Quotes About Mood

I want to make theme-setting music, music that sets a theme without being cliche.

In all the background scores I do, I take care to see that the theme enriches the storyline and does not deviate from the mood of the scenes, context, characters and the entire movie.

I'd listen to whatever songs were on the radio, not because I liked them, but because they were my tarot cards. If the songs were good, it would be a good day. If they were bad, I'd probably get a B on a quiz.

If the songs were good, it would be a good day. If they were bad, I'd probably get a B on a quiz.

I studied him the way I studied all the people in my life, noticing the changes of his mood, the times when the edge of his patience came into view, even small physical details like the sickle-shaped scar on the top of his right forearm and the small flourish he made with his hand whenever he set down a tool, as if he was brushing bad air away from it.

L'occhio era cupo, cosa che costituisce sempre una buona base per l'allegria.

The ability to laugh is what differentiates man from the beasts, but evidently one cannot always get oneself in a laughing mood.

He was increasingly irritable and suspicious, and a cantankerous mood could fly over him as quickly as the shadow of a bird. But Jesse was neither close-mouthed nor sulky for long, and over the weeks that he and Charley were on the road, he unscrolled yarns and anecdotes that excited interest in Charley only insofar as they permitted him a corresponding reminiscence.

BEN: "Waiter," I said, in an exuberant mood, "I have a perfect life, but I don't have a knife.

Immersed in the saltless broth of my existence, I tried on moods.

A feeling. He wasn't one for giving names to things. Or finding their basis. His feelings were like weather. He just suffered or enjoyed them.

If you can't be cheerful, be as cheerful as you can.

Don't let a three-o'clock-at-night feeling fog your soul.

Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. It is correct to say that humor was stamped out in Nazi Germany, but that does not mean that people were not in good spirits, or anything of that sort, but something much deeper and more important.

Everybody knew that being dead could put you in a terrible mood.

Mary Paula had severe morning sickness and was in no mood to console him. He had to be particularly consolatory to her.

People are in one of two states in a relationship," Gottman went on. "The first is what I call positive sentiment override, where positive emotion overrides irritability. It's like a buffer. Their spouse will do something bad, and they'll say, 'Oh, he's just in a crummy mood.' Or they can be in negative sentiment override, so that even a relatively neutral thing that a partner says gets perceived as negative.

Lots of people drink when they are feeling down because they think it will chase their troubles away. That's inhibition-thinking: alcohol will unlock my good mood. But that's plainly not what happens. Sometimes alcohol cheers us up. But at other times, when an anxious person drinks they just get more anxious. Myopia theory has an answer to that puzzle: it depends on what the anxious, drunk person is doing.

if I am still a somber man, incapable of laughing whole-heartedly

Nothing ruins the mood during foreplay more than the recurring image of your sixty-five-year-old homeroom teacher trying to stretch a condom over a cucumber.

Shobha announced, trying to lighten the mood. "And I'll keep all the books," Girish said in the same spirit. "Fair enough. But not the records. I take most

She was either temperamental, meaning short-tempered and unhappy, or she was melancholy, meaning listless and unhappy.

Instead of answering her as soon as he saw her hair grow electric, her face more vivid, her eyes like lightning, her body restless and jerky like a racehorse's, he retired behind this wall of objective understanding, this gentle testing and acceptance of her, just as one watches an animal in the zoo and smiles at his antics, but is not drawn into this mood. It was this which left Lilith in a state of isolation - indeed, like a wild animal in an absolute desert.

I am happy today. I am a tyrant.