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Quotes About Atmosphere

If I ran a national burger franchise - which I don't - I'd make it a rule that no two customers can be greeted with precisely the same words and that every third customer must be grossly insulted as a matter of course. Just to keep the atmosphere nice and lively. And to keep the staff laughing.
~ Charlie Brooker
It takes more discipline than you might imagine to think, even for thirty seconds, in the noisy, confusing, high-pressure atmosphere of a film set. But a few seconds' thought can often prevent a serious mistake being made about something that looks good at first glance.
~ Stanley Kubrick
My favorite film score is the one Thomas Bangalter created for 'Irreversible.' The soundtrack absolutely defines the daymare-into-nightmare feeling you get from the film.
~ Richard Phillips
A photographer must be prepared to catch and hold on to those elements which give distinction to the subject or lend it atmosphere.
~ Bill Brandt
Even though it was six o'clock, there was no sense of approaching dawn.
~ Mary Higgins Clark
Even the cleanest air, at the centre of the South Pacific or somewhere over Antarctica, has two hundred thousand assorted bits and pieces in every lungful. And this count rises to two million or more in the thick of the Serengeti migration, or over a six-lane highway during rush hour in downtown Los Angeles.
~ Lyall Watson
I like those older theaters - the acoustics are perfect, I mean, you just have that feel of there's been a thousand shows in there and now you get to be one.
~ Billy Gardell
I mean, if you go to a rock gig and someone plays a ballad it can still really come across, even though there's a hundred thousand people there.
~ Gary Moore
As the last note sobbed to death, we came face to face, closer than was natural, our steps meshed in the confined space.
~ Rosemary Hawley Jarman
Behind the semi-elliptical bar four cowboys who had never been near a cow sang western songs which sounded as if they had originated in the far east.
~ Ross MacDonald
The sun, heavy and red, was almost down on the horizon now. Its image floated like spilled fire on the water. The
~ Ross MacDonald
I could smell fog even at this level now. It was rolling down from the mountains, flooding out the moon, as well as rising from the sea. The
~ Ross MacDonald
When your love contracts in anger, the atmosphere itself feels threatening. But when you're expansive, no matter what the weather, you're in an open, windy field with friends.
~ Rumi
Maybe it's just the morning light, but he looks pretty cool standing there with his sword.
~ Rumiko Takahashi
Shouldering the stars! That is how I always think of Simla—standing on the Ridge and looking up through the clear air into the vault of the heavens, where the stars seem so much nearer… And they are reflected below, in the myriad lights of the shops and houses.
~ Ruskin Bond
think a person who has a subdued settled despair in his mind would all of a sudden feel a kind of bounding and exalting cheerfulness which will be imparted to his frame by the atmosphere of Duiri Tal.   This
~ Ruskin Bond
British rain was rarely that simple. For days on end, instead of falling, it simply hung around in the air like a wife waiting for you to notice she was sulking.
~ Ruth Downie
The landscape which, a few weeks earlier, had been blotted out by dust was now hazy with moisture.
~ Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
That's what I like so much about libraries, they smell the way we would like to imagine the past.
~ Ruth Reichl
Nice place," I said while prudently hovering near the only exit.
~ S.L. Viehl
Now, every child does have the necessary intelligence. You create an atmosphere for him to grow into his intelligence rather than superimposing your rottenness on him.
~ Sadhguru
Karma can be compared to a seed. Before the rains, the whole land is barren. There would be nothing. It rains; suddenly all kinds of vegetation will sprout up. The seeds are already there; they're just waiting for the right kind of atmosphere.
~ Sadhguru
curtains of Serena's apartment—often
~ Mandy M. Roth
as the clouds lit silver, purple, and blue with electricity.
~ Mandy M. Roth