Al-Qaida became the new Soviet Union, and in the process, Bin Laden became a demonic, terrifyingly powerful figure brooding in a cave while he controlled and directed the al-Qaida network throughout the world. In this way, a serious but manageable terrorist threat became grossly exaggerated.
Adam Curtis
Sad music, I always thought, is more beautiful than other music. But at the same time, I am in my personal life a very happy guy. I have a sense of humor. I am not the kind of depressed guy all the time brooding. No. I am very enthusiastic about things.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Take everything easy and quit dreaming and brooding and you will be well guarded from a thousand evils.
Amy Lowell
The concept of neutrality can lead to a brooding and pervasive devotion to the secular and a passive, or even active, hostility to the religious. Such results are not only not compelled by the Constitution, but, it seems to me, are prohibited by it.
Arthur Goldberg
Sometimes I'll meet somebody, and they've looked me up online or whatever, and they've never heard me talk or met me. I think they expect me to be a lot darker than I am and maybe less - not less friendly - but I guess I'm drawn to that dark emotional music. Maybe they think I'm a little more brooding.
Aubrie Sellers
No matter how successful I may get, I'll always be a failed musician, sitting at a concert double-fisting overpriced twenty-ounce beers, wishing it was me on stage brooding soulfully to my fans. I had my shot once, but I let it slip through my fingers.
Bert Kreischer
I've always wanted to be a brooding, deep, dark artist, but I can never keep that facade going for more than 15 minutes.
Bryan Callen
Dissents are appeals to the brooding spirit of the law, to the intelligence of another day.
Charles Evans Hughes
In movies and in television the robots are always evil. I guess I am not into the whole brooding cyberpunk dystopia thing.
Daniel H. Wilson
What some people interpret as brooding melancholy is serenity. I don't feel required to grasp all the time.
David Guterson
It's a brooding melancholy that haunts me.
Let us not paralyze our capacity for good by brooding of man's capacity for evil.
David Sarnoff
It's fun to watch a show that you can watch with any member of your family, and you're going to laugh, and you're going to be moved, and you're going to have fun, rather than this dark, brooding, cold, 'purely procedural show.'
Dean Devlin
The tortured similes, the brooding introspection, the jaundiced view of society - nobody ever has any fun in a Ross Macdonald book.
Donald E. Westlake
In a pine tree behind me, an eagle waits out the rain, hunched into himself, brooding. Crows squabble, a murder chasing a raven. Seals cruise the lines of fishing nets bobbing in the water, hoping for an easy meal, the tender bellies of salmon.
Eden Robinson
All my work comes from perceiving. I kept seeing things that were brooding in me. I'm not a geometric artist.
Ellsworth Kelly
I would like to break out of this dark, brooding image, cause I'm actually not like that at all.
Gabriel Byrne
So many fantastic male characters are brooding, angry, and not nice; that doesn't happen as much with women.
Georgina Campbell
No man can ever repay the brooding mother love to which he his life.
Gutzon Borglum
I'm a pretty upbeat person. I think I sometimes get cast as these brooding types because I bring light and joy, which hopefully makes them more likable.
Jake Epstein
I like the evening in India, the one magic moment when the sun balances on the rim of the world, and the hush descends, and ten thousand civil servants drift homeward on a river of bicycles, brooding on the Lord Krishna and the cost of living.
I love thinking about American history, thinking about LA history. I love brooding on crime.
The men whose manhood you have broken will loathe you, and will always be brooding and scheming to strike a fresh blow.
Supernatural movies generally have a much more brooding pace. If you look at films like 'The Sixth Sense' or 'The Others,' it's more building up the characters and building up the situation as opposed to just opening with a big action set piece.
If someone plays a brooding actor in a film, people think they're brooding all the time.
The gay bunting erects his white crest, and gives utterance to the joy he feels in the presence of his brooding mate; the willow grouse on the rock crows his challenge aloud; each floweret, chilled by the night air, expands its pure petals; the gentle breeze shakes from the blades of grass the heavy dewdrops.
I spend some of my time brooding about people who seem addicted to double standards - those who take an allegedly principled stand on a Monday, then switch firmly to the opposite principle on Tuesday if it is to their advantage.
I'm not Mr. Brooding.
My favourite character would have to be 'Ash,' because I love my brooding bad boys. But a certain snarky talking cat runs a very close second.
'Catcher in the Rye.' I feel like any brooding teen loves that book.
I seem to be attracted to the quiet, brooding type. But not too brooding. Too brooding can be narcissistic. Or psychotic.
What I'm normally associated with are darker, more brooding roles.
'Find Me' I think, is brooding in a very literal sense of the word in that you have all of these sort of interior storm that's growing within Joy over the course of the book and leading her to her moment. And certainly, I think there's an aspect of the supernatural.
One of the reasons I like living in Bangkok is that, although it's a megacity, it's very saturated with nature - the vast and brooding skies, the sudden storms and rains, the vegetation and even the animals that abound.
People see my photos and think I labor over my image and I'm this cool, brooding artist. But I'm just having fun with it.
I like the brooding man - a brooding man with a sense of humor.
The guys who spend their time brooding in their younger years either lighten up or go away.
One reason most people never stop thinking is that mental frenzy keeps us from having to see the upsetting aspects of our lives. If I'm constantly brooding about my children or career, I won't notice that I'm lonely. If I grapple continuously with logistical problems, I can avoid contemplating little issues like, say, my own mortality.
I can express the brooding part of myself on-screen. It's kind of fun to get to do the bratty things I really wouldn't do. And then I get to go back to my regular life.
I think TV has been a little bit irresponsible in how they portray these people because homicide detectives are not brooding, tortured souls who are stained with the stink of the city and who have blood on their hands. They are real, live people that are incredibly entertaining.
It's like the brooding hen sitting over a china egg.
I used desperately to want to be a brooding hero from literature, but I'm optimistic, healthy and fair-haired.
I think there's been this whole image of masculinity that's been out in society - of brooding, brutish, egotistical, narcissistic men - like, this patriarchy.
For me, art is not 'brooding.' It comes from someplace that is more fun and that has a kind of electricity to it.
'Satya' and 'Company' are two very dark and brooding relationship films; there was no hero.
You must always be open to new experiences; by this means, your physical and etheric bodies will be brought into a condition which may be compared with the contented mood of a brooding hen.
Squirrel Girl is basically a Silver Age character in the modern age, and that makes her a fish out of water in a lot of ways. She likes being a superhero. She likes fighting crime. She doesn't sit around brooding in the darkness of her Squirrel Hole trying to figure out new ways to make crime pay.
For 'Fright Night,' we really want to convey the fun attitude of the movie and show the intensity of Colin Farrell as a predator. He's not a brooding vampire - he's dark and dangerous.
The devil lies brooding in the miser's chest.
The films that I do are deep, introspective, brooding roles that you're in this heavy headspace all the time.
