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Quotes About Atmosphere

the desperate feel of the last warm night of summer.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
She smelled like road dust, and honey, and the smell the air holds seconds before a heavy summer rain.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
Love is in the air." "Is that what that smell is?" "Yep," said Paddy.
~ Unknown
A wind picked up and I could feel the sea within it.
~ Patti Smith
In Washington Square, one could still feel the characters of Henry James and the presence of the author himself. Entering the perimeters of the white arch, one was greeted by the sounds of bongos and acoustic guitars, protest singers, political arguments, activists leafleting, older chess players challenged by the young. This open atmosphere was something I had not experienced, simple freedom that did not seem to be oppressive to anyone.
~ Patti Smith
The slow-moving atmosphere surrounding the cafe so captivated me that I desired nothing more than to dwell within it.
~ Patti Smith
My mother, sitting at the kitchen table, the steam rising from her cup entwining with the smoke curling from her cigarette resting on an invariably chipped ashtray.
~ Patti Smith
I wandered through Kino parlors and peered through the windows of the magnificent sprawling Grant's Raw Bar filled with men in black coats scooping up piles of fresh oysters.
~ Patti Smith
This open atmosphere was something I had not experienced, simple freedom that did not seem to be oppressive to anyone.
~ Patti Smith
According to them, when you think a dark or pessimistic thought, it produces a cloud in the sky. If enough people are thinking gloomy thoughts at once, then rain will begin to fall. That
~ Paul Auster
I wasn't fed; I was presented with lukewarm appetitive stimuli. I wasn't punished, but broken of my unconditioned reflexes. I wasn't loved, but brought up in an atmosphere of calculated intimacy and intense levels of commitment.
~ Paul Beatty
complexity of love would be like trying to tell me we live forever. There are so many levels of love it is almost like the atmosphere… So elliptic and translucent like a layered cake. Looking from within not visible to the naked eye but seen and could almost be touched from outer space.
~ Unknown
Molecules of methane that make their way into the atmosphere create a warming effect up to thirty-four times stronger than carbon dioxide over a one-hundred-year time horizon.
~ Paul Hawken
The atmosphere was electrified by the orgasm with which the strong and secure are overcome when confronted with the visible frailty of someone worse off than themselves.
~ Unknown
When Kirchhoff had studied sunlight with his spectroscope, he had detected a number of unaccountable dark bands in its spectrum. The light from the sun had to pass through its atmosphere, and he realized that these dark bands were the 'fingerprints' of the
~ Unknown
Her words smelled of bonfires. They felt like dirt, filling his mouth. They tasted like Halloween. A.C. Wise For the Removal of Unwanted Guests
~ Unknown
The accordion and the whores and the retching,' he said. 'That's our music.
~ Paula McLain
Almost as soon as I arrived back at Njoro, it began to rain for the first time in over a year. The sky went black, splitting open with a deluge that didn't want to stop.
~ Paula McLain
On the street, it was dark in the way only Africa can be.
~ Paula McLain
Dense clouds have swallowed the moon and stars—the
~ Paula McLain
This is why tourists come to wine country, not just to get tipsy from tiny pours of Cabernet Sauvignon, but to be inside this world, where every surface mirrors back the sun.
~ Paula McLain
Dust billowed around us, creeping under our loose-tied handkerchiefs and into our noses and mouths. It was fine and silty, red as ochre or the brush-tailed fox,
~ Paula McLain
Falling autumn leaves gave the air an amber hue as though seen through a jar of honey.
~ Paula Wall
The apple trees were in full bloom, the scent enveloping the party in a heady, almost palpable mist, and pale petals rocked on the glittering surface of the water and lay in white mats against the banks.
~ Unknown