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Quotes About Atmosphere

I can't write anything if I don't know where it's set, where the events are happening - even if the details of setting are minimal.
~ Laura van den Berg
The thing as an actor is you get a sense of what a show is like the minute you walk on the set.
~ David Morrissey
The space itself, your home, naturally has a message and intention.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
High-ceilinged empty rooms make a terrible impression on first entering a house.
~ Thomas Bernhard
This is God's self-description, the one he would have us remember. He is the God of mercy and forgiveness, the God who never deserts his people, faithful to the end, patient with all our failings however dismaying, but reminding us that a household—a familial environment, holding three (or sometimes four) generations—cannot escape the sins of the oldest generation; they necessarily infect the atmosphere.
~ Thomas Cahill
He Looked and smelt like Autumn's very brother, his face being sunburnt to wheat-colour, his eyes blue as corn-flowers, his sleeves and leggings dyed with fruit-stains, his hands clammy with the sweet juice of apples, his hat sprinkled with pips, and everywhere about him the sweet atmosphere of cider which at its first return each season has such an indescribable fascination for those who have been born and bred among the orchards.
~ Thomas Hardy
Persons with any weight of character carry, like planets, their atmospheres along with them in their orbits.
~ Thomas Hardy
It was still early, and the sun's lower limb was just free of the hill, his rays, ungenial and peering, addressed the eye rather than the touch as yet.
~ Thomas Hardy
The atmosphere beneath is languorous, and is so tinged with azure that what artists call the middle distance partakes also of that hue, while the horizon beyond is of the deepest ultramarine.
~ Thomas Hardy
Behind him the hill are open, the sun blazes down upon fields so large as to give unenclosed character to the landscape, the lanes are white, the hedges low and plashed, the atmosphere colourless.
~ Thomas Hardy
The roof was a gymnasium for the winds
~ Thomas Hardy
Emotions would be half starved if there were no candle-light.
~ Thomas Hardy
The rain stretched obliquely through the dull atmosphere in liquid spines, unbroken in continuity between their beginnings in the clouds and their points in him.
~ Thomas Hardy
That the man and woman were husband and wife, and the parents of the girl in arms there could be little doubt. No other than such relationship would have accounted for the atmosphere of stale familiarity which the trio carried along with them like a nimbus as they moved down the
~ Thomas Hardy
It was a typical summer evening in June, the atmosphere being in such delicate equilibrium and so transmissive that inanimate objects seemed endowed with two or three senses, if not five. There was no distinction between the near and the far, and an auditor felt close to everything within the horizon. The soundlessness impressed her as a positive entity rather than as the mere negation of noise.
~ Thomas Hardy
A hot breeze, as if breathed from the parted lips of some dragon about to swallow the globe,...
~ Thomas Hardy
The highest architectural cunning could have done nothing to make Hintock House dry and salubrious; and ruthless ignorance could have done little to make it unpicturesque. It was vegetable nature's own home; a spot to inspire the painter and poet of still life—if they did not suffer too much from the relaxing atmosphere—and to draw groans from the gregariously disposed.
~ Thomas Hardy
There was not a human soul near. Sad October and her saddest self seemed the only two existences haunting that lane.
~ Thomas Hardy
The very air had screams smeared on it. He flinched from the noise in this silent room.
~ Thomas Harris
The room smelled of wood smoke and rosemary. Silver candelabra
~ Thomas Harris
I hope they pardoned them. The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that i wish it to be always kept alive....I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere.
~ Thomas Jefferson
I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere.
~ Thomas Jefferson
The board might win such showdowns in its role as the public's champion. But Adams sensed that victories of this sort would be pyrrhic. They would so poison the atmosphere that further influence, beyond the narrow boundaries of the commission's legal authority
~ Thomas K. McCraw
I think poetry must I think it must Stay open all night In beautiful cellars.
~ Thomas Merton