Quotes About Atmosphere

It was a wet summer, even for Ireland. The sun was out the morning I landed in Dublin and shone again the day I left-and it rained every day in between. When I mentioned this, I was told, "Yes, but it's a dry rain." The Irish have a subtle conception of the truth.

She cracked a window and put on some stew.

for fog was merely a cloud that wasn't too smitten with itself to visit terra firma.

He liked being in a place where everything from forgetfulness to homicide might be blamed on the heat.

What dreadful weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance.

YÅ«gen's hallmarks [are] mystery and depth .. . . it is characterized by sadness, unspoken connotations, imagery of a veiled, monochromatic nature, and an atmosphere of haunting beauty.

The spring came suddenly; the rains stopped, the days grew noticeably longer, and the afternoon light felt powdery, as if it might blow away.

Life with an active, challenging toddler becomes much easier when you accept that positive learning does not take place in a threatening atmosphere. As research in respected university child development labs has consistently demonstrated, children don't learn healthy attitudes and life skills when they are feeling scared, hurt, or angry.

A violent act pierces the atmosphere, leaving a hole through which the cold, damp draft of its memory blows forever.

passing bars belching beer breath through open doors

Morning mists skulked over the river.

I had a feeling that day, like something was hanging over me.--Jessica

So I went up north to a land of palm trees and mangroves like malignant growths in the mud-filled throats of the bays, and orange trees with their leaves accepting darkly and seriously, in their own house as it were, the unwarranted globular outbursts of winter flame; and the sky faultless and remote.

Even the ones you don't like, you like better in Paris.

Culture is the byproduct of consistent behavior.

Caía la lluvia como cae tantas veces en la despejada Madrid, uniforme y cansinamente y sin viento que la sobresalte, como si supiera que va a durar días y no tuviera furia ni prisa.

expresado se instala en el aire y es difícil hacerlo retroceder.

The little town of Stormhaven struggled up the hill, narrow clapboard houses following a zigzag of cobblestone lanes.

Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader---not the fact it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.

Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader – not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.

man's emotional tensions might constitute an electromagnetic field similar to a radiation field in the atmosphere.

Through this atmosphere of torrid splendor moved wan beings as richly upholstered as the furniture, beings without definite pursuits or permanent relations, who drifted on a languid tide of curiosity... Somewhere behind them, in the background of their lives there was doubtless a real past, yet they had no more real existence than the poet's shades in limbo.

Ah, my dear; and I shall never be happy unless I can open the windows!

The persons of their world lived in an atmosphere of faint implications and pale delicacies, and the fact that he and she understood each other without a word seemed to the young man to bring them nearer than any explanation would have done.