Quotes About Ambiance

The very air they breathed was almost a juice.

Darky ate slowly, enjoying every morsel, his mouth salivating so wildly that he worried at the loud sloshing sound he made. But it was lost in all the other wet noises of the night.

Sit yourself down, Joan instructed as we reached the the fag-fogged, gin-scented den that was nominally her sitting room.

He also loved candelabra.

So benumbed are we nowadays by electric lights that we have become utterly insensitive to the evils of excessive illumination

Pero cuando, sustituidas éstas (las lámparas eléctricas con pantalla de papel) por los candelabros, de luz todavía más tenue, se observan las bandejas y boles bajo el parpadeo de la trémula llama, se descubre cómo el brillo de todos esos objetos lacados, hondo y espeso como las aguas de un estanque, va revistiéndose de un encanto completamente diferente al que había mostrado hasta entonces.

There's nothing I don't love about 'Mad Men.'

I spend hundreds of pounds a year on candles and it is such a waste of money. It is burning cash whatever way you look at it but I love them.

I know [canned music] makes chickens lay more eggs and factory workers produce more. But how much more can they get out of you on an elevator?

Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

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

Music, the mosaic of the air.

I hate restaurants that play music. You come out for a quiet meal, and you're supposed to put up with all this booming. Why? It's madness!

I like walking in the solitary dark street than the crowded shining street.

Speaking of provincial playhouses, I said they were usually sandwiched between two public-houses, from which they were distinguishable mainly by their flaunting posters and some hideous flare of gas. As for London theatres, I said they were at best like swagger restaurants.

The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.

Any room where you feel a good vibe is a good place to write.

I have a great office.

I felt a wish never to leave that room - a wish that dawn might never come, that my present frame of mind might never change.

If I could have dinner with anyone who lived in history, it would depend on the restaurant.

I have way too many candles. Theres always a candle burning at home.

This place can't be heaven, it doesn't have the right vibe.

Soak blanket in gravy and make a delicious brick wrap. Serve in All Gravy Room at the Mandrake Hotel.

light can change the atmosphere in dark places