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Quotes About Ambiance

It was not a jolly place at all for a sun-loving soul
~ Dawn Powell
I no longer want to live in an apartment furnished with forklifts and backhoes.
~ Nicholson Baker
the daylight subdued by four red walls with narrow white stripes adopted a pink glow which lent faces and every last detail a mysterious grace and a fantastical quality…Sunbeams fell across the house obliquely, wrapping around it like a scarf, cutting across the parlor, expiring in a peculiar sheen on the paneling along the walls that backed onto the courtyard, and enveloping [the] woman in the scarlet zone projected by the damask curtain draped along the window.
~ Honore de Balzac
It was a nice night. A pleasant evening. There seemed to be stars somewhere and it was easy to avoid stepping in the garbage and dog shit on the streets. A truly beautiful night. Tony
~ Unknown
It's six o'clock; my drink is at the three-quarter mark - three-quarters down not three-quarters up - and the night begins. ("New York Blues")
~ Cornell Woolrich
Texture is very important. Just the feel of everything. It's not always about recording everything in pristine quality and having everything mixed where it's absolutely perfect. It's more about a vibe.
~ Washed Out
I'll put candles all over the room, then light then, and get to it. I call it my 'vibe in a bag.'
~ Jody Watley
There's definitely a whole different vibe on the set when there's like basically royalty working with us. We could have whatever we wanted. I felt like Britney Spears.
~ Taryn Manning
Maybe in the future, you'll be able to understand what I'm saying. I'm going more for an atmospheric vibe in my songs. And I really don't want to ruin the illusions people may create for themselves.
~ Washed Out
You kind of invite a little spooky, creepy vibe into your whole experience of making a movie.
~ Bruce Greenwood
When I start a movie, there will be certain films that I watch again just because the vibe seems right.
~ Noah Baumbach
I think when you're on a show that takes place in N.Y.C. but film it in L.A. there is just a vibe that feels wrong.
~ Merritt Wever
I'm a fan of creating the mood and vibe with flowers, candles, and music. I love making my guests feel like it's not formal and they can relax in my home.
~ Karen Elson
I actually cannot stand a room without a view - I would rather have a bedroom the size of a closet with a view over a suite without one.
~ Amy Landecker
cupids instead. The plates with the remnants of that evening's
~ Liza Marklund
May your Valentine's Day dinner have the romantic lighting of a stadium blackout.
~ Unknown
The lamps are burning and the starry sky is over it all.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
The drapery was so thick and the furniture so cloaked that I half expected to find Sherlock Holmes thumb-wrestling with Jane Austen in the corner. It wasn't as dusty or smoky as one expects a parlor to be, but all the wood had the weight of card catalogs and the fabric seemed soaked in wine. Knee-high sculptures perched in corners and by the fireplace, while jacketless books crowded on shelves, peering down like old professors too tired to speak to one another.
~ Rachel Cohn
by the fire while—or "whilst," as the Brits say
~ Rachel Cohn
Moving room to room, she lowers the pleated shades at all the windows.
~ Dean Koontz
The wall clock and her wristwatch had stopped, their sweep hands no longer wiping away the seconds, and the digital clock on the microwave had gone dark, as if something that lived outside of time had stepped into this world and brought its clockless ambiance with it.
~ Dean Koontz
One of the three candles burned out, and darkness eagerly pulled its chair a little closer to the table.
~ Dean Koontz
It was raining. Gigantic ferns leaned over us. The forest drifted down a hill. I could hear a creek rushing down among rocks. And you, you ridiculous people, you expect me to help you.
~ Denis Johnson
It was raining. Gigantic ferns leaned over us. The forest drifted down a hill. I could hear a creek rushing down among the rocks. And you, you ridiculous people, you expect me to help you.
~ Denis Johnson