Quotes About Atmosphere

The candle-light was dim, as though the darkness were trying to put it out.

The chilly mist settled down around them, sinking like midnight into his bones. His arm hurt, and his heart felt like an open wound in his chest.

Where did you live before you came here? I asked. The moon, he said smoothly. We left because the place had no atmosphere.

Where did you live before you came here?" I asked. "The moon," he said smoothly. "We left because the place had no atmosphere.

wrote it in the summer of 1959 in my furnished room at the Hotel Rio, on West Forty-Seventh Street between Sixth and Seventh avenues.

I could hear the cicadas like a vortex of hundreds of tiny violins. I'd always hated them, too. Anytime cicadas showed up, bad juju lurked nearby.

effect of place upon human temperaments.

It was already dark and the city was drifting like a bed of seaweed towards the lighted cafés of the upper town.

Melancholy were the sounds on a winter's night.

I love Evensong. There's something sad and essentially English about it.

...a sad sort of vulnerability was wafting from her, making the night smell like maple syrup.

On Venus you could cook a 16-inch pepperoni pizza in seven seconds, just by holding it out to the air. (Yes, I did the math.)

rain slowly slides down the glass as if the night is crying.

A word is nothing unless it has values and an atmosphere, unless you grasp its historical significance.

As everyone knows, it is a thousand times easier to reconstruct the facts of what happened at a certain time than its intellectual atmosphere. The atmosphere is reflected not in official events but, most conspicuously, in small, personal episodes...

When all work is brought to a standstill, the candles are lit. Just as creation began with the word, Let there be light ! so does the celebration of creation begin with the kindling of lights. It is the woman who ushers in the joy and sets up the most exquisite symbol, light, to dominate the atmosphere of the home.

The fog was mysterious. The lights were mysterious. The music was A-Tisket, A-Tasket.

But the sky is interesting, it changes all the time.

It was disquieting to Eddie, this jarring contrast between the bright, cheery atmosphere inside Palisades and the slowly darkening world outside it. As calliope music played and diapered babies crawled in derbies, bombs fell on the other side of the world, which no longer seemed so comfortably distant.

There will be a feasting tonight," said Malu, trying to lighten the atmosphere. "We can discuss your request then." "That's not necessary," said Flor. "But it is," the lemur argued. "You see, we can welcome you either as enemies or as guests. There will be a feasting either way.

Outside, beyond where the light from our window fell, there was a deep inner well. The roof in which these rooms were built dropped steeply away, and facing us across the void were other similar dormers, unlit, their windows open into shadowy stillness. Above the roofline the sky was amorously transformed by the pink glare of the London dusk.

England being England, weather is changeable.

My favourite setting are England, because I was born here and love it, and Spain, because it's fabulous and so romantic.

I found the hum of his computer rather soothing, but it was the complete lack of unicorn carcasses that really pulled the room together.