A whim, a passing mood, readily induces the novelist to move hearth and home elsewhere. He can always plead work as an excuse to get him out of the clutches of bothersome hosts. – C. S. Forester
I’m a firm believer that lighting affects mood, and twinkly lights on strings bring something magical to occasions ranging from concerts to weddings, though I’m fond of using them as year-round home decor. There’s a reason why they’re sometimes called fairy lights. When the night is right, there aren’t any strings at all. – Erin Morgenstern
I haven’t done as much proper travelling as I’d like to have done. However, I know how important the weather is for my mood and spirits. – Miranda Raison
I had this sense that I was part of, sort of a lineage of artists and writers through history that have had mood disorders. – Ellen Forney
I visited a scientist who had a helmet with magnetic fields controlled by computer sequences that could profoundly affect your mood and your perceptions. – Douglas Trumbull
In Romanticism, the main determinant is the mood, the atmosphere. And in that regard, you could also describe Schubert as a Romantic. – Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
There is something bigger than fact: the underlying spirit, all it stands for, the mood, the vastness, the wildness. – Emily Carr
Chimpanzees, typically, kiss and embrace after fights. They first make eye contact from a distance to see the mood of the others. Then they approach and kiss and embrace. – Frans de Waal
When my mood was high, I seemed normal, even buoyant. I felt smarter. I had secrets. I could see God in a light bulb. – Gene Tierney
I believe the director is the one that sets the mood and if you have this hysterical director it’s a domino effect. I would work for him forever, for nothing. Don’t tell my agent that. – Elizabeth Pena
Divorced women, compared to married women, are less satisfied with their lives, which is not surprising. But they’re actually more cheerful, when you look at the average mood they’re in in the course of the day. – Daniel Kahneman
Just don’t go to a place where everything is too expensive… it’ll put your husband in a bad mood. – Diane von Furstenberg
People’s mood is really determined primarily by their genetic make-up and personality, and in the second place by their immediate context, and only in the third and fourth place by worries and concerns and other things like that. – Daniel Kahneman
One night Roger was in a foul mood and he threw his entire bloody drumset across the stage. The thing only just missed me – I might have been killed. – Freddie Mercury
To me, lighting really sets the mood for a room. A 40 watt bulb in a cheap lamp is the same as a 40 watt bulb in an expensive one. – Edward Walker
I’m very finicky about when I’m in the right mood to write. So most days, I find some excuse not to do anything. – Ned Beauman
Starving to be skinny isn’t my thing. When I don’t eat, it affects my mood! On-set, I fuel up with small meals and I’m always grabbing high-protein snacks, like almonds. Chai lattes with espresso also keep me going. – Nina Dobrev
I realized if I’m not really making an album, I don’t have to be concerned about things like stylistic consistency, pacing, a coherent mood. All that stuff goes out the window. – John Oates
My style is determined by the mood, the period and the circumstances which I’m going through in a given moment. – Luke Evans
I write songs about real things… The subject dictates the mood and it goes from there, really. – John Mayall
I have a visual sense for the music. It has to stay true to a certain sense of period. I rely on a sense of colors and mood in my approach to the arrangement. – Leon Redbone