Quotes About Ambiance

while the jukebox sang softly to itself.

The sun was beginning to fade, though, and the air - slightly chilled as it slid through the trees - carried with it just the barest hint of rain.

I estimated the ambient humidity at roughly a thousand percent, but tipped a little of my sweetened coffee into the saucer and blew on it nonetheless.

You have to create your own atmosphere.

When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,' ambiance to ambiance.

Often when you're working on dark material, the atmosphere is fun.

I've always felt Twickenham has a special aura.

The thing I learned from watching Iain Glen and Brendan Gleeson, and Aidan Gillen and Michael Fassbender when I worked with them, there's a huge element of leading something. It's the atmosphere and dynamic you're creating on set.

I'm a food environmentalist. I'm about the food and the ambiance.

Firelight will not let you read fine stories but it's warm and you won't see the dust on the floor.

Every silence consists of the network of minuscule sounds that enfolds it." - from "The Adventure of a Poet

But I want to be sure they know the difference between fluff and substance, between cleverness and excellence. Now and again I see a restaurant try to lift itself to success by reinventing its ambiance, introducing a new menu and rearranging its tables when quite clearly what it needs is better food. Often churches and preachers follow the same course. No wonder such efforts end in disappointment.

Real writers - serious writers with serious subjects, who earn their living at it - all seem to write in small rooms with that knotty-pine 1974 look on the top-floor rear of their houses. Rooms with views.

There in the middle of the rooftop—in a circle of lighted candles scented with the smell of vanilla—sat a four-poster bed adorned with throw pillows.

It were the sort of mist that soaked into your flesh, into your being, so it were like you were one with it...

Tea lights were lit and placed on the table and around the garden, so that it looked like large fireflies had settled in for the evening.

Gamache bit into a grilled chicken and roasted vegetable baguette and decided he was going to enjoy mealtimes in this place.

[O]ne can dream so much better in a room where there are pretty things.

Pulling down his hat he lingered on the street corner, melting back against a grimy wall of London brick.

Design is defined by light and shade, and appropriate lighting is enormously important.

What we remember most about rooms we like is the 'atmosphere.'

At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.

I believe in naturalistic lighting, which isn't to say natural light.

I don't know under what lighting I can play Juliet. Maybe with a small night light illuminating the stage.