100+ Atmosphere Quotes | InspiringQuotes.us

source: Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Claude C. Hopkins (2014). “Scientific Advertising - Masters of Marketing Secrets: From the First Great Copywriter”, p.51, Lulu.com

topic: Writing, Atmosphere, Should

The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.

- Claude Monet

topic: Garden, Light, Atmosphere

As far as the radio waves part of the spectrum, we can do these adequately from the ground because the atmosphere is basically transparent to our radio waves.

- Claude Nicollier

topic: Atmosphere, Radio, Wave, Radio Waves

I don't feel that an atmosphere of debate and total disagreement and argument is such a bad thing. It makes for a vital and alive field.

- Clifford Geertz

topic: Atmosphere, Fields, Alive, Disagreement

New Orleans may well have been the most liberal Deep South city in 1954 because of its large Creole population, the influence of the French, and its cosmopolitan atmosphere.

- Constance Baker Motley

topic: New Orleans, Cities, Atmosphere, Creole

Since Humanism as a functioning credo is so closely bound up with the methods of reason and science, plainly free speech and democracy are its very lifeblood. For reason and scientific method can flourish only in an atmosphere of civil liberties.

- Corliss Lamont

topic: Atmosphere, Democracy, Liberty, Credo, Humanism

I was reared in the conservative atmosphere of a Methodist parsonage.

- Countee Cullen

source: Countee Cullen, Gerald Lyn Early (1991). “My soul's high song: the collected writings of Countee Cullen, voice of the Harlem Renaissance”, Doubleday Books

topic: Atmosphere, Conservative, Methodists

Compassion naturally creates a positive atmosphere, and as a result you feel peaceful and content.

- Dalai Lama

topic: Compassion, Peaceful, Atmosphere

As our own peace of mind grows, so the atmosphere around us becomes more peaceful.

- Dalai Lama

topic: Peaceful, Atmosphere, Mind

A loving atmosphere in your home is the foundation for your life.

- Dalai Lama

topic: Buddhist, Home, Atmosphere

The atmosphere seems to change once the sun goes down and the race fans get to watch a good show.

- Dale Earnhardt

topic: Race, Atmosphere, Fans

The atmosphere in which social legislation is considered is not a friend of truth.

- Daniel Patrick Moynihan

topic: Atmosphere, Politics, Social

there's something about Paris that gives you a mental slap all the time, and you can't just sit still and do nothing. You've got to work, to keep up with the pace, the sting in the atmosphere.

- Daphne du Maurier

topic: Paris, Giving, Atmosphere

The atmosphere was wide open in those circles that we traveled in.

- David Amram

topic: Circles, Atmosphere

In a jazz atmosphere, the audience members were so quiet and respectful of the musicians that you felt you were almost part of a meeting at a church or a temple, where everyone was completely in tune with the sermon and what the whole event was about.

- David Amram

topic: Atmosphere, Church, Musician

I would be absolutely astounded if population growth and industrialisation and all the stuff we are pumping into the atmosphere hadn't changed the climatic balance. Of course it has. There is no valid argument for denial.

- David Attenborough

topic: Atmosphere, Growth, Balance, Population Growth, Astounded

However, the models also predict unambiguously that the atmosphere is warming faster than the surface of the earth; but all the available observational data unambiguously shows the opposite!

- David Douglass

topic: Opposites, Data, Atmosphere

Essentially, by 2050 we need all activities outside agriculture to be near zero carbon emitting if we are to stop carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere growing

- David Miliband

topic: Zero, Agriculture, Atmosphere, Carbon Dioxide

I read a lot of F. Scott Fitzgerald. I love 'Tender is the Night,' and its atmosphere of doomed romance. He was one of the greatest prose stylists, with a wonderfully clear but lyrical quality.

- David Nicholls

topic: Night, Romance, Atmosphere, Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is The Night

We are upsetting the atmosphere upon which all life depends. In the late 80s when I began to take climate change seriously, we referred to global warming as a "slowmotion catastrophe" one we expected to kick in perhaps generations later. Instead, the signs of change have accelerated alarmingly.

- David Suzuki

topic: Upset, Atmosphere, Climate

Back in 2005, when I was Christopher Eccleston, we saw one of the largest increases on record, of CO2 in the atmosphere. Unless we keep the rise in global temperature to under 2 degrees, by the time I'm Daniel Radcliffe or wee Jimmy Crankie, I won't be able to save the planet. I won't be here to help you -- well I might, but I'll be that bloke who won Any Dream Will Do.

