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Quotes About Atmosphere

It was a soft breathless June morning, with a promise of sultriness later...
~ John Buchan
One such club activity was a dance that was held after the regular service in an adjacent hall. Qutb describes the seductive atmosphere of the occasion: "The dance hall was illuminated with red, blue and a few white lights. It convulsed to the tunes of the gramophone and was full of bounding feet and seductive legs. Arms circled waists, lips met lips, chests met chests, and the atmosphere was full of passion.
~ John Calvert
For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain [and] the noise of battle.
~ John Cheever
It was the kind of bar where everybody knew your name, as long as your name was 'Motherfucker'.
~ John Connolly
drinking whisky in kitchens by candlelight, drinking with men who have failed and men who have yet to fail. He wishes
~ John Connolly
chased by the shadows of clouds.
~ John Connolly
carried the smell of the streets with him.
~ John Connolly
it takes time to get used to a strange house, especially one as old as this. Even I sometimes find myself looking over my shoulder when I'm alone in it. It's the way of such places, isn't it? They wear their history heavily.
~ John Connolly
Typical stars, like our Sun, emit a wind of electrically-charged particles from their surface which will strip off the atmospheres of orbiting planets unless the wind can be deflected by a planetary magnetic field. In our solar system the Earth's magnetic field has protected its atmosphere from the solar wind but Mars, unprotected by any magnetic field, lost its atmosphere long ago.
~ John D. Barrow
The smell of rain is rich with life.
~ Estela Portillo Trambley
Life can be thought of as water kept at the right temperature in the right atmosphere in the right light for a long enough period of time.
~ N.J. Berrill
The whole house seemed to exhale a melancholy breath of emptiness
~ Michael Chabon
I was the life and she was the soul of every party.
~ Cecelia Ahern
When the moon shines very brilliantly, a solitude and stillness seem to proceed from her that influence even crowded places full of life.
~ Charles Dickens
liked her roommates—everything was upbeat.
~ Edward Keyes
When storm-clouds brood on the towering heightsOf the hills of the Chankly Bore.
~ Edward Lear
He breathed, with his assistant, the dust of the much-handled merchandise, the imaginable odors of sweat and pride and weeping; and it was an indefinable yet powerful atmosphere, which gave them an intimacy neither desired.
~ Edward Lewis Wallant
Leave and change the situation and atmosphere, not the relationship and beloved ones.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
No matter how beautiful and fragrant the rose stays, it naturally blooms between the thorns, which no one embraces the thorny rose. Similarly, no matter how lovely can be a family head, but its old trend principles and self-restricted thoughts certainly cause a bitter, even poisonous atmosphere.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
HSPs can be instantly aware, whether they wish to be or not, of the mood, the friendships and enmities, the freshness or staleness of the air, the personality of the one who arranged the flowers.
~ Elaine N. Aron
HAARP HAARP stands for High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program. It was made to "beam 1.7 gigawatts (billion watts) of radiated power into the ionosphere—the electrically-charged layer above Earth's atmosphere."26
~ Eldon taylor
Like all the stories I wrote at that time, it was based on an unusual atmosphere that had impressed me in real life. I thought that was the point of writing stories: to make up a chain of events that would somehow account for a certain mood—for how it came about and for what it led to.
~ Elif Batuman
Later we were at another party in a dorm. Why did all parties sound and smell the same, even though the component people were different? It was as if all the different individuals came together and formed the eternal entity Party Person.
~ Elif Batuman
A low bluish cloudbank was rapidly encroaching over the starry black vault of the sky.
~ Elif Batuman