Mood Quotes

• 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

• The piano is always true to me. In times of despair, happiness, and joy, its mood is always my own.

  

  Bradley Joseph
  • Joy
  • Mood
  • Despair

• 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

• 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

• So writing a song is much harder than doing a classical piece for me, because in a classical piece, I can just let the mood dictate what's going to happen.

  

  Glenn Danzig
  • Song
  • Mood
  • Dictates

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

  

  Michael Sheen
  • Kind
  • Mood
  • Schemes

• 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

• 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

• Generally, I walk around in a glum mood.

  Colson Whitehead
  • Mood

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

  

  Cilla Black
  • Mood

• 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

• 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

• 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 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

• 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

• 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
  • Live
  • Women

• 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

• 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

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

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • Mood

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

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Literature
  • Expression
  • Vehicle

• 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 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

• Prayers born out of murmuring are always dangerous. When, therefore, we are in a discontented mood, let'us take care what we cry for, lest God give it to us, and thereby punish us.

  

  William Mackergo Taylor
  • Giving
  • Prayer
  • Dangerous

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