George Eliot Quotes

I get a bit gloomy when it's gloomy.

In London, the weather would affect me negatively. I react strongly to light. If it is cloudy and raining, there are clouds and rain in my soul.

A sudden gust: How big the world seems in a wind.

Men do weird things when they experience fear. It's like a fight-or-flight thing.

I don't care who you are, but you turn into a different person when you don't sleep.

We see that every external motion, act, gesture, whether voluntary or mechanical, organic or mental, is produced and preceded by internal feeling or emotion, will or volition, and thought or mind.

When I'm in a bad mood, I don't listen.

I love the Weather Channel because my mood changes a lot according to the weather!

My whole mood or sense can change by virtue of the music that I'm listening to. It really does affect me on a visceral and emotional level.

The kind of music I like depends very much on my mood.

Today fear, the most corroding of influences, is the moving cause ...

Landscape affects you.

If we are not affected by our environment, then we have somewhere become insensitive. It might be good in a way because you might not be affected by anything and be calm always.

The way you think influences the way you feel, and the way you feel determines how you act.

Our built-in human system for mimicry explains why we humans can transfer our good and bad moods to each other - if we aren't careful!

In the morning, I'm like the Antonioni movies. I'm little sad. I haven't the courage to start the day. In the evenings, I'm happier, more alive - like the character I play in 'An Almost Perfect Affair.'

Your past forms you, whether you like it or not. Each encounter and experience has its own effect, and you're shaped the way the wind shapes a mesquite tree on a plain.

When you make people angry, they act in accordance with their baser instincts, often violently and irrationally. When you inspire people, they act in accordance with their higher instincts, sensibly and rationally. Also, anger is transient, whereas inspiration sometimes has a life-long effect.

Why, what a temper you are in!

They say music can alter moods and talk to you.

I have come to really love the sound of nervous laughter.

Weather creates character.

I'm actually a pretty upbeat person outside of playing music.

My mood has changed now. And the sun has gone behind the clouds. I'm in this mood I feel occasionally... this mood where there's a very good friend nearby who I should be phoning. If only I could reach that friend and talk, then everything would be just fine. The dilemma is, of course, I just don't know who that friend is. But in my heart I know my mood is merely me feeling disconnected from my true inner self.

Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions.