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Quotes About Atmosphere

The fall air pokes Konrad like the needles of evergreens. He feels snappish and half wild.
~ Donna Jo Napoli
You could tell a lot about the soul of an organization by the reading material in its waiting area.
~ Dorothea Benton Frank
He waited for her to say more but only silence roiled about them.
~ Dorothy B. Hughes
Safe…It was true that the chilly grey summer day, the hissing of steam, the shouting and bustle of a busy London railway terminal, and the constantly belching smoke, did constitute a menacing atmosphere to such new arrivals from another world.
~ Dorothy Eden
In the summer Darkwater was beautiful. It was as if its happier ghosts—perhaps there were summertime ghosts—lived then.
~ Dorothy Eden
Nothing goes so well with a hot fire and buttered crumpets as a wet day without and a good dose of comfortable horrors within. The heavier the lashing of the rain and the ghastlier the details, the better the flavour seems to be.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
The best way to keep children home is to make the home a pleasant atmosphere . . . and let the air out of the tires.
~ Dorothy Parker
The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant --- and let the air out of their tires.
~ Dorothy Parker
The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires.
~ Dorothy Parker
For any unfamiliar with the concept of nuclear winter, basically this is when so much smoke and soot are released into the atmosphere as a result of multiple nuclear blasts, that the sun is blotted out for extended periods of time, leading to catastrophic cooling.
~ Douglas E. Richards
Limbic consonance is the little-known process through which the mood of a room changes when a happy or nervous person walks in.
~ Douglas Rushkoff
A loving atmosphere in your home is the foundation for your life.
~ Dalai Lama
How people are around a director, it really does affect everything, every detail of the life of the movie.
~ Daniel Day-Lewis
The science is clear that there is an increase in the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere. What is not clear from the science is how much of that increase is caused by human activity and what also is not clear is what impact those increases have on the climatic cycle.
~ Jim Sensenbrenner
Men flourish in an atmosphere of praise, encouragement, and positive support. Conversely, criticism kills a man's spirit and is like emotional kryptonite to him.
~ Jimmy Evans
However, that's not where heaven is now. Ephesians 4:8 says when Jesus ascended, "He led captivity captive." He both descended and ascended. He emptied Abraham's bosom, taking everyone with Him up to the third heaven, where believers who die go now. The first heaven is our atmosphere around us right now. The second is what we call outer space. And the third heaven is the presence of God.
~ Jimmy Evans
the silence behind her was closing and thickening, and becoming coloured, like water into which a brilliant dye is being poured
~ Joan Aiken
The weeping elm at the window was murmurous with gossiping doves.
~ Joan Lindsay
That night the mountain mist came rolling down from the pine forest and lingered far into the morning.
~ Joan Lindsay
She smiled up at him. 'The edge of dark. I love the way you say things here.' 'It's just talk to folks up here.' 'I suppose so, but to my ears it sounds poetic.
~ Ann H. Gabhart
The light in Lisen and Geoff's apartment was warm, as was the atmosphere, and it poured around us like heated cream.
~ Ann Howard Creel
The passage of time, and the details that spun some moments into unforgettable memories and others into thin air, traveled with Sylvie--the swirling atmosphere of her own life--while she walked.
~ Ann Napolitano
it was the beginning of November, and New York City was toying with the idea of winter.
~ Ann Napolitano
Though it was no lighted up by the setting sun, the gothic greatness of its features and its moulding walls of dark grey stone, rendered it a gloomy and sublime object.
~ Ann Radcliffe