Quotes About Atmosphere

It is ... particularly true of constitutional government that its atmosphere is opinion .... It does not remain fixed in any unchanging form, but grows with the growth and is altered with the change of the nation's needs and purposes.

I was supremely confident my flair for atmosphere and characterization would sparkle alongside the numbing mulch ground out by studio hacks. Certainly the space atop my mantel might be better festooned by a gold statuette than by the plastic dipping bird that now bobbed there ad infinitum.

They all liked California, but they thought the people were cold.

A sort of war of revenge on the intellect is what, for some reason, thrives in the contemporary social atmosphere.

You could walk from North Tai Ping Zhuang over to the North Entrance of He Ping Street, and you may as well have smoked your way through two packs of Camels. You smoked the taxi driver's smoke as he spun sharply around a corner, you smoked the local party leader's smoke as he tried to establish order at a meeting, you smoked your boyfriend's smoke whether he loved you or not. Chinese-made cigarettes, foreign imports, dodgy rip-offs. The city was in a permanent fog.

The sound of the rain seemed louder in the study, as if the sky were actually lower there.

this feeling that the air was tearing itself apart.

The sun comes out but the rain stays put. No rainbows today. Not here.

the same day Stephen Schneider assured the subcommittee that "there is virtually no scientific controversy" over the contention that more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will produce higher temperatures. "That's not a speculative theory," he said.

Francis Bretherton, of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, told Time that if the Great Plains became a dust bowl and people followed the seasonable temperatures north, Canada might replace the United States as the Western superpower.

Cat's-paws—delicate, rapidly moving ripples that crest at right angles to the wind and chase it along the surface—reveal the direction of an approaching gust.

At first you are awed by the splendour, by the beauty, of the planet and then you look down and you realize that this one planet is the only thing we have. Every time the sun comes up and goes down… and for us that's sixteen times a day… you see a thin, thin, thin layer just above the surface, maybe 10 or 12 kilometres thick. That is the atmosphere of the Earth. That is it. Below that is life. Above it is nothing. JULIE PAYETTE, Canadian astronaut

As Twilight Towers was set on the edge of the moors, streetlamps were few and far between.

the jet stream undulating over us like an angry snake god.

The wind rose here, as plangent as a human voice crying out.

Our perceptions are influenced by our surroundings.

In presence of the Moon nobody sees stars.

Yale has influenced the Central Intelligence Agency more than any other university, giving the CIA the atmosphere of a class reunion.

Jealousy in the air tonight, I could tell. I will never understand that but oh well.

I knew that Sundays in England aren't just ordinary dull Sundays, the same the world over, which demand that one simply tiptoe through without disturbing them or paying them the least attention, they are vaster and slower and more burdensome than anywhere else I know.

could almost hear piped-in

There's always been a wild quiet about Solly. It stays in the air near him like a scent.

That arc of light, born of the shower and colored by the sun, which spans the heavens!

The door made the usual, terrifying sound of a door.