Famous quotes containing the word mood:
“Sometimes a musical phrase would perfectly sum up
The mood of a moment. One of those lovelorn sonatas
For wind instruments was riding past on a solemn white horse.
Everybody wondered who the new arrival was.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)
“Craving that old sweet oneness yet dreading engulfment, wishing to be our mothers and yet be our own, we stormily swing from mood to mood, advancing and retreatingthe quintessential model of two-mindedness.”
—Judith Viorst (20th century)
“My companion assumes to know my mood and habit of thought, and we go on from explanation to explanation, until all is said that words can, and we leave matters just as they were at first, because of that vicious assumption.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
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