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Quotes About Atmosphere

As the adults, we are the ones who set the stage for vitality, love, or disharmony in the home. We set ourselves up for one or the other, and our children take their cues from us.
~ Gabriel Cousens M.D.
It was a nice day, and I don't mean that it was sunny either. It was humid and not too cool, like winter was getting annoyed with itself and wanted it to be spring just as much as everyone else.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
What is a storm? Sadie thought. It is water, and it is light, and it is wind. And it is how these three elements act on the surfaces they touch. How hard can that be?
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Bookstores attract the right kind of folk. Good people like A.J. and Amelia. And I like talking about books with people who like talking about books. I like paper. I like how it feels, and I like the feel of a book in my back pocket. I like how a new book smells
~ Gabrielle Zevin
The wild, dark lords of Moonlight Square definitely made up their own dangerous breed. They fit right in with the haunted atmosphere that still lingered in this place, as though they were drawn to it. Each an island of gloom and brooding isolation unto himself, they drifted through Society like great, ominous thunderheads, crackling with the tension of pent-up lightning and liable to rage into a storm at any moment.
~ Gaelen Foley
People do dismiss ambient music, don't they? They call it 'easy listening ' as if to suggest that it should be hard to listen to.
~ Brian Eno
There are certain sounds that I've found work well in nearly any context. Their function is not so much musical as spatial: they define the edges of the territory of the music.
~ Brian Eno
Basic training was at Aldershot and if there is a more depressing place than this in all Europe, then I would not be interested to know of it.
~ Brian Epstein
The Earth Goddess is a parasite," said Diya. "Her roots burrow deep into the earth, and her branches seek the heavens as she sucks the life out of the environment and atmosphere around her. That is what she has done to create the desert that covers this peninsula." "Abomination of desolation," blurted Enoch. "Someone should destroy it," offered Lamech. "That would be very difficult," said Diya. "It would take a gibborim.
~ Brian Godawa
The oaks were a mellow orange, the maples a blazing red, the birches a creamy yellow, and then ippy air between them was suffused with the golden light of late afternoon. It bit gently, with a promise of winter and the icy teeth to come.
~ Brian Hodge
She called to them: the cicadas , the moths, the beetles, and fireflies, the little gnats and mosquitos, the thousands and thousands of little mosquitos. And they responded, their tiny voices swelling, coming together like a song, filling the woods with their melody as they flew to her, swarming and swirling together like a growing storm cloud.
~ Brom
The barometric pressure at sea level is 760 torr, a unit of measure named after Torricelli. By 10,000 feet the pressure has dropped to 525 torr, and at the 14,410-foot summit of Mount Rainier the pressure is around 440 torr, or more than forty percent less than at sea level. Most of the air collects at the bottom of the troposphere. When you stand atop Mount Rainier, almost half the weight of the world's air floats beneath you.
~ Bruce Barcott
Yes, I believe every environment has a tone. If you were to walk into any home as a stranger, not speaking the language, you could absolutely feel whether this is a place where people are loved.
~ Bruce D. Perry
Dr. Perry: That vibration, as you describe it, equates to the emotional tone of the environment.
~ Bruce D. Perry
Oprah: Yes, I believe every environment has a tone. If you were to walk into any home as a stranger, not speaking the language, you could absolutely feel whether this is a place where people are loved. Just as you can sense when something's off. You may not know what it is, but something feels off.
~ Bruce D. Perry
every environment has a tone.
~ Bruce D. Perry
A piactéren álló ház els? emeleti lakásán nap mint nap végigvonult az egész hatalmas nyár: rezg? léglombikok csöndje, forró álmukat alvó fényes négyszögek a padlón; a nappal tárházának legmélyéb?l kiszabadult verklidallam; egy zongorarefrén újra meg újra felhangzó két-három taktusa napfénybe ájultan a fehér kövezeten, a nappal mélyének tüzébe veszve.
~ Bruno Schulz
Las noches, estrelladas y solemnes, parecían altivas damas en terciopelos enjoyados.
~ Herman Melville
As I sat there in that now lonely room; the fire burning low, in that mild stage when, after its first intensity has warmed the air, it then only glows to be looked at; the evening shades and phantoms gathering round the casements, and peering upon us silent, solitary twain; the storm booming without its solemn swells; I began to be sensible of strange feelings.
~ Herman Melville
The air was sultry and still, as if full of spent thunderbolts.
~ Herman Melville
Oaths, blasphemies, and one recurring four-letter word filled the air like fog.
~ Herman Wouk
Nes visa tai ?vyko plakant mano širdžiai; buvo v?jas, saul? ir debesys, visi jie sruvo per mano šird? ir per mano rankas.
~ Hermann Broch
Under a sky that hasn't been blue for weeks.
~ Hillary Frank
Like humidity, the truth thickens all air.
~ Holly Hughes