- David Tennant

source: Live Earth concert, 2007.

topic: Dream, Atmosphere, Able, Blokes, Save The Planet

Christ does not inhabit buildings or a certain atmosphere; in fact, the very heavens cannot contain Him. Rather, He is manifested through our obedient, sanctified bodies-His temples.

- David Wilkerson

topic: Heaven, Atmosphere, Doe

I like to create an atmosphere where actors feel safe enough to take risks.

- David Yates

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Risk, Atmosphere, Actors

The brain, which operates on electromagnetic impulses, is as much an activity of the universe as are the electromagnetic storms in the atmosphere or on a distant star. Therefore science is one form of electromagnetism that spends it time studying another formscience is god explaining god through a human nervous systemisn't spirituality the same thing?

- Deepak Chopra

topic: Stars, Brain, Atmosphere, Electromagnetism

I just wanted to get back to playing attacking football after my time in Italy. It was a little difficult at first but the atmosphere and the fans were just fantastic.

- Dennis Bergkamp

source: Interview with Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. April 18, 2004.

topic: Football, Atmosphere, Fans

In Romanticism, the main determinant is the mood, the atmosphere. And in that regard, you could also describe Schubert as a Romantic.

- Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

topic: Romantic Love, Atmosphere, Mood, Romanticism, Schubert

I want to be on the field. It's a better place to talk to the guys. It's a relaxed atmosphere. You want to make sure you know what's going on, not just with the hitters.

- Don Mattingly

topic: Guy, Atmosphere, Fields

You may be able to fool the voters, but not the atmosphere.

- Donella Meadows

topic: Stupid, Atmosphere, Environmental

The generation of atmosphere, the aura of the uncanny, is one of the most important secrets of magic. It contributes to the willing suspension of disbelief, the feeling that, within the circle, or in the presence of the magical shrine, anything may happen.

- Doreen Valiente

source: Doreen Valiente (2018). “An ABC of Witchcraft Past and Present”, p.372, The Crowood Press

topic: Circles, Feelings, Atmosphere, Suspension Of Disbelief, Uncanny

To create an atmosphere dedicated to health..to present charming interiors that will attract maternity patients...to develop distinctive decoration and furnishings that can be installed at modest expenditure - and will require a minimum of maintenance costs.

- Dorothy Draper

topic: Design, Atmosphere, Cost, Maternity, Furnishings

I love the atmosphere at the mall - everything about Christmas. I don't think anything specific gets me in the holiday spirit except for the holidays themselves.

- Drake Bell

source: "Miranda Cosgrove Interviews Drake Bell for Teen!". Interview with Mirando Cosgrove, www.seventeen.com. December 09, 2008.

topic: Holiday, Thinking, Atmosphere, Holiday Spirit

You go through different stages when you're working on the music in film. At least, I do. You have a temp score, so you have music from other people, usually from other movies, to give you a sense of what the mood is supposed to be, what the atmosphere is.

- Duncan Jones

topic: People, Giving, Atmosphere

We reach our best, and we do our best, we are at our best in a love atmosphere.

- E. W. Kenyon

topic: Love, True Love, Atmosphere

I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.

- Edgar Allan Poe

topic: Atmosphere, Sorrow, Melancholy

Daylight is too easy. What I want is difficult - the atmosphere of lamps and moonlight.

- Edgar Degas

source: Edgar Degas, Jean Sutherland Boggs (1988). “Degas [exposition]”, p.535, Metropolitan Museum of Art

topic: Photography, Atmosphere, Lamps

If we imagine an observer to approach our planet from outer space, and, pushing aside the belts of red-brown clouds which obscure our atmosphere, to gaze for a whole day on the surface of the earth as it rotates beneath him, the feature, beyond all others most likely to arrest his attention would be the wedge-like outlines of the continents as they narrow away to the South.

- Eduard Suess

source: "The Face of the Earth: (Das Antlitz Der Erde)" by Eduard Suess, Clarendon Press, (p. 1), 1904.

topic: Space, Clouds, Atmosphere, Outlines

Growth comes out of a healthy competitive atmosphere, not trying to choose a particular path forward.

