Quotes About Atmosphere

In the hypnotic liquidity of the atmosphere all motion slows into choreography, all people on the street move as if suspended in a precarious emulsion, and there seems only a technical distinction between the quick and the dead

Gli abitanti di Lansquenet hanno imparato l'arte di osservare senza incrociare i suoi occhi. Sento il loro sguardo come un respiro sulla nuca, stranamente privo di ostilità, e tuttavia freddo. Per loro siamo una curiosità, parte del carnevale, una ventata che viene da terre lontane.

We all know that a sky with clouds in it is much more interesting than one that doesn't have any.

We all know that a sky with clouds in it is much more interesting than one that doesn't have any.

You have to understand – there is a romance to Africa. You can see a sunset and believe you have witnessed the hand of God. You watch the slow lope of a lioness and forget to breathe. You marvel at the tripod of a giraffe bent to water. In Africa, there are iridescent blues on the wings of birds that you do not see anywhere else in nature. In Africa, in the midday heat, you can see blisters in the atmosphere. When you are in Africa, you feel primordial, rocked in the cradle of the world.

Going to a concert is so overwhelming and the energy is amazing.

Noses to the wind, we inhaled a farrago of scents: charcoal and jasmine, rotting fruit and eucalyptus, gasoline and ammonia, a swirling belch from the city's poorly irrigated gut.

This particularly unfashionable neighborhood was a shady one despite the absence of trees, and

Something about the fraternal atmosphere of a billiards hall reassured the soul. The isolated pool of light over a table of green felt was an indoor hydroponic zone where what grew was the prickly plant of masculine emotion, too sensitive for sunlight and fresh air.

The lamps are burning and the starry sky is over it all.

There is but one Paris and however hard living may be here, and if it became worse and harder even—the French air clears up the brain and does good—a world of good.

A highly competitive atmosphere creates artificial tensions, and when competition replaces participation, compulsive action is the result.

A caress is to a shiver as dusk is to a lightning flash.

Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible--the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nuturing family.

Melancholy were the sounds on a winter's night.

No, what mattered here was that Alice had spent a lifetime struggling to become a conscious human being whose primary delight was the use of her own mind; and now she was locked up in an atmosphere constructed to ignore—nay, discard—that long, valiant effort, when the only thing owed a human being—yes, from first to last—was to have it honored.

People always talk about good, fresh country air, but I kept getting wiffs of something that was neither good nor fresh but definitely country.

My hands felt bruised from the hot, dry air. Inside,

aromas. Above, a ceiling of parched wood dropped dust

A ballpark at night is more like a church than a church

The Christmas bells from hill to hill Answer each other in the mist.

I don't like green Christmases. They're not green—they're just nasty faded browns and grays.

It's, like, a rule. You can't have Christmas without snow.

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.