Mood Quotes

• Spatial art does not begin with a poetic mood or idea, but with construction of one or more figures, with the harmonizing of several colors and tones, or with the devaluation of spatial relationships and so on.

  

  Paul Klee
  • Art
  • Relationships
  • Construction

• The live audience is a blind date. The camera is a hungry lover. One wants to be wined and dined and seduced and then decide where the evening will go. The other knows how it wants to be touched, wants it now and can damn well tell if you are lying about it. Both are fickle. Both feel good. Depends on your mood.

  

  Bill Oberst Jr.
  • Audience
  • Blind
  • Lovers

• Chimpanzees, typically, kiss and embrace after fights. They first make eye contact from a distance to see the mood of the others. Then they approach and kiss and embrace.

  

  Frans de Waal
  • Distance
  • Mood
  • Kiss

• I seldom get into the mood of the story. It's acting. I go in, I act, I quit. I don't take anything away from it.

  

  Morgan Freeman
  • Story
  • Mood

• I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again - as I always am when I write.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Mood

• Some of the ideas are kind of inspired by the songs, and I always want to use music to tell the story and give the movie a certain kind of mood. That's always essential to me.

  

  Wes Anderson
  • Song
  • Giving
  • Kind

• I've been playing since I was about 7. I never really used a pick very much. I mean, once in a while, if you're in a festive mood, you might draw a little blood, but nothing significant... But my hands aren't abused, really.

  

  Lindsey Buckingham
  • Mood

• If she was in a teaching mood she wasn't in a hitting mood. Like sneezing and keeping your eyes open, Mrs. H couldn't do both at once.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Teaching
  • Hitting
  • Could Not Do

• Generally, I walk around in a glum mood.

  Colson Whitehead
  • Mood

• We fundamentalists are a pack of mood-loving showoffs. I'm sure the Minor Prophets would have found subject for correction.

  

  Elisabeth Elliot
  • Mood
  • Correction
  • Fundamentalists

• And as I walk round the park I always think, 'Maybe round the corner I am going to find something beautiful.' I always think positively. It is very rare that you find me in a mood that is sad or melancholic.

  

  Sofia Villani Scicolone
  • Mood
  • Parks
  • Positively

• Change the scheme! Alter the mood! Electrify the boys and girls, if you'd be so kind.

  

  Michael Sheen
  • Kind
  • Mood
  • Schemes

• If I'm in a rotten mood, I stay in and watch television.

  

  Cilla Black
  • Mood

• Often, women as little girls are sent off on a track for them to live a perfect life and be a perfect woman. Not for boys, who can be themselves with their mood and their temper.

  

  Claire Denis
  • Life
  • Women
  • Live

• What is literature but the expression of moods by the vehicle of symbol and incident?

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Literature
  • Expression
  • Vehicle

• I mean, it’s not as though Radio 4 can put a person in a good mood; all it does is make me feel depressed about the economy and calcify my belief that everything I’m feeding my family is poisoning them. Still, I stick with it because it helps me have something to talk about at dinner parties.

  

  Adele Parks
  • Family
  • Economy
  • Radio

• 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
  • Problem
  • Hair
  • Sexuality

• I have to get up the fitness level, sing a lot, practice, get in the mood, and generally do lots of rehearsal. Get your body and mind ready.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Practice

• It all has to do with the director, the captain of the ship. He sets the pace, the mood. If the director is quiet, the set is quiet. If the director is loud, then everybody has to be louder to be heard.

  

  Eva Marie Saint
  • Director
  • Ship
  • Loud

• Try not to catch a girl when she's not in a great mood, tired or distracted.

  

  Elizabeth Tan
  • Girl
  • Mood
  • Distracted

• 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
  • Mood
  • Tolerance
  • Acknowledgement

• When you think about being a director, you think about writing stories, putting the camera in interesting places and directing the actors to get your vision, but it's hard to imagine even this process... sitting here nine months later talking about the film and talking about it 20 times in one day. You don't even think about the part where you come to the set every morning and everyone's looking at you to see your mood in order to see what the day is going to be like, and the influence that you wield.

  

  Cary Fukunaga
  • Writing
  • Interesting
  • Morning

• 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
  • Perfect
  • Feelings

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

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • Mood

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