Sometimes a musical phrase would perfectly sum up The mood of a moment. One of those lovelorn sonatas For wind instruments was… — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
... there had been the two little boys. Now they were gone, too. They loved her and called her and sent her… — Cathleen Schine Copy Share Image
I never felt like that before. Maybe it could be depression, like you get. I can understand how you suffer now when… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
On those days when you don't want to get up, I think, I'm going to get through my entire practice without saying… — Madison Keys Copy Share Image
Children are holy and pure. Even those of bandits and crocodiles belong among the angels… They must not be turned into a… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
So just to be clear, Microsoft has created a new operating system that isn't properly compatible with a best-selling, still perfectly useable… — Robert Peston Copy Share Image
Depression moods lead, almost invariably, to accidents. But, when they occur, our mood changes again, since the accident shows we can draw… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
Those women who had gone out with Germans were grabbed and treated very badly, often shaved totally bald so that everyone could… — Diet Eman Copy Share Image
“Moods are not to be confused with emotions. Moods will dispose you to having an emotion. Certain moods you're more likely to… — John Rogers Searle Copy Share Image
Establishing mood through pictorial means is the director Ridley Scott's most notable talent. There may be no working director more accomplished at… — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
There are ancient and modern poems which breathe, in their entirety and in every detail, the divine breath of irony. In such… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Film noir is not a genre. It is not defined, as are the western and gangster genres, by conventions of setting and… — Paul Schrader Copy Share Image
I definitely go through periods where I'm in a particular mood, or there's a consistent imaginative context that I feel I'm in,… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
Brand-image campaigns establish contact with the subconscious of the consumer below the word level. They do this with visual symbols instead of… — Rosser Reeves Copy Share Image
All of us want to see the details of any legislative plan if there's going to be a legislative response, but Congress,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is my secrecy which makes you unhappy, my evasions, my silences. And so I have found a solution. Whenever you get… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
I'm not at all interested in doing clothes for movies or stage, in stage dressing or costuming. Nor can I design lingerie,… — Sonia Rykiel Copy Share Image
Leaders are active instead of reactive, shaping ideas instead of responding to them. Leaders adopt a personal and active attitude toward goals.… — Abraham Zaleznik Copy Share Image
I am absolutely enraptured by the atmosphere of a wreck. A dead ship is the house of a tremendous amount of life-fish… — Jacques Yves Cousteau Copy Share Image
Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence– whether… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
I knew that, without killing the creative mood, I had to keep the balance between my emotional outburst and the merciless discipline… — Mary Wigman Copy Share Image
I like being married to another writer. You get to trade ideas. You get to talk shop. You get to complain. You… — Elaine Equi Copy Share Image
Every once and a while somebody writes a script, but even regardless of what age you are, most of the actors would… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
Psychologically it gets challenging at times to switch into a female character. But the moment I get into the look of Palak,… — Kiku Sharda Copy Share Image
I don't think it's fair - you get married, you give your wife a wedding ring. I think you should give her… — Adam Ferrara Copy Share Image
It's a curious fact about Americans that in their most fiercely patriotic moods they are willing to set aside their Constitution, the… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
I like to think I'm calm. Sometimes I have arrived at the ground in the morning in a bad mood - you're… — Andrew Flintoff Copy Share Image
I believe there is a moment growing up when you build your own mood board. You do a collage - you collect… — Nicolas Ghesquiere Copy Share Image
When we're on set, we kind of joke around, and when we're rehearsing, we change up the scenes and make each other… — Kellan Lutz Copy Share Image
Schiller writes in a letter [to Goethe, 17 December 1795] of a 'poetic mood'. I think I know what he means, I… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“We often say, “I am not very happy. I am not content with the way my life is going. I am not… — Henri J.M. Nouwen Copy Share Image
How often have I actually discovered in myself that enthusiasm raises the artist above himself, how in an ordinary mood one would… — Clara Schumann Copy Share Image
I think happiness is overrated, but joy is the key to the thousands of possible moods we can feel. And when we… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
I probably have a higher opinion of my writing than the average person, at least when I'm in a good mood, but… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
The moods of a river change from hour to hour and day to day. It can be still and serene as a… — Ernie Lyons Copy Share Image
By happiness I mean here a deep sense of flourishing that arises from an exceptionally healthy mind. This is not a mere… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
Mood evidently affects the operation of System 1: when we are uncomfortable and unhappy, we lose touch with our intuition. These findings… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
I wrote at the start that this was a record of hate, and walking there beside Henry towards the evening glass of… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
An artist doesn't depend upon inspiration or have to have it. An artist doesn't depend on mood, certainly not if you're earning… — Michael Ventura Copy Share Image
No poet is required to write in stanzas, or indeed in regular forms at all. Coleridge's 'Dejection: An Ode' has a rhyme… — James Fenton Copy Share Image