Tris," he says. "What did they do to you? You're acting like a lunatic. " "That's not very nice of you to say," I say. "They put me in a good mood, that's all. And now I really want to kiss you, so if you could just relax-
That is the principal thing-not to remain with the dream, with the intention, with the being-in-the-mood, but always forcibly to convert it all into things.
Change the scheme! Alter the mood! Electrify the boys and girls, if you'd be so kind.
There are ancient and modern poems which breathe, in their entirety and in every detail, the divine breath of irony. In such poemsthere lives a real transcendental buffoonery. Their interior is permeated by the mood which surveys everything and rises infinitely above everything limited, even above the poet's own art, virtue, and genius; and their exterior form by the histrionic style of an ordinary good Italian buffo.
If a principle exists it must be immutable, for that is what a principle is - a truth standing apart from the mood of the times.
We not not our feelings. We are not our moods. We not even our thoughts.
A mood disorder is dangerous. You've got to get those dramatic waves of highs and lows stabilized. It's dangerous if you don't.
Every book is good to read which sets the reader in a working mood.
I was off the scene for a while during the ska period and when I returned and joined the Treasure Isle studio, I came there with a different mood. The musicians picked up on that and we kept on going in that direction. The music became slower, which gave the bass player the time to play more notes. In 1965 I named it rocksteady. The first rocksteady song was 'Girl I've Got A Date'. That one was still a bit up-tempo, leaning towards ska. It turned the tide and made Treasure Isle the number one studio.
I prefer you like this, when you're in a foul mood, because you tell the truth.
Old God sure was in a good mood when he made this place.
Children are holy and pure. Even those of bandits and crocodiles belong among the angels. . . . They must not be turned into a plaything of one's mood, first to be tenderly kissed, then rabidly stomped at.
Affection, mistress of passion, sways it to the mood of what it likes or loathes.
Sebald, Naipaul, and Joyce are three of my biggest influences, all of them for their formal freedom and their ability to create mood. So those comparisons are immensely flattering and, of course, unearned.
I am not in a bad mood. Everyone is just. . annoying.
We must always work, and a self-respecting artist must not fold his hands on the pretext that he is not in the mood. If we wait for the mood, without endeavoring to meet it halfway, we easily become indirect and apathetic.
I don't even remember why I called myself an idiot. I can be very harshly critical of myself. It depends on my mood, and obviously it depends on where I am in my life. Yes, embracing myself - I'm working on that.
There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
movies have mirrored our moods and myths since the century began. They have taken on some of the work of religion.
You won't see me in a better mood than 4:00 in the morning on my way to work.