Mood Quotes

• Whatever his mood—whether it was gay and breezy, or dark with rage—he had one pervading characteristic: he was purposeful.

  

  Alfred Lansing
  • Mood
  • Characteristic
  • Purposeful

• When my inner mood is positive, I also feel great on the outside.

  

  Liu Wen
  • Great
  • Positive
  • Mood

• I'm currently doing a Soul Pancake show called Top of the Monday, which is basically a good morning news show. It's just me being silly, telling people about good news that's going on in the world, putting them in the mood to start their week.

  

  Zach Anner
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• I love Michael Anthony. We met on set for a shoot and ever since then he has been my guy. We don't do too much conceptualizing - it's usually just a vibe we are feeling based on the wardrobe or mood of the shoot, and we go from there.

  

  Tinashe
  • Guy
  • Feelings
  • Mets

• 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.
  • Mood
  • Room
  • Expensive

• I knew that even though he was way into mood-altering substances and he had this really bad temper that there was something really beautiful inside him. Just because no one else could see it didn't mean it wasn't there.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Mood
  • Temper
  • Substances

• I've probably put my 10,000 hours into writing, but I believe writing well is also greatly influenced by certain intangibles like mood and inspiration.

  

  Bill Loguidice
  • Writing
  • Inspiration
  • Mood

• A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.

  

  Stanley Kubrick
  • Movie
  • Film
  • Feelings

• My mood depends heavily on what happens to me right after I get up.

  

  Marie Brennan
  • Up
  • Mood

• As you work, the mood grows on you. There are certain images which suddenly get hold of me and I really want to do them. But it's true to say that the excitement and possibilities are in the working and obviously can only come in the working.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Working
  • Mood
  • Images

• The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle.

  

  Stanley Kubrick
  • Art
  • Magic
  • Interest

• The process of education is not generally a process of teaching people to think and ask questions. It ... is mostly one of teaching the young what is and getting them into a mood where they will go on keeping it that way.

  

  Elizabeth Hawes
  • Way
  • Education
  • Mood

• 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

• I always wrote the music first, and the music gave me the mood and the lyrics were pretty much put in to give you a map, where that mood came from and where it's going. But my first love was really the music itself, and I guess I've gone back to that.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Music
  • Pretty
  • Lyrics

• The purpose of a work of fiction is to appeal to the lingering after-effects in the reader's mind as differing from, say, the purpose of oratory or philosophy which respectively leave people in a fighting or thoughtful mood.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • People
  • Work
  • Mind

• 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

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

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • 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

• 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

• 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

• I'm doing my best to be mindful about how I'm living: to be kind and patient, and not to impose a bad mood on somebody else. Being mindful is as good a way to be spiritual as anything else.

  

  Deirdre O'Kane
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Spiritual

• I usually run three or four times a week now. Pretty boring, but it's so worth is. It's done wonders for my mood.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Week
  • Run
  • Wonders

• 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

• Food is one part of the experience. And it has to be somewhere between 50 to 60 percent of the dining experience. But the rest counts as well: The mood, the atmosphere, the music, the feeling, the design, the harmony between what you have on the plate and what surrounds the plate.

  

  Alain Ducasse
  • Music
  • Experience
  • Feeling

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