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Quotes About Mood

If beer tastes too much of cheer, well then it borders on porter.
~ Terri Guillemets
Chocolate is an antidepressant, which is especially useful as you start to gain weight.
~ Jason Love, jasonlove.com
The cloud controls the light, and the mountains on earth appear or fade according to its passage; they wear so simply, from head to foot, the luminous grey or the emphatic purple, as the cloud permits, that their own local colour and their own local season are lost and cease, effaced before the all-important mood of the cloud.
~ Alice Meynell, "Cloud"
Coffee much quickens the spirits and makes the heart lightsome.
~ An old coffee-house handbill
And you know very well that coffee makes us severe, and grave, and philosophical.
~ Jonathan Swift
It is difficult to be good-natured in a hot day. Intense heat destroys even the temper of steel, and why not that of flesh and blood?
~ George D. Prentice
Every story has, or should have, a mood: the connective tissue which holds the story together. In this regard some writers are adroit, others don't have a clue.
~ Jack Vance
She seems somewhat morose and out of sorts. Do you beat her often?' 'I must admit that I do not.' 'There is the answer! Beat her well; beat her often! It will bring roses to her cheeks! There is nothing better to induce good cheer in a woman than a fine constitutional beating.
~ Jack Vance
Ripeness and amplitude were the first and most essential ingredients of true comeliness. Men liked to grasp something substantial when in a mood to do so: this was Queen Sollace's experience.
~ Jack Vance
a strange mood settled over the City: proud, defiant, hostile, despairing. All of these things at once. War was coming.
~ Jacqueline Carey
A strange smile wavered just around his face, not yet in his face
~ James Baldwin
My sullenness delighted him. "You're charming," he said. "Do you always speak like this?
~ James Baldwin
I have tried too in my time to be a philosopher; but, I don't know how, cheerfulness was always breaking in.
~ James Boswell
the water sounds like fall. Less celebratory, more resigned.
~ James Evans
There was a little girl who had a little curl Right in the middle of her forehead. When she was good, she was very very good, But when she was bad, they upped her meds.
~ James Finn Garner
Before Newton the English word gravity denoted a mood—seriousness, solemnity….
~ James Gleick
All that's left now is purely poetic work, putting more life into individual places, as I've made so sure of the fundamental mood and dimension of expression that it won't leave me groping around in uncertainty any more.
~ Oskar Kokoschka
My wife is the sweetest, most even-keeled person ever. A mood swing to her is like, 'Oh, I'm uncomfortable.'
~ Bill Hader
My initial thoughts about what a title can do was to set mood and the prime underlying core of the film's story, to express the story in some metaphorical way.
~ Saul Bass
To understand me, you have to meet me and be around me. And then only if I'm in a good mood - don't meet me in a bad mood.
~ Avril Lavigne
Obama ran as sane and decent, as though we were electing a mood, and not necessarily a set of policies. Unfortunately, Obama has governed the same way - and misread the mood, which is all there is, really, because being crazy and stupid is all we're really good at politically any more.
~ Charlie Pierce
You don't think your way back to joy
~ you open to it.
Opinion polls sponsored by newspapers were traditionally meant to bring to the fore the mood of the people objectively.
~ N. Bhaskara Rao
When I'm getting ready, I'll listen to '80s music on Spotify just to wake me up and put me in the mood. I like that it's cheesy.
~ Julia Restoin Roitfeld