- Edward Felten

topic: Healthy, Atmosphere, Growth

Knowing he [Bob Serber] was going to the [first atom bomb] test, I asked him how he planned to deal with the danger of rattlesnakes. He said, 'I'll take along a bottle of whiskey.' â€¦ I ended by asking, 'What would you do about those possibilities [of what unknown phenomena might cause a nuclear explosion to propagate in the atmosphere]?' Bob replied, 'Take a second bottle of whiskey.

- Edward Teller

topic: Atmosphere, Whiskey, Atomic Bomb, Rattlesnakes, Atom Bomb

Expectancy is the atmosphere for miracles.

- Edwin Louis Cole

topic: Christmas, Miracle, Atmosphere, Expectancy

The atmosphere almost looks like an eggshell on an egg, it's so thin. We know that we don't have much air - we need to protect what we have.

- Eileen Collins

topic: Air, Eggs, Atmosphere, Eggshells

Basically we could not have peace, or an atmosphere in which peace could grow, unless we recognized the rights of individual human beings... their importance, their dignity... and agreed that was the basic thing that had to be accepted throughout the world.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

topic: Acceptance, Rights, Atmosphere, Basic Things, Basic Human Rights

Preemption is the right of any nation in order to preserve its National Security; however, preemptive war is a tactic, not a strategy. When used as a strategy preemption dilutes diplomacy, creates an atmosphere of distrust, and promotes regional instability.

- Ellen Tauscher

topic: War, Order, Atmosphere, Instability, Preemption

Over all crowds there seems to float a vague distress, an atmosphere of pervasive melancholy, as if any large gathering of people creates an aura of terror and pity.

- Emile Zola

topic: People, Atmosphere, Gathering

That's just my family's mentality. We are a very loving, hugging and kissing kind of family. And we grew up in a church atmosphere and still have that atmosphere. There is no negativity.

- Eric Davis

topic: Kissing, Negativity, Atmosphere

Those who lack the capacity to achieve much in an atmosphere of freedom will clamor for power.

- Eric Hoffer

topic: Atmosphere, Liberty, Achieve

I was reared in an atmosphere where a great deal of attention was paid to women's hairdressing.

- Erich von Stroheim

topic: Atmosphere, Attention, Deals, Hairdressing

Opera is a musical scenery, a musical atmosphere in which the characters move and talk.

- Erik Satie

topic: Moving, Character, Atmosphere

Spirituality is natural goodness. God is not a person; God is a presence personified in us. Spirituality is not a thing; it is the atmosphere of God's Presence, goodness, truth, and beauty.

- Ernest Holmes

topic: Atmosphere, Spirit, Natural

Our most consequential human problems will be resolved, not through competition, but collaboration... what we need in education is a learning climate in which students work together. In such an atmosphere, truth emerges as authentic insights are conscientiously exchanged.

- Ernest L. Boyer

topic: Carpe Diem, Competition, Atmosphere, Human Problems

I am persuaded that we are all surrounded by an atmosphere - a separate, sensitive, distinct envelope extending some distance from our visible persons - and whenever my invisible atmosphere is invaded, it affects my whole nervous system. The proximity of any bodies but those I love best is unendurable to my body.

- Fanny Kemble

topic: Distance, Love Is, Atmosphere, Unendurable, Proximity

I think that one can have luck if one tries to create an atmosphere of spontaneity.

- Federico Fellini

source: Federico Fellini, Charolette Chandler (2001). “I, Fellini”, p.97, Cooper Square Press

topic: Thinking, Atmosphere, Luck

Passion, intellect, moral activity - these three have never been satisfied in a woman. In this cold and oppressive conventional atmosphere, they cannot be satisfied. To say more on this subject would be to enter into the whole history of society, of the present state of civilisation.

- Florence Nightingale

topic: Passion, Atmosphere, Would Be

Leftist ideas are a part of the very atmosphere which American youth breathes

- Francis Parker Yockey

topic: Ideas, Atmosphere, Youth, Leftists, American Youth

How you look at a situation is very important, for how you think about a problem may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. When you get discouraged or depressed, try changing your attitude from negative to positive and see how life can change for you. Remember, your attitude toward a situation can help you to change it -- you create the very atmosphere for defeat or victory.

- Franco Harris

topic: Attitude, Thinking, Atmosphere

Remember, your attitude toward a situation can help you to change it - you create the very atmosphere for defeat or victory.

