Quotes About Ambiance

He strode down the empty street, cleaving the low-lying mists that swirled like incandescent cloaks in the gaslight.

So imagine a fire going -- wood snapping the way it does when it's a little green — the wind rattling the windows behind the curtains -- and one of those Chopin melodies that feel like sorrow and ecstasy all mixed together pouring from the keys -- and you have my idea of happiness. Or just reading, reading and lamplight, the sound of pages turning. And so you dare to be happy. You do that thing. You dare.

I have a big problem with piped music. I like either silence or to listen to it properly.

I invented the phrase: "Music not to be listened to." That was my commercial phrase with which I sold Muzak. It was the first music deliberately created to which people were not supposed to listen. It was a new kind of background music. That's why my mother, who was a fine musician, held it in contempt. She wouldn't have it in her apartment. Anybody who knows anything about music holds Muzak in contempt.

As for the financial world - I've been working in the Forbes building for eight years. You soak up a little bit of ambient stuff about all this - I know what a gold straddle is, what the Lombard rate is.

Even colors were important to me. If it was a somber scene, the colors were muted and dark. If it was a happy or seductive scene, the colors were brighter.

There's something about a humid, dusky evening that's kind of sexy.

The dreamy days and sticky nights of summer were already calling, as if anything could happen.

Una geiko de categoría es maestra en el arte de crear un ambiente de distensión y esparcimiento, sin embargo, yo no disfruto en particular con la compañía de otros. Una geiko de renombre nunca está sola, pero yo siempre he amado la soledad. ¿No es extraño? Parece que hubiese escogido de forma deliberada el camino que entrañaba para mí mayores dificultades, una senda que me obligase a afrontar y superar mis limitaciones personales.

He was waiting for me at the best table in the room, toying with a glass of white wine and listening to the pianist who was playing a piece by Granados with velvet fingers.

I have candles, pictures and flowers on my nightstand... and of course a lamp!

One of my favorite albums that I've been listening to lately is 'Midnight Machines' by Lights.

The thing as an actor is you get a sense of what a show is like the minute you walk on the set.

The air's okay," Jake

It is not how you walk, or where, or how far. It is all in the sound of the steps and how the night receives them.

Bridge; candles were being lit in the four-storey houses

Ambian?a o lini?ti automat: lumina abundent? a felinarelor, mirosul de hârtie ?i piele ?i faptul c?, oriunde privea, vedea numai c?r?i, c?r?i ?i iar c?r?i.

Indeed, it required a nose both subtle and unprejudiced to understand and appreciate and thoroughly enjoy that Paris—not the Paris of M. le Baron Haussmann, lighted by gas and electricity, and flushed and drained by modern science; but the "good old Paris" of Balzac and Eugène Sue and Les Mystères—the Paris of dim oil-lanterns suspended from iron gibbets (where once aristocrats had been hung);

Because whatever I hear outside, cars scrunching down the narrow, council-house streets, sometimes sweeping their headlights across this fusty old room, drunks challenging or serenading the world, or the rending shrieks of cats taking their torturous pleasures, I know I won't hear that noise.

se enamoró de su porte aristocrático, su apellido y el ambiente que lo rodeaba.

We want to create an atmosphere in which creation is possible.

I'm trying to do what I have never done - give the impression one has on entering a room: one sees everything and at the same time nothing.

You set the tone on the set that you want to see in the film.

The place did kind of resemble a locker room if locker rooms were gorgeous and smelled good.