Quotes About Atmosphere

If amino acids can only be made where there is no free oxygen in the atmosphere, and porphyrins can only be made when there is free oxygen, then these things needed by every cell could not have existed together to form the first cell! What's more, many of these compounds are antagonistic. They will combine and destroy each other—anywhere except within a living cell.

Sûrement la Seine était rouge ce jour-là, de nuit on voyait pas

The atmosphere was happy. Maybe a little forced. They were welcomed at the reception desk by a cheerful woman who spoke to them as she would to the bereaved, except not exactly. A little livelier. A unique tone. Maybe part of her training. Maybe learned in role play class. As if visitors to an old people's home made up a unique demographic. Not the recently bereaved. The soon to be. The pre-bereaved.

Eventually he was led to a small hot room. The air was full of flies, moving slowly. Two men sat on pillows, both bearded, one short and fat, the other tall and lean. Both were in plain white robes and plain white turbans. The

They had already decided among themselves to keep it lean. It was felt someone else's cryptic half-remembered childhood legends would not survive a formal one-against-seven across-the-table grilling. It was felt a casual atmosphere would be more productive. A smaller gathering. Sinclair and Reacher and Neagley had already been chosen ahead of time. So

New warmth stirred the air, and the wheat moved and eddied, with a whispered rustle, as if waking up.

The house makes me feel bad," he said. "You make me feel good. I only know how I feel.

I felt laden. Air itself has weight and mass, and Kansas had the most air of anywhere I'd ever been.

The drink was a storm cloud with coffee thundering around inside it.

Most men, however, do not consider such issues in explicit terms. They absorb their ideas—implicitly, eclectically, and with many contradictions—from the cultural atmosphere around them, building into their souls without identifying it the various ideological vibrations emanating from school and church and arts and media and mores.

The air moves like a river and carries the clouds with it; just as running water carries all the things that float upon it.

the life of the planet began the long, slow process of modulating and regulating the physical conditions of the planet. The oxygen in today's atmosphere is almost entirely the result of photosynthetic living, which had its start with the appearance of blue-green algae among the microorganisms.

I am creating an atmosphere! Oh, Unc, we've finally got bodies in this joint! Paying bodies. We could have a good racket going here." "I'm not interested in a 'racket.' I'm an academic." "That's okay, Unc. I won't hold it against you.

Maybe he would kill one of them for fun. Maybe not. Mood was everything.

El viento lo observa todo con indiferencia. Al fin y al cabo, no es más que el viento.

He also entered a bookstore called "Books 'n' Stuff," that stocked more videos and greeting cards than books. Furthermore, its supermarket lighting and background music discouraged browsing. Qwilleran had his own ideas about the correct ambiance for a bookstore: dim, quiet, and slightly dusty.

There couldn't be anything more perfect, she thought, than slow dancing, barefoot, on a balcony in New Orleans, while the rain poured down and twilight wrapped around them

The bar lights glittered on the wet pavement, and jazz wailed out of the open doors of the bars, collinding with the more discordant, driving beats coming from the strip joints, where bored-looking dancers, both male and female, gyrated their hips and humped poles and pretended to be sexy.

room. Angus cleared his throat, and Rafe and Kade stared down at their plates, all signs of their previous amusement

Society is the atmosphere of souls; and we necessarily imbibe from it something which is either infectious or healthful.

Public opinion is the atmosphere of society, without which the forces of the individual would collapse, and all the institutions of society fly into atoms.

...heaven for climate, and hell for society.

The astronomical community need to start acknowledging jet aircraft contrails to be the problem that they really are!

I always wanted to get married with just candles! I think candlelight is the most beautiful light there is and there's something very spiritual about it.