- Franco Harris

topic: Attitude, Atmosphere, Victory

The problem is that the atmosphere does not yet exist in which honest police officers can act without fear of ridicule or reprisal from fellow officers.

- Frank Serpico

source: "The Return of Frank Serpico". Frank Serpico's speech before the New York Knapp Commission on police corruption and other misconduct, www.villagevoice.com. October 1971.

topic: Police, Atmosphere, Doe, Reprisal, Police Officer

In this atmosphere I soon became interested in nucleic acids.

- Frederick Sanger

topic: Atmosphere, Acid

Vegetation is really controlling what happens...whereas the emphasis in the climate models has always been on the atmosphere.

- Freeman Dyson

topic: Atmosphere, Climate, Global Warming, Vegetation

We simply don't know yet what's going to happen to the carbon in the atmosphere.

- Freeman Dyson

topic: Atmosphere, Global Warming, Carbon

The tourist travels in his own atmosphere like a snail in his shell and stands, as it were, on his own perambulating doorstep to look at the continents of the world. But if you discard all this, and sally forth with a leisurely and blank mind, there is no knowing what may not happen to you.

- Freya Stark

topic: Knowing, Atmosphere, Mind, Blank Mind

...These politically correct language initiatives are misguided and harmful. They create highly entitled professional "victims" who expect to be free from any offense, and they engender a stifling atmosphere where all individuals walk on eggshells lest they might commit a linguistic capital crime.

- Gad Saad

topic: Atmosphere, Might, Eggshells, Misguided, Stifling

For me, writing [was] a question of survival...I could not trust anyone, even my family. The atmosphere was so poisoned. People even in your own family could turn you in.

- Gao Xingjian

topic: Writing, People, Atmosphere

As an English player you are lifted when the crowd gets behind you. The atmosphere over here can be unsettling for the Australian players and I hope all our fans get behind us.

- Gareth Ellis

topic: Player, League, Atmosphere, Rugby League, Australian

Loads of chemicals and hazardous wastes have been introduced into the atmosphere that didn't even exist in 1948. The environmental condition of the planet is far worse than it was 42 years ago.

- Gaylord Nelson

topic: Years, Atmosphere, Environmental, Hazardous Waste

There is nothing more pitiable than a soulless, sapless, shriveled church, seeking to thrive in a worldly atmosphere, rooted in barren professions, bearing no fruit, and maintaining only the semblance of existence; such a church cannot long survive.

- George C. Lorimer

source: "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 147), 1895.

topic: Long, Atmosphere, Church, Soulless

The Italian prose tale had begun to exercise that influence as early as Chaucer's time: but circumstances and atmosphere were as yet unfavourable for its growth.

- George Saintsbury

source: George Saintsbury (2012). “The English Novel”, p.44, tredition

topic: Exercise, Italian, Atmosphere, Chaucer

I can't be expected to produce deathless prose in an atmosphere of gloom and eucalyptus.

- Gerald Durrell

topic: Atmosphere, Produce, Prose, Deathless

Whatever prestige the bourgeoisie may today be willing to grant to fragmentary or deliberately retrograde artistic tentatives, creation can now be nothing less than a synthesis aiming at the construction of entire atmospheres and styles of life. . . . A unitary urbanism â€” the synthesis we call for, incorporating arts and technologies â€” must be created in accordance with new values of life, values which we now need to distinguish and disseminate. . . .

- Gil J Wolman

topic: Art, Technology, Atmosphere, Incorporating, Retrograde

One thing I turn my back on totally is the unsavory atmosphere at most discos.

- Ginger Rogers

topic: Atmosphere, Turns, Disco

It is in our DNA to create space, to open up safe places, and to change the atmosphere where we live.

- Graham Cooke

source: FaceBook post by Graham Cooke from Nov 20, 2012

topic: Dna, Space, Atmosphere, Safe Places

I think the atmosphere of a Prom concert can change your life, in the best way. It's so deep, the feeling you have there. The audience is so close, and there are so many of them, that you feel they are almost embracing you.

- Gustavo Dudamel

topic: Thinking, Feelings, Atmosphere

There is something about the mental act of thanksgiving that seems to carry the human mind far beyond the region of doubt into the clear atmosphere of faith and trust, where "all things are possible."

- H. Emilie Cady

topic: Gratitude, Atmosphere, Doubt

Youth lives in an atmosphere of energy waiting to make contact.

