Quotes About Atmosphere

During all of dinner the singing went on upstairs, and no one said a word.

looking up and down the street, which managed, even in the sunlight, to be dark and ugly.

You think we are right to stay?" "Right?" he said. "I think we are all incredibly silly to stay. I think that an atmosphere like this one can find out the flaws and faults and weaknesses in all of us, and break us apart in a matter of days.

Materializations are often best produced in rooms where there are books.

Right?" he said. "I think we are all incredibly silly to stay. I think that an atmosphere like this one can find out the flaws and faults and weaknesses in all of us, and break us apart in a matter of days. We have only one defense, and that is running away. At least it can't follow us, can it? When we feel ourselves endangered we can leave, just as we came. And," he added dryly, "just as fast as we can go.

A horizontal band of amber sunlight smoldered beneath banks of gunmetal clouds, like lamplight leaking from beneath a closed door.

The heat was thick as curtains. Night was fixing to slide over the world and the cicadas were calming down for that hushed time between daylight and darkness, when crickets rosined their bows.

Give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and i am in my own proper atmosphere. I crave for mental exaltation. That is why I have chosen my own particular profession, or rather created it.

Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader, not the fact that it's raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.

Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader, not the fact that it's raining, but the feeling of being rained upon." The

Just as people can be toxic or have bad vibes, so can places.

The atmosphere in the admin department also seemed very false. My suspicions were aroused when two employees spontaneously started singing the Panther Corporation song. I didn't even know there was a Panther Corporation song.

It hasn't snowed like this for years. Real, proper snow. Dickensian snow

Rain drops are not the ones who bring the clouds.

The reason I'm being positive is to make everyone around me to get the positive energy

The general knowledge of time on the island depends, curiously enough, on the direction of the wind.

When I was writing The Shadow of the Glen… I got more aid than any learning could have given me from a chink in the floor of the old Wicklow house where I was staying, that let me hear what was being said by the servant girls in the kitchen.

If you endeavor to bring a holy hush upon your people in a worship service, you can be assured that someone will say that the atmosphere is unfriendly or cold. All that many people can imagine is that the absence of chatter would mean the presence of stiffness and awkwardness and unfriendliness. Since they have little or no experience of the deep gladness of momentous moments of gravity, they strive for gladness the only way they know how—by being lighthearted and chipper and talkative.

Experience has decided that the early morning air is much more inspiring and vigorous than the evening. What is the law? Is not the atmosphere, like all other substances and tissues, spoiled of its energy by the action of light and heat? Does it not, like the vegetable and animal kingdom, require rest? After a night's rest it is recruited and young again.

It is beautiful when it rains far away in the distance, the bright sun shining on the mound on which you stand, and only a few guerilla drops heralding the approach of the shower towards you.

The silence of the building closed around him like a shroud.

Take a straw and throw it up into the air—you shall see by that which way the wind is.

He was smiling at the blimp, happier than Cirocco had ever seen him.

Books have their idiosyncrasies as well as people, and will not show me their full beauties unless the place and time in which they are read suits them.