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Quotes About Atmosphere

The first mystery was that the rows of candles under each of the statues of Jesus and Mary and Joseph were all flickering and trembling as if there were gusts of wind when in fact the vast church was shut tight and none of the heavy doors were open. I believed that the spirit of God in the statues was so strong it made the candles flutter and hiss, tremulous with suffering. Each tiny burst of light lit up the caked blood on Jesus's bony white feet and it looked wet.
~ Unknown
Smoke was hanging over Buffalo like judgment.
~ Lucille Clifton
Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
~ Unknown
When they were all ready, Halpern again counted them in, and the lyrical clarinet line floated over the strings and, Max felt, out of the open window and on, out and out over the hot, dusty July city like summer rain.
~ Unknown
Shooting stars are not stars at all. They're just rocks that eneter the atmosphere and catch fire under friction. What we wish on, when we see one, is just a trail of debris.
~ Jodi Picoult
they've done their share of crying, and we all know that a sky with clouds in it is much more interesting than one that doesn't have any.
~ Jodi Picoult
Shooting stars are not stars at all. They're just rocks that enter the atmosphere and catch fire under friction. What we wish on, when we see one, is only a trail of debris
~ Jodi Picoult
Shooting stars are not stars at all. They're just rocks that enter the atmosphere and catch fire under friction. What we wish on, when we see one, is only a trail of debris.
~ Jodi Picoult
Friendship with children is the best atmosphere in a home.
~ John Arthur
Pulling down his hat he lingered on the street corner, melting back against a grimy wall of London brick.
~ John Bainbridge
How flat all sounds are at the seaside, flat and yet emphatic, like the sound of gunshots heard at a distance.
~ John Banville
There was a beat of silence and the atmosphere thickened briefly. I glanced from one of them to the other, seeming to detect an invisible something passing between them, not so much a signal as a sort of silent token, like one of those almost impalpable acknowledgements that adulterers exchange when they are in company. The phenomenon was strange to me still but would become increasingly familiar the deep I penetrated into the secret world.
~ John Banville
music plays a significant, key role in cultivating an atmosphere for the presence of the Lord. It has the ability to open and prepare a person's heart.
~ John Bevere
The night was warmer than most I had known; we could breathe without seeing clouds of unpoken words dissolving into the atmosphere before us.
~ John Boyne
There was no snow here, but a wind was blowing from the east which searched the marrow.
~ John Buchan
This is being written in another seaside cottage on another coast. Gin and whiskey have bitten rings in the table where I sit.
~ John Cheever
Trace listened to the story, but how could he get excited? Francis had no powers that would let him re-create a brush with death - particularly in the atmosphere of a commuting train, journeying through a sunny countryside where already, in the slum gardens, there were signs of harvest.
~ John Cheever
I don't understand half of what I read,' Christie began, speaking with extreme precision. 'All I know is that every one of those old books has its own atmosphere for me.
~ John Cowper Powys
Cordelia's face lent itself to windy and rainy weather.
~ John Cowper Powys
I never have liked these here windy nights. These here nights be turble hummy and drummy to me pore head.
~ John Cowper Powys
There are so many people who feel sad every morning. Not because something is wrong with them but because of their surroundings.
~ Unknown
Every deed and every relationship is surrounded by an atmosphere of silence. Friendship needs no words -- it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
~ Dag Hammarskjold
If your house smells good, people perceive you as a good person. If there is a bad smell, people may perceive you another way.
~ Unknown
Your culture is your brand.
~ Tony Hsieh