- Hallie Flanagan

topic: Waiting, Atmosphere, Energy, Youth Life

There is an infinity of landscape here, caused by the purity of the atmosphere. It has been said that there is a lack of colour. It is not so obvious as the greenness of England, but it is infinitely more varied and more delicate in tone. The landscape is a pinky mauve, a lilac, and the reflection of the sun of the particles of the atmosphere is a warm amber. So I should say our colour scheme is amber and lilac.

- Hans Heysen

topic: Reflection, Atmosphere, Landscape, Flora, Lilac

The slave girl is reared in an atmosphere of licentiousness and fear.

- Harriet Ann Jacobs

source: Harriet Ann Jacobs (2006). “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl - Literary Touchstone Classic”, p.62, Prestwick House Inc

topic: Girl, Atmosphere, Slave, Slave Girl

Religion is a temper, not a pursuit. It is the moral atmosphere in which human beings are to live and move. Men do not live to breathe: they breathe to live.

- Harriet Martineau

topic: Moving, Men, Atmosphere

Such an atmosphere is un-American, the most un-American thing we have to contend with today. It is the climate of a totalitarian country in which scientists are expected to change their theories to match changes in the police state's propaganda line.

- Harry S. Truman

topic: Country, Police, Atmosphere, Police State

...man can no more survive psychologically in a psychological milieu that does not respond empathetically to him, than he can survive physically in an atmosphere that contains no oxygen.

- Heinz Kohut

topic: Men, Oxygen, Atmosphere, Lack Of Empathy, Milieu

A theological thought can breathe only in the atmosphere of dialogue with God.

- Helmut Thielicke

source: Helmut Thielicke (1962). “A Little Exercise for Young Theologians”, p.34, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

topic: Atmosphere, Breathe, Dialogue

Behave so the aroma of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere.

- Henry David Thoreau

topic: Atmosphere, May, Aroma, Slime

The atmosphere breathes rest and comfort, and the many chambers seem full of welcomes.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

topic: Thank You, Atmosphere, Comfort

- Herbert Schiller

source: "Living In The Number One Country". Book by Herbert Schiller, 2000.

topic: Shopping, Atmosphere, World, Saturation

The crowd is wonderful. There is always a superb atmosphere in the finish area. It's good for the World Cup. I missed it a lot when I had to rest and it's so nice to be back here.

- Hermann Maier

topic: Nice, Atmosphere, World, World Cup, Superb

Fear is an acid which is pumped into one's atmosphere. It causes mental, moral and spiritual asphyxiation, and sometimes death; death to energy and all growth.

- Horace Fletcher

topic: Spiritual, Fear, Atmosphere, Asphyxiation

The atmosphere is different in Congress after September 11. Terrorism is no longer an abstract issue, but a real, tangible threat.

- Howard Berman

topic: Real, Issues, Atmosphere

Emotion is the atmosphere in which thought is steeped, that which lends to thought its tone or temperature, that to which thought is often indebted for half its power.

- Hugh Reginald Haweis

source: Hugh Reginald Haweis (1871). “Music and morals”, p.291

topic: Atmosphere, Half, Temperature

Taste speaks through a turn of phrase, a curl of the lip, a shrug of the shoulder: it makes an atmosphere.

- Irving Howe

source: Irving Howe (1995). “A Critic's Notebook”, Harvest Books

topic: Atmosphere, Curls, Phrases

There is an atmosphere about the picture theatre that speaks of entertainment and relaxation. The charming surroundings, good music, and the fact that each visitor is determined to enjoy a few hours of holiday all exert an influence on the mind.

- Ivor Novello

topic: Holiday, Atmosphere, Relaxation

Everyone carries an atmosphere about him. It may be healthful and invigorating, or it may be unwholesome and depressing. It may make a little spot of the world a sweeter, better, safer place to live in; or it may make it harder for those to live worthily and beautifully who dwell within its circle.

- J.R. Miller

topic: Depressing, Circles, Atmosphere

It's a pretty widely-accepted notion that the atmosphere is a ridiculously complex system, and the best we can do with our models is a rough approximation.

- Jamais Cascio

topic: Atmosphere, Accepted, Rough, Complex Systems

This will be my first visit [to Israel]. I've heard it's a special place, that Tel Aviv is exciting and that the atmosphere is excellent....I hope I'll have time to visit the holy places.

