When a country is at war or in economic depression, underdevelopment or tightened security, it sets an affective tone or mood, which… — Kode9 Copy Share Image
Women, I learned, adapted. At first..they seemed so fragile, so dependent on fathers and husbands and brothers and lovers. Gradually, though, I… — Alice Steinbach Copy Share Image
There are moods in which one feels the impulse to enter a tacit protest against too gross an appetite for pure aesthetics… — Henry James Copy Share Image
The Enormous Room seems to me to be the book that has nearest approached the mood of reckless adventure in which men… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
The expression of a man's face is commonly a help to his thoughts, or glossary on his speech; but the countenance of… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I've come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It's my personal approach that creates the… — Haim Ginott Copy Share Image
Idealism that makes no distinction between areas where our national interest lies and those from which it is remote does no good… — Dick Morris Copy Share Image
BYU takes on defending national champion Florida State in the Pigskin Classic in Jacksonville, Fla., eight days after announcing that the 2000… — LaVell Edwards Copy Share Image
To young men contemplating a voyage I would say go. The tales of rough usage are for the most part exaggerations, as… — Joshua Slocum Copy Share Image
You've got to remember that films don't lead the way. People think that films are trying to lead society. Mostly, they're reflecting… — George Clooney Copy Share Image
The reader reads aloud, with a sing-song up … then down … then down again cadence. My mood shifts from merely reluctant… — Gabrielle Hamilton Copy Share Image
And for some reason, when I'm sad, I do listen to Leonard Cohen, I do listen to Joni Mitchell. I do find… — Glen Hansard Copy Share Image
I get a message from my dad. In the mood I'm in, I tear up to see his name in my inbox,… — Sara Zarr Copy Share Image
There is to the poetical sense a ravishing prophecy and winsome intimation in flowers that now and then, from the influence of… — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Copy Share Image
All aspects of photography interest me and I feel for the female body the same curiosity and the same love as for… — Jeanloup Sieff Copy Share Image
I think that you get the mood of a song stronger if you get it right that way. On the other hand,… — Peter Gabriel Copy Share Image
These books have not made George nobler or better or more truly wise. It is just that he likes listening to their… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
Musicians from the beginning of time have been there to express the mood and the musical feelings in the air for whatever's… — Trey Anastasio Copy Share Image
Of course my moods change, but the average is serenity. I have a firm faith in art, a firm confidence in its… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
I told him about the way they get to know you. Not the way people do, the way they flatter you by… — Amy Hempel Copy Share Image
Indeed the worthy housewife was of such a capricious nature, that she not only attained a higher pitch of genius than Macbeth,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I don't generally like things that are too pedestrian. But at the same time, and if I'm in the right mood, hey… — Robert Trujillo Copy Share Image
FOAM OF THE DAZE is a novel like no other, a sexy, innocent, smart and sweet cartoon of a world which then… — Jim Krusoe Copy Share Image
Consider Christmas - could Satan in his most malignant mood have devised a worse combination of graft plus bunkum than the system… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
Being in this fine mood, I spoke to a little boy, whom I saw playing alone in the road, asking him what… — W. H. Davies Copy Share Image
There are, I think, four distinct types of weird story: one expressing a mood or feeling, another expressing a pictorial conception, a… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
In a mood like I just don't give a damn. That is how to drop it sometime, but do it in a… — Glen Rambharack Copy Share Image
It's been so much a part of my life the thinking that I go through is crucial. I found that if I… — Damian Loeb Copy Share Image
No matter what, I'm trying to have fun and, depending on the mood, fun can be on a roller coaster and playing… — Shawn Mendes Copy Share Image
If I wished to see a mountain or other scenery under the most favorable auspices, I would go to it in foul… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Every moment some form grows perfect in hand or face; some tone on the hills or the sea is choicer than the… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
To me, no painter has ever quite understood the light, the distances, the aboriginal ghostliness of the American West as well as… — Thomas McGuane Copy Share Image
It was really just the name that inspired me: Rainsboro. It's located near Rocky Fork State Park. I have probably driven through… — Donald Ray Pollock Copy Share Image
The late hour is such a friend; it has been for so many years. There is not a soul around as I… — Christopher Pike Copy Share Image
Lithium tweaks many mood-altering chemicals in the brain, and its effects are complicated. Most interesting, lithium seems to reset the body’s circadian… — Sam Kean Copy Share Image
I've listened to music all my life. I've always felt that music tells more stories sometimes than films, with more possibilities. Every… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
One day I found out that personal history was no longer necessary for me and, like drinking, I dropped it... Little by… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
“Another reason it would be a good invention is that there are so many times when you know you're feeling a lot… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“Human emotion. Millions of souls, together they make the mood of a certain time. It doesn’t matter that they disagree, that they… — Bee Ridgway Copy Share Image
Books are a really fun way to get yourself in a certain mindset or mood as an actress. Also, the way people… — Emma Roberts Copy Share Image
