUSIVE: Jimmi Simpson Talks Stay Alive". MovieWeb interview, movieweb.com. March 22, 2006.

topic: Trying, Mood

There is something more to "reality" than just the tangible. There is also mood, and you cannot skip that.

- Vilmos Zsigmond

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: Reality, Tangible, Mood

To convey one’s mood in seventeen syllables is very diffic

- John Cooper Clarke

topic: Mood, Seventeen, Syllables

I don't have a particular style I like, it just changes daily, depending on the mood or the situation. I don't have a style chosen.

- Yesung

source: "Date with Super Junior - Interview with Yesung". "Date with" Magazine Interview, Volume 1 (translated), www.twitlonger.com. May 29, 2013.

topic: Style, Mood, Situation

Many of our threats are imaginary. The habits and even obsessions that we develop to keep them away are destructive and undermine our moods constantly.

- Liz Miller

source: Liz Miller (2010). “Mood Mapping: Plot your way to emotional health and happiness”, p.82, Pan Macmillan

topic: Obsession, Mood, Habit

There's nothing better than listening to music that compliments my mood.

- Jasmine V

topic: Listening, Compliment, Mood

When you choose to be a loving person, it's magical how love comes back to you and brightens someone's day, changing your mood and that of the world.

- Jason Mraz

source: Source: www.timeout.com

topic: World, Mood, Loving Person

In real life, when someone's partner calls them, they can tell from the first word their partner says what their mood is.

- Abbas Kiarostami

source: "They Should Be Grateful: An Interview with Abbas Kiarostami". Interview with Zachary Wigon, filmmakermagazine.com. February 13, 2013.

topic: Real, Firsts, Mood

There is no proper time and place for reading. When the mood for reading comes, one can read anywhere

- Lin Yutang

topic: Reading, Mood, Proper Time

When our honor becomes greater than our moods, that is where transformation happens

- Stephen Covey

topic: Honor, Transformation, Mood

We not not our feelings. We are not our moods. We not even our thoughts.

- Stephen Covey

topic: Feelings, Mood, Our Thoughts

There's no doubt that I do have extremes of mood that are greater than just about anybody else I know.

- Stephen Fry

source: "Stephen Fry: my long battle with manic depression" by Owen Gibson, www.theguardian.com. July 21, 2006.

topic: Doubt, Mood, Extremes

Who holds a power but newly gained is ever stern of mood.

- Aeschylus

source: Aeschylus (1873). “The Tragedies of Æschylos: A New Translation, with a Biographical Essay, and an Appendix of Rhymed Choral Odes”, p.94

topic: Power, Mood

I started writing seriously when I was about 12. I am always in the mood.

- Stephen King

source: Interview with Phil Konstantin, americanindian.net. July 1987.

topic: Writing, Mood

If a principle exists it must be immutable, for that is what a principle is - a truth standing apart from the mood of the times.

- Jeff Cooper

source: Jeff Cooper (2006). “Principles of Personal Defense: Revised Edition”, p.8, Paladin Press

topic: Principles, Mood, Standing Apart

The mood, it is fair to say, was reasonably tense. As a result of the conclusion of the ballot, most members are happy that this matter has now been determined.

- Chris Hayes

topic: Matter, Determined, Mood

A funny line can never exist on its own. It needs to be surrounded by mood and circumstances.

- Lorrie Moore

source: "'I would like to live in that year forever.'". Interview with Michael Hafford, logger.believermag.com. April 24, 2014.

topic: Needs, Lines, Mood

My moods are continuously shifting like the weather.

- Pema Chodron

source: Pema Chodron (2002). “The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times”, p.22, Shambhala Publications

topic: Weather, Shifting, Mood

You won't see me in a better mood than 4:00 in the morning on my way to work.

- Christina Ricci

source: "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. June 5, 2012.

topic: Morning, Way, Mood

I usually don't write about my life right when it happens. I process it, and I store it away. Then, when I get in the mood I pull the stuff back out.

- Lucinda Williams

source: Source: www.motherjones.com

topic: Writing, Stuff, Mood

We fear our neighbor's hostile mood because we are afraid that this mood will lead him to penetrate our secrets.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

topic: Secret, Neighbor, Mood, Penetrate

I listen to a wide array of music, all depends on the mood I'm in at the time.

- G-Eazy

source: Source: www.axs.com

topic: Mood, Depends, Wide

When one being gets into the mood of life he can bring millions to life. When one fellow gets into the suicidal mood, he can kill thousands along with him.

- Swami Nithyananda

topic: Suicidal, Mood, Fellows

You know, if I'm in a bad mood, I always look at the chessboard, just to find something that can cheer me up.

- Garry Kasparov

source: Source: www.businessinsider.com

topic: Cheer, Bad Mood, Mood

I act when I’m not in the mood.

- T. Harv Eker

topic: Mood

I don't even remember why I called myself an idiot. I can be very harshly critical of myself. It depends on my mood, and obviously it depends on where I am in my life. Yes, embracing myself - I'm working on that.

- Madonna Ciccone

source: Source: www.independent.ie

topic: Idiot, Remember, Mood

Sebald, Naipaul, and Joyce are three of my biggest influences, all of them for their formal freedom and their ability to create mood. So those comparisons are immensely flattering and, of course, unearned.

- Teju Cole

source: Source: www.3ammagazine.com

topic: Three, Influence, Mood, Joyce

Om is a living phenomenon and it has its own mood. Depending on its mood the meaning will be revealed to you.

- Amit Ray

topic: Mood, Phenomenon

Smiling resets your mood.

- Joel Osteen

topic: Smile, Mood, Reset

Tolerance should, strictly speaking, be only a passing mood; it ought to lead to acknowledgment and appreciation. To tolerate a person is to affront him.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

topic: Appreciation, Tolerance, Mood

We need to create a mood where it is everywhere thought morally right for as many people as possible to acquire capital.

- Margaret Thatcher

source: Margaret Thatcher (1989). “The revival of Britain: speeches on home and European affairs, 1975-1988”

topic: People, Needs, Mood

I feel bad about that, that I worship celebrities... but their moods create weather.

- Maria Bamford

topic: Weather, Worship, Mood