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Quotes About Ambiance

The night was filled with insects and a hesitant breeze that seemed to change direction with each gust.
~ Abby Geni, The Wildlands, 2018
them. A fire crackled in one corner, and a grand piano
~ Hampton Sides
White ceiling tiles. Low-energy bulbs in cylindrical down-lighters. Walls and chairs in Hospital Yellow. A colour so blatantly designed to soothe those in medical distress that it makes me want to bubble blood from the corners of my mouth, just to show it who's boss. 'I
~ Harry Bingham
The bar had the ambiance of a Chevron station mini-mart and the odor of someone deep-frying fish in a men's locker room.
~ Lee Goldberg
Coffitivity.com.
~ James Scott Bell
Pulp doesn't bog us down with thematic ambiguity or thick flights of circumlocutory style. (I consulted a thesaurus to get circumlocutory, which is exactly the kind of thing pulp doesn't do.) Pulp is escapist and entertaining. And there's absolutely nothing wrong with that.
~ James Scott Bell
the classroom, surrounded by the clatter of massed old-fashioned typewriters and the chatter of ex-debs whose main claim to distinction seemed to be the
~ Jane Hawking
I'm very easily distracted unless I have music on. Listening to music while I brainstorm makes me think of scenes that would fit the mood of the music I'm playing.
~ Maggie Stiefvater
I always have music. I love it to be very upbeat. When you're having drinks, I like something like Cesaria Evora. During dinner, I like the much more traditional - old Frank Sinatra and things like that.
~ Ina Garten
Work a great deal at evening effects, lamplight, candlelight, etc. The intriguing thing is not to show the source of the light but the effect of the lighting.
~ Edgar Degas
I'm partial to coffee shops, brain work, and poems on the page. I write after midnight. Sometimes, twisty syntax happens, and I surrender.
~ Marvin Bell
I can't work without it [music]. And it has to be the right kind, because if it's not then I get into a bad mood. I work with a remote so that I can change CDs instantly if I need to.
~ Cindy Sherman
I didn't know I was doing film noir, I thought they were detective stories with low lighting!
~ Marie Windsor
One of the biggest mistakes I see in the bedroom is that they plan to be doing things other than sleeping in the bedroom. They will have a desk in there for working, or they'll have a big shelf in there for storing things. It should be all about relaxing.
~ Jonathan Scott
The "aura of exclusivity" is really code for "bad atmosphere.
~ Timothy Ferriss
Álbum para «fluir»: «Gran Hotel Buenos Aires», de Federico Aubele.
~ Timothy Ferriss
I bring incense, essential oils, and candles to make my hotel room feel more like home.
~ Jamie Anderson
There is a fog, sir. If you will recollect, we are now in Autumn – season of mists and mellow fruitfulness.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
restaurant in the rain, and note what time someone
~ P.G. Wodehouse
There are all sorts of restaurants in London—from the restaurant which makes you fancy you are in Paris to the restaurant which makes you wish you were.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
We're in business—romantic lighting," she dryly intoned. "Ha ha ha.
~ Pamela Burford
Natural light does wonders," Beña replied. "As does the presence of people.
~ Dan Brown
You could say the place had a pious atmosphere. It was an atmosphere that I finally had to think about, and when I thought about it I had to admit that I could not get comfortable in it; I could not breathe a full breath in it.
~ Wendell Berry
one should carry a small candle about the corners of a room radiant with a central light.
~ Will Durant