Quotes About Atmosphere

On winter mornings the light spread like a watery broth over the landscape.

The hotel was a blazing citadel, a palace of electricity in the city's cold gloom.

I can see the darkness winding around me like silk ribbons, streaming and flapping in a wind that is not there.

What is mikkary?" "The feeling a room gets when there's been murder done in it," Mildmay said. Kay's face was very still for a moment; then he said slowly, "Yes, I know that feeling well.

What a benediction is this fragrance of the early morning! The vernal grass fills the whole atmosphere as with a shower of sweetness.

The sky is grey, with a thin TV-static drizzle that hangs in the air like it's been freeze-framed.

There was the smell of old books, a smell that has a way of making all libraries seem the same. Some say that smell is asbestos.

The canals went gray and turgid, thickening like blood in the veins of a ripening corpse.

American scientists blew up a hydrogen bomb that was a hundred times as powerful as the one used in Hiroshima right outside the atmosphere in the summer of 1962, just to find out what would happen.

shimmered behind the clouds as if the black birds were swimming against a frothy tide. The hardwood trees on the surrounding Appalachian slopes were gone to gold and scarlet, and the strange light hinted at the gray winter waiting ahead. One of the crows turned, and its eyes flashed with fire. A blood-chilling caw cracked the brittle air. Rachel slid her

There's something about old houses at sunset...they are ghosts made of wood, softening in the dusk that comes upon them like a tide.

He sits, strong and blunt as a Celtic cross, Clearly used to silence and an armchair: Tonight the wife and children will be quiet At slammed door and smoker's cough in the hall.

Fear was there, too, cold and hot at the same time, making everything in the plain room sharper, with fewer shadows.

To extract the fullest flavor of our drinking house, we needed to spend serious evening time there, slowly coming to know the bartender and the regulars, their joys and sorrows.

A good show makes me happy. It's a great sensation. If you could capture a great atmosphere and do it every time, that would be amazing.

A lot of the time in music you get to see the place you play, or around the place you play, but that's it.

I have Vie Luxe candles in every room. In 2006 I spent the month of August in Sardinia, and the scent reminds me of the wonderful time we had.

One hundred percent of the time, no plea bargain, no bail, you're going to the penitentiary - that will change the atmosphere in this culture of violence the president talks about.

Setting ... is accident. Either a building is part of a place, or it is not. Once that kinship is there, time will only make it stronger.

The bookstore and the coffeehouse are natural allies; Neither has a time limit, slowness is encouraged.

Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.

Tom's whole being applauded this idea. It was deep, and dark, and awful; the hour, the circumstances, the surroundings, were in keeping with it.

When I got there it was all still and Sunday-like, and hot and sunshiny - the hands was gone to the fields; and there was them kind of faint dronings of bugs an flies in the air that makes it seem so lonesome and like everybody's dead and gone; and if a breeze fans along and quivers the leaves, it makes you feel mournful, because you feel like it's spirits whispering - spirits that's been dead ever so many years - and you always think they're talking about you.

If you think it ain't dismal and lonesome out in a fog that way, by yourself, in the night, you try it once – you'll see.