Quotes About Atmosphere

The sun was barely above the trees and any moment it would disappear. There was a golden haze in the air and it was appreciably colder than even a few minutes before. A cloud of starlings wheeled above a distant stand of poplars, still bare, although in the next garden a willow trailed weeping branches like streamers of pale chiffon. The breeze was so slight it did not even stir them.

She had understood before she had ever dreamed of a city such as this, where every texture, every color, leapt out at you, where every fragrance was a drug, and the air itself was something alive and breathing.

New Orleans, city of roaches, city of decay, city of our family, and of happy, happy people.

He thought of the Englishman at the bar in the lobby again. That's what had brought it all back — the Englishman remarking to the bartender that he'd just come from New Orleans, and that certainly was a haunted city.

the abominable British weather." It is a country "only a Druid could love

The blowing mist, filled with the light of the moon, was seeking to swallow the lamps of the heavens.

There's always been a demeanor to Mekare

The moon that rose over New Orleans then still rises. As

The humming of the birds was becoming hypnotic, and again there came a low hiss of rain.

Don't you sense the danger?' I whispered to her. 'Can't you breathe it like the air?

Into the darker regions of Venice I traveled, the mist hanging thick over the canals, to those dimly lighted places where ruffians abound.

There was general laughter. It seemed to blend rather bewitchingly with the music around us, and the glare of so many candles.

She had understood before she had ever dreamed of a city such as this, where every texture, every color, leapt out at you, where every fragrance was a drug, and the air itself was something alive and breathing. I

Justine's childhood was dark and velvety and it smelled of dust.

When we lose our innocence - when we start feeling the weight of the atmosphere and learn that there's death in the pot - we take leave of our sense.

The horizon, bloody with the sunset, dulls with smoke and churned-up dirt.

Recalling the atmosphere of this period, Mark Pincus remarked, "There were about six people that I knew who were interested in doing anything in the consumer internet, and we all kind of went to the same two coffee shops.

At any time and in any place I find moonlight very moving.

I opened my letter to Margaret by describing the scene—I always enjoy receiving a letter when the writer locates himself or herself in a definite place, and I like to know if there is a cup of tea at hand, or how the light is falling in the room or beyond the window. Such descriptions transcend the barriers of time and space and give reader and writer the illusion that they are together.

It's true we have an affinity for evil. What she told me had occurred in an atmosphere much like that of Troilus and Cressida, in which the faithful are betrayed and the brave are slain. I was reminded of Emerson's "Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.

Thus the diffuse character attributed to terrorism is reproduced in an enveloping atmosphere whose effect is to arouse a primal fear about the precariousness of every moment in daily life, to surround the most taken-for-granted routines with uncertainty.

There are some who go through life with a shadow hanging over them, particularly if they live in a building which has long wide awnings.

Now we notice that Mars doesn't have any atmosphere either and won't support life. In spite of the fact that it turns green and red and purple with the seasons, it doesn't support life.

Why does everybody agree that atmospheric oxygen comes from life, but no one speaks about the other gases coming from life?