Mood Quotes - Page 5

• When you're a lead role, I'm learning that you set a tone for the movie in a way, like a director does, or like other actors do. But it seems like you set a mood on set.

  Kit Harington

  Directors, Doe, Roles

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• A man likes to believe that he is the master of his soul. But as long as he is unable to control his moods and emotions, or to be conscious of the myriad secret ways in which unconscious factors insinuate themselves into his arrangements and decisions, he is certainly not his own master.

  Carl Jung

  Believe, Men, Long

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• I didnt like being reminded about how self-absorbed i was. I wanted to be over this, done with this. I didnt want to live in a broken world or a broken me. I wasnt trying to weasel out of anything. I just wasnt in the mood of being on the earth that night. I get like that sometimes when it rains, or when i see certain sad movies.

  Donald Miller

  Rain, Night, Self

  Donald Miller (2012). “Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality”, p.23, Thomas Nelson Inc

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

  Heinrich Heine

  Clever, Gazelles, Gentle

  Heinrich Heine (1866). “The Poems of Heine: Complete”, p.68

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• It’s almost just a difference of mood as to whether I would describe myself one way or the other. I think I share that experience with most people.

  Jasper Johns

  Thinking, Differences, People

  "New Again: Jasper Johns". Interview with Philip Smith, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 9, 2015.

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• I think weather affects my mood a lot more than I thought, and I like to be in bad moods sometimes.

  Ellie Kemper

  Thinking, Weather, Bad Mood

  Source: www.gq.com

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• Children are holy and pure. Even those of bandits and crocodiles belong among the angels.... They must not be turned into a plaything of one's mood, first to be tenderly kissed, then rabidly stomped at.

  Anton Chekhov

  Children, Angel, Firsts

  Letter to his brother, A.P. Chekhov, January 2, 1889.

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• What I've always found interesting in gardens is looking at what people choose to plant there. What they put in. What they leave out. One small choice and then another, and soon there is a mood, an atmosphere, a series of limitations, a world.

  Helen Humphreys

  Garden, People, Interesting

  Helen Humphreys (2003). “The Lost Garden: A Novel”, p.180, W. W. Norton & Company

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• We have discovered that exercise is strongly correlated with increased brain mass, better cognition, mood regulation, and new cell growth.

  Eric Jensen

  Exercise, Cells, Brain

  Eric Jensen (2005). “Teaching with the Brain in Mind”, p.3, ASCD

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• Of course my moods change, but the average is serenity. I have a firm faith in art, a firm confidence in its being a powerful stream which carries a man to a harbor, though he himself must do his bit too; at all events, I think it such a great blessing when a man has found his work that I cannot count myself among the unfortunate. I mean, I may be in certain relatively great difficulties, and there may be gloomy days in my life, but I shouldn't like to be counted among the unfortunate, nor would it be correct if I were.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Art, Powerful, Mean

  Vincent van Gogh (1971). “Van Gogh's "diary"; the artist's life in his own words and art”

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• Those women who had gone out with Germans were grabbed and treated very badly, often shaved totally bald so that everyone could see who they were. Some were taken prisoners. There had been so much suffering during the war because of the betrayal of those collaborators, so many killed and hurt because of what they had done to families, that the mood for revenge against the traitors was very high. It was not right, but it was understandable.

  Diet Eman

  Hurt, Revenge, Betrayal

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• Unless you're fond of hollering you don't make great conversations on a running cycle. Instead you spend your time being aware of things and meditating on them. On sights and sounds, on the mood of the weather and things remembered, on the machine and the countryside you're in, thinking about things at great leisure and length without being hurried and without feeling you're losing time.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Running, Thinking, Sight

  Robert M. Pirsig (2009). “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values”, p.8, Harper Collins

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• The only and absolute perfect union of two is when a baby hangs suspended in its mother's womb, like a tiny madman in a padded cell, attached to her, feeling her blood and hormones, and moods play through its body, feeling her feelings.

  Diane Ackerman

  Mother, Baby, Cells

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “A Natural History of Love: Author of the National Bestseller A Natural History of the Senses”, p.98, Vintage

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• Decade after decade, artists came to paint the light of Provincetown, and comparisons were made to the lagoons of Venice and the marshes of Holland, but then the summer ended and most of the painters left, and the long dingy undergarment of the gray New England winter, gray as the spirit of my mood, came down to visit.

  Norman Mailer

  Summer, Winter, Artist

  Norman Mailer (2013). “Tough Guys Don't Dance: A Novel”, p.11, Random House

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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

  Luck, Saws, Casino Royale

  Ian Fleming (1961). “gilt-edged bonds”

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• Doth Nature draw me, 'tis because, Unto my seeming, there doth lurk A lawlessness about her laws, More mood than purpose in her work.

  Alfred Austin

  Nature, Law, Purpose

  Alfred Austin (1885). “At the Gate of the Convent: And Other Poems”

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• 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

  Taken, Yesterday, Importance

  Samuel Beckett, Georges Duthuit (1965). “Proust”

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• Our love of art is often quite temporary, dependent upon our moods, and our love of art is subservient to our demand for a positive self-image. How we look at art should account for those imperfections and work around them.

  Tyler Cowen

  Art, Self, Imperfection

  Tyler Cowen (2008). “Discover Your Inner Economist: Use Incentives to Fall in Love, Survive Your Next Meeting, and Motivate Your Den tist”, p.41, Penguin

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• So how do people listen to music? How do the broad masses listen to it? Apparently they have to be able to cling to pictures and 'moods' of some kind. If they can't imagine a green field, a blue sky or something of the sort, then they are out of their depth.

  Anton Webern

  Blue, Sky, Green Fields

  Anton Webern (1975). “The path to the new music”, European Amer Music Dist Corp

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

  James Elkins

  Inarticulate, Projection, Viewers

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

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• The muddy moods of oil paints are the painter's muddy humors, and its brilliant transformations are the painter's unexpected discoveries.

  James Elkins

  Oil, Discovery, Brilliant

  James Elkins (2004). “What Painting Is”, p.5, Routledge

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• Painting is an unspoken and largely unrecognized dialogue, where paint speaks silently in masses and colors and the artist responds in moods.

  James Elkins

  Artist, Color, Painting

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• You begin by engaging the left hemisphere of the brain with the overall shape, the basic structure of the painting, and then eventually you engage with the colour, with the mood of the painting and then you are entering the activities of the right hemisphere - and it is in the right hemisphere that ideas of space are born, the realization that you are seeing space.

  Guido Molinari

  Ideas, Space, Brain

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• I act when I’m not in the mood.

  T. Harv Eker

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• Exercise is really for the brain, not the body. It affects mood, vitality, alertness, and feelings of well-being.

  John Ratey

  Exercise, Feelings, Brain

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