Humor is my default mode.

Being efficient without regard to effectiveness is the default mode of the universe.

— Tim Ferriss

“Humour is our 'default mode', if you like: we do not have to switch it on deliberately, and we cannot switch it off.”

— Kate Fox

One of the characteristics of New Labour - and Miliband is irredeemably of that species - is that, in the guise of a new…

— Martin Jacques

The default mode of modern writing about art is to despise any notion of singularity as so much overheated genius-fetishism.

— Simon Schama

I seem most instinctively to believe in the human value of creative writing, whether in the form of verse or fiction, as a mode…

— John Updike

The love of their country is with them only a mode of flattering its master; as soon as they think that master can no…

— Marquis De Custine

I know when it's getting close to game time, I create a different playlist for each and every game. Before the game, to game…

— Cam Newton

I think the way the audience takes the Indian film-star is a little different from the way the audience takes the Western star there.…

— Anonymous

When I'm at home, I am in full Dad mode, and I love it.

— Ant Middleton

If we're given a number of circumstances to deal with, the brain goes into this mode of trying to find a solution, and it's…

— Jon Brion

I've noticed that the more adventurous and in that mode that I am, it seems that the more the audience really likes it.

— Chick Corea

I know this will blow your mind, but most people would probably never ever get it, but I listen to classical music when nobody…

— Vanilla Ice

In the 1950s and early 1960s, psychoanalysis swept through the intellectual community, and it was the dominant mode of thinking about the mind. People…

— Eric Kandel

Sometimes I can switch into clever mode.

— Jesse Lingard

There are definite reference points to older Depeche Mode records.

— Martin Gore