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Quotes About Atmosphere

all I could see was the warm grey of quickening sky.
~ Bram Stoker
but there was a queer, acrid smell about.
~ Bram Stoker
Versión en español) ¿Cómo voy a poder, cómo podría alguien, describir aquella extraña escena, su solemnidad, su lobreguez, su tristeza, su horror y, sin embargo, también su dulzura?
~ Bram Stoker
I felt doubts and fears crowding upon me. What sort of place had I come to, and among what kind of people?
~ Bram Stoker
Listen to them - the children of the night. What music they make!
~ Bram Stoker
Why do I sense hostility on your part, Patrick?" she asks softly, then sips her wine. "Maybe because I'm hostile," I spit out. "Maybe because you sense this.
~ Bret Easton Ellis
and above the building like a backdrop is a moonless sky, which earlier, in the afternoon, was hung with clouds but tonight isn't.
~ Bret Easton Ellis
Over a razor-edged horizon the shimmering atmosphere was filled with pastel colors of sunrise. In a brief instant the clean stillness of Arrakis allowed warm light to flood over the wrinkled landscape Ã¢â'¬Â¦ a sudden deluge of brightness and rising heat. The white sun lurched above the horizon, without much precursor glow in the arid air.
~ Brian Herbert
There were no seasons in the cave, only constant heat, and misty green opalescence.
~ Brian Jacques
Out of all the neighborhoods in Manhattan, Soho in particular had the charged atmosphere of a movie set, populated with passersby who looked like extras from Central Casting, so perfectly did they fit into this environment. There was the feeling of everything being not quite real, or too perfectly cliched to actually be true, and it began to rain in a fine, misty drizzle from a black patent leather sky.
~ Candace Bushnell
Thus, 99 percent of the Earth's atmosphere is of biological origin. The sky is made by life.
~ Carl Sagan
The study of the global climate, the comparison of the Earth with other worlds, are subjects in their earliest stages of development. They are fields that are poorly and grudgingly funded. In our ignorance, we continue to push and pull, to pollute the atmosphere and brighten the land, oblivious of the fact that the long-term consequences are largely unknown.
~ Carl Sagan
At depth on Jupiter and Saturn, the pressures are so great that atoms sweat electrons, and the air becomes a metal.
~ Carl Sagan
We often speak of creating an environment for reading, a reading climate.
~ Teri S. Lesesne
Again he trailed off into ominous silence.
~ Terry Brooks
Macbeth as a whole is awash with questions, sometimes questions responded to by another question, which helps to generate an atmosphere of uncertainty, anxiety and paranoid suspicion.
~ Terry Eagleton
The storm walked around the hills on legs of lightning, shouting and grumbling.
~ Terry Pratchett
It didn't look like the kind of snow that whispers down gently in the pit of the night and in the morning turns the landscape into a glittering wonderland of uncommon and ethereal beauty. It looked like the kind of snow that intends to make the world as bloody cold as possible.
~ Terry Pratchett
The light was misty and actinic, the sort of light to make Steven Spielberg reach for his copyright lawyer.
~ Terry Pratchett
There's one thing you can say for air pollution, you get utterly amazing sunrises.
~ Terry Pratchett Neil Gaiman
But what thrilled me most was the fact that millions of meteors burn up every day as they enter our atmosphere. As a result, Earth receives ten tons of dust from outer space. Not only do we take in the world with each breath, we are inhaling the universe. We are made of stardust.
~ Terry Tempest Williams
But what thrilled me most was the fact that millions of meteors burn up every day as they enter our atmosphere. As a result, Earth received ten tons of dust from outer space. Not only do we take in the world with each breath, we are inhaling the universe. We are made of stardust.
~ Terry Tempest Williams
I look at the others seated around the campfire. Mr. and Mrs. Matsunaga are diligently reviewing the day's photos on his camera. Vivian and Sylvia lounge in their low-cut tank tops, oozing pheromones that make poor, awkward Elliot grovel for attention as usual. Are you gals chilly? Can I get your sweaters?
~ Tess Gerritsen
The long drizzle had begun. Pedestrians had turned up collars and trousers at the bottom. Hands were hidden in the pockets of the umbrella-less - umbrellas were up. The street looked like a sea of round, black-cloth roofs, twisting, bobbing, moving. Trucks and vans were rattling in a noisy line, and everywhere men were shielding themselves as best they could.
~ Theodore Dreiser