- James Blunt

topic: Israel, Atmosphere, Special, Holy Places

A few moments before the sun sets, the dark Earth shadow begins to rise in the east... It is nothing less than the shadow of the entire Earth, cast upward onto the atmosphere itself... I saw it over the great plains, and I felt as if I could sense the Earth pivoting silently under my feet...

- James Elkins

topic: Dark, Feet, Atmosphere, Sun Set

An old Arabian fable tells of a prince imprisoned in a castle which had thirteen windows. Twelve of these windows overlooked lovely scenes, while the thirteenth looked down on the black ash heaps of the city. Ignoring the twelve windows, the prince always looked out through the thirteenth. It is so often true that whether a person carries with him an atmosphere of gloom and depression or one of confidence and courage depends on his individual outlook.

- James Keller

topic: Cities, Atmosphere, Lovely, Arabian

It is so often true that whether a person carries with him an atmosphere of gloom and depression or one of confidence and courage depends on his individual outlook.

- James Keller

topic: Atmosphere, Individual, Outlook

The entire range of living matter on Earth from whales to viruses and from oaks to algae could be regarded as constituting a single living entity capable of maintaining the Earth's atmosphere to suit its overall needs and endowed with faculties and powers far beyond those of its constituent parts.

- James Lovelock

source: James Lovelock, J. E. Lovelock (2000). “Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth”, p.9, Oxford Paperbacks

topic: Whales, Atmosphere, Viruses, Algae

It always takes a group of people working together with a common purpose in an atmosphere of trust and collaboration to get extraordinary things done.

- James M. Kouzes

source: James M. Kouzes, Barry Z. Posner (2010). “The Leadership Challenge”, p.318, John Wiley & Sons

topic: People, Atmosphere, Working Together, Common Purpose

Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere.

- James Martineau

topic: Prayer, Atmosphere, Language

The pressure of public opinion is like the pressure of the atmosphere; you can't see it - but all the same, it is sixteen pounds to the square inch.

- James Russell Lowell

topic: Squares, Atmosphere, Public Opinion

I want to create an atmosphere that can be consciously plumbed with seeing, like the wordless thought that comes from looking in a fire.

- James Turrell

source: James Turrell, Julia Brown, Craig E. Adcock, Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, Calif.) (1985). “Occluded front, James Turrell”, Lapis Pr

topic: Fire, Design, Atmosphere, Graphic

You are so part of the world that your slightest action contributes to its reality. Your breath changes the atmosphere. Your encounters with others alter the fabrics of their lives, and the lives of those who come in contact with them.

- Jane Roberts

source: Jane Roberts (1981). “The Nature of the Psyche: Its Human Expression”, Prentice Hall Direct

topic: Reality, Atmosphere, Encounters

On Earth, we still have a beautiful atmosphere that precisely maintains a thermally driven climatic system that shelters, shields and sustains our natural treasures.

- Jay Inslee

topic: Beautiful, Atmosphere, Treasure

There's a kind of permission for war which can be given only by the world's mood and atmosphere, the feel of its pulse. It would be madness to undertake a war without that permission.

- Jean Giraudoux

topic: War, Atmosphere, World

The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and evil are the result of the moral atmosphere they breathe.

- Jean Paul

topic: Children, Evil, Atmosphere

When I was 14 and living in London, I'd go around Hampton Court Palace with its marvelous atmosphere, through the gateway where Ann Boleyn walked, the haunted gallery down which Katherine Howard ran. It all set me going. It all started from there.

- Jean Plaidy

topic: Atmosphere, London, Palaces, Hamptons

A sound Physics of the Earth should include all the primary considerations of the earth's atmosphere, of the characteristics and continual changes of the earth's external crust, and finally of the origin and development of living organisms. These considerations naturally divide the physics of the earth into three essential parts, the first being a theory of the atmosphere, or Meteorology, the second, a theory of the earth's external crust, or Hydrogeology, and the third, a theory of living organisms, or Biology.

- Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

topic: Atmosphere, Development, Earth, Meteorology, Living Organisms

Remorse sleeps in the atmosphere of prosperity.

- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

topic: Sleep, Atmosphere, Prosperity

When a vision begins to form everything changes, including the air around me. I seem no longer to be in the same atmosphere. I feel a peacefulness and a love that are indescribable. I stand alone, and nothing worldly can touch me. I feel that I am looking down from a higher plane and wondering why others cannot see what I am seeing.

