Mood Quotes - Page 9

• So far as I am concerned, I am not at all aware that there indeed exists a serious side as well to my cartoons drawn in an inspired mood of mischievous abandon.

  R. K. Laxman

  Cartoon, Sides, Serious

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• Marvelous as may be the power of my dog to understand my moods, deathless as his affection and fidelity, his mental state is as unsolved a mystery to me as it was to my remotest ancestor.

  William James

  Dog, May, Affection

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• It is my impression that 'pain-killing' drugs improve the patient's mood rather than take away the pain.

  John E. Sarno

  Pain, Drug, Patient

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• It's really a lot of fun to see that this music can actually survive, that it can be concert music. My solo shows are already going along that path. You have the freedom to basically push to party, or you can tell a story from nothing with soundscapes, moving images, to a real party mood. At some concerts, people get out of their seats and start dancing after a while.

  Pantha du Prince

  Fun, Real, Party

  "Pantha du Prince’s Bell Hooks". Interview with Nathan Reese, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 15, 2013.

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

  Andrew W.K.

  Attitude, Term, Going Through Changes

  Interview with Ian Cohen, pitchfork.com. September 5, 2012.

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• I say things, like every other parent, that reminds you of your own parents. One thing I do know about being a parent, you understand why your father was in a bad mood a lot.

  Adam Sandler

  Father, Parent, Bad Mood

  "Adam Sandler Interview GROWN UPS". Press conference, collider.com. June 21, 2010.

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• When you're in a good mood, bring up the past. When you're in a bad mood, stick to the present. And when you're not feeling emotional at all, it's time to talk about the future.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Emotional, Past, Feelings

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• I write most of my songs when I'm in a bad mood.

  Trent Reznor

  Song, Writing, Bad Mood

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

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• 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

  Goes On, Painting, Week

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• Nature in one of her beneficent moods has ordained that even death has some antidote to its own terrors.

  Bram Stoker

  Terror, Antidote

  Bram Stoker (2016). “Dracula (Fidia Classics)”, p.121, Bram Stoker

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• There are some sequences in films that I think work filmicly, that stand out to me, but thats much more to do with the staging and the cutting and the mood of the thing as a sequence, the way everything comes together.

  Roger Deakins

  Cutting, Thinking, Together

  "Famed Cinematographer Roger Deakins Talks Coens, Storytelling, ‘Prisoners’". Interview with Anne Thompson, www.indiewire.com. January 13, 2014.

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• Film noir is not a genre. It is not defined, as are the western and gangster genres, by conventions of setting and conflict, but rather by the more subtle qualities of tone and mood. It is a film 'noir', as opposed to the possible variants of film gray or film off-white.

  Paul Schrader

  White, Quality, Noir

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• Our time and attention is scarce. Art is not that important to us, no matter what we might like to believe... 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. Keep in mind that books, like art museums, are not always geared to the desires of the reader. Maybe we think we are supposed to like tough books, but are we? Who says? Many writers (and art museums) produce for quite a small subsample of the... public.

  Tyler Cowen

  Art, Believe, Book

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• Landscape is my religion. ...God in a green legend, I lean over the pool In a testament of leaves. I dangle my twinkling mood Before me in a cool cave roofed with branches And floored with a skin of water.

  Norman MacCaig

  Water, Skins, Caves

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

  Andy Jenkins

  Years, Good Mood, Havens

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• One thing that feeds into the way you experience the social world is your mood - and one thing that affects your mood is the weather.

  Leonard Mlodinow

  Weather, World, Way

  "Leonard Mlodinow On Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior". Interview with Debra Ollivier, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 7, 2012.

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• The expression of a man's face is commonly a help to his thoughts, or glossary on his speech; but the countenance of Newman Noggs, in his ordinary moods, was a problem which no stretch of ingenuity could solve.

  Charles Dickens

  Character, Men, Expression

  Charles Dickens (1870). “Novels”, p.12

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• One thing about this face was very strange and startling. You could not look upon it in its most cheerful mood without feeling that it had some extraordinary capacity of expressing terror. It was not on the surface. It was in no one feature that it lingered. You could not take the eyes or mouth, or lines upon the cheek, and say, if this or that were otherwise, it would not be so. Yet there it always lurked-something for ever dimly seen, but ever there, and never absent for a moment.

  Charles Dickens

  Character, Eye, Interesting

  Charles Dickens (1868). “Barnaby Rudge, And, Hard Times: With Ten Illustrations”, p.26

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• Personalities are like impressionistic paintings. At a distance, each person is 'all of a piece'; up close, each is a bewildering complexity of moods, cognitions, and motives.

  Theodore Millon

  Distance, Personality, Pieces

  Theodore Millon, Roger Dale Davis (1996). “Disorders of personality: DSM-IV and beyond”, Wiley

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• One of man's important mistakes, one which must be remembered, is his illusion in regard to his I. Man such as we know him, the 'man-machine,' the man who cannot 'do,' and with whom and through whom everything 'happens,' cannot have a permanent and single I. His I changes as quickly as his thoughts, feelings and moods, and he makes a profound mistake in considering himself always one and the same person; in reality he is always a different person, not the one he was a moment ago.

  G. I. Gurdjieff

  Mistake, Reality, Men

  "In Search of the Miraculous: Fragments of an Unknown Teaching". Book by Pyotr Ouspensky, 1949.

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• Poetry reproduces an indefinable mood that is more amorous than love itself. Venus is not so beautiful all naked, alive, and panting, as she is here in Virgil.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Love, Beautiful, Poetry

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.645, Stanford University Press

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• The most natural way you would attempt to cope with something inside you that is affecting your moods and your energy levels is to intervene with chemicals to help and because medical science hasn't come up with pharmaceuticals that do particularly well you tend to reach for the chemicals that are outside the Pharma counter, i.e. narcotics and alcohol because they can guarantee your mood more or less.

  Stephen Fry

  Alcohol, Energy, Guarantees

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. December 8, 2009.

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• When I have just sat down and tried to write the lyrics of a song, usually about half of it sounds like bullshit. I just have to go away from something and come back to it again later. I do a lot of editing and switching around and putting little pieces together to get the right mood and personality, and it takes me forever to get a song finished.

  Matt Berninger

  Song, Writing, Editing

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• For nothing keeps a poet
  In his high singing mood
  Like unappeasable hunger
  For unattainable food.

  Joyce Kilmer

  Singing, Unattainable, Hunger

  Joyce Kilmer (1968). “Joyce Kilmer: Memoir and poems”

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• The personality of the artist, at first a cry or a cadence or a mood and then a fluid, and lambent narrative, finally refines itself out of existence, impersonalises itself, so to speak. The aesthetic image in the dramatic form is life purified in and reprojected from the human imagination. The mystery of aesthetic like that of material creation is accomplished. The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.

  James Joyce

  God, Art, Imagination

  A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man ch. 5 (1916).

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