- Jeane Dixon

topic: Air, Atmosphere, Vision, Peacefulness, I Stand Alone

I have to go someplace where I can soak myself in a creative atmosphere.

- Jeff Ament

topic: Creative, Atmosphere

Create a friendly atmosphere on the inside and outside. Live Friendly. Be a friendly person on the inside. Have the attitude it takes to be smiling internally first.

- Jeffrey Gitomer

topic: Attitude, Atmosphere, Friendly, Inside And Outside, Friendly Person

Among the several cloudy appellatives which have been commonly employed as cloaks for misgovernment, there is none more conspicuous in this atmosphere of illusion than the word Order.

- Jeremy Bentham

topic: Government, Order, Atmosphere

What can I say? I hate Bush; I despise him and his entire administration, everything he represents and everything he has tried to do, not only internationally, which is horrific, but domestically as well. In my country the atmosphere is poisoned. Unbreathable for those of us who are not on the right. So thank you for inviting me to this festival and allowing me to leave there for a few days.

- Jessica Lange

topic: Country, Hate, Atmosphere, Horrific

The Keystone pipeline will spew a massive amount of carbon pollution into our fragile atmosphere. It should be stopped.

- Jill Stein

topic: Atmosphere, Keystone Pipeline, Pollution, Keystones

From the Olympian heights of an executive suite, in an atmosphere where your success is judged by the extent to which you can maximise profits, the overwhelming tendency must be to see people as units of production, as indices in your accountants' books.

- Jimmy Reid

source: "Still irresistible, a working-class hero's finest speech". www.independent.co.uk. August 12, 2010.

topic: Book, People, Atmosphere

I don't believe that you can judge the worth of a movie in the atmosphere in which it comes out the first time. There's just so many reasons why some pictures don't catch on.

- Joe Dante

topic: Believe, Judging, Atmosphere

The dynamic is extremely similar to Gremlins and the hero is very similar, plus the small town atmosphere. It really is in a way the third Gremlins movie.

- Joe Dante

topic: Hero, Atmosphere, Way, Gremlins

Debates must take place in an atmosphere of courtesy.

- John Allen Fraser

source: John Allen Fraser (1993). “The House of Commons at Work”, Montréal : Éditions de la Chenelière

topic: Atmosphere, Debate, Courtesy

The atmosphere of our time is fast being cleared of the fumes and deadly gases that arose during the carboniferous age of theology.

- John Burroughs

topic: Time, Atmosphere, Age

My home is at the WWE. I truly do love performing. The atmosphere here isn't like anything else. It's truly where I belong.

- John Cena

topic: Home, Wwe, Atmosphere

There is no doubt there is more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, caused by the burning of fossil fuels. It should have an effect on the climate, but the numbers indicate that effect is relatively minor.

- John Christy

topic: Numbers, Atmosphere, Doubt

The greater the man, the more he is soaked in the atmosphere of his time; only thus can he get a wide enough grasp of it to be able to change substantially the pattern of knowledge and action.

- John Desmond Bernal

source: John Desmond Bernal (1965). “Science in history”

topic: Science, Men, Atmosphere, Knowledge And Action

As the scene of life would be more the cold emptiness of space than the warm, dense atmosphere of planets, the advantage of containing no organic material at all, so as to be independent of both these conditions, would be increasingly felt.

- John Desmond Bernal

source: "The World, the Flesh and the Devil: An Enquiry into the Future of the Three Enemies of the Rational Soul". Book by John Desmond Bernal, 1929.

topic: Independent, Space, Atmosphere

Atmosphere in a painting is nine-tenths fear.

- John French Sloan

topic: Fear, Atmosphere, Nine

Even if my songs are a bit low-spirited, they make me happy. I become happy when I hear sad songs. When you sing about sad things in a beautiful way, the atmosphere turns upside down

- John Frusciante

topic: Beautiful, Song, Atmosphere, Sad Song, They Make Me Happy

We are awakening to that marvelous truth, that Christ is not in the heavens only, nor the atmosphere only, but Christ is in you.

- John G. Lake

topic: Heaven, Atmosphere, Awakening

There were no jewelry hidden. Walt wanted this atmosphere: They were supposed to live here, they've been outside somewhere, but they could come back at any minute and catch us.

- John Hench