Atmosphere Quotes

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  It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are... than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Thinking, Clouds

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1768, Delphi Classics

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• We all walk in mysteries. We are surrounded by an atmosphere about which we still know nothing at all.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Mystery, Walks, Stills

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  Expectancy is the atmosphere for miracles.

  Edwin Louis Cole

  Christmas, Miracle, Literature

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• We must respect the atmosphere which surrounds the human being

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Humans, Surround, Human Beings

  Henri Cartier-Bresson, Michael L. Sand (1999). “The Mind's Eye: Writings on Photography and Photographers”

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  For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at every moment; but the surrounding atmosphere brings it to life - the light and the air which vary continually. For me, it is only the surrounding atmosphere which gives subjects their true value.

  Claude Monet

  Life, Change, Stars

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• The atmosphere defines the environment of sound.

  Bill Laswell

  Sound, Environment

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• A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.

  Bertrand Russell

  Happiness, Music, Happy Life

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• Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.

  Victor Hugo

  Love, Life, Soul And Body

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

  Dalai Lama

  Buddhist, Home, Foundation

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

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Thank You, Comfort, Hospitality

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “My Complete Poetical Works (Annotated Edition)”, p.804, Jazzybee Verlag

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

  Jeff Ament

  Creative, I Can

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

  Henry David Thoreau

  May, Aroma, Slime

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Thoreau on Nature: Sage Words on Finding Harmony with the Natural World”, p.16, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Sorrow, Melancholy, Felt

  Edgar Allan Poe (2004). “The Collected Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe”, p.174, Wordsworth Editions

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• Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.

  Wendell Phillips

  Brain, Agitation

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• Whatever matters to human beings, trust is the atmosphere in which it thrives.

  Sissela Bok

  Matter, Thrive, Humans

  Sissela Bok (2011). “Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life”, p.69, Vintage

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• Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.

  Samuel Butler

  People, Common Sense, Academic

  Samuel Butler (1951). “Samuel Butler's notebooks”

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

  Harriet Ann Jacobs

  Girl, Slave Girl, Slave

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

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• When you write songs, you can't really point out the exact thing you're inspired by. It's more a state or a mood or an atmosphere that you're trying to put into words.

  Keren Ann

  Song, Writing, Trying

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• 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

  Exercise, Italian, Growth

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

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• The atmosphere at my school was very competitive. Young girls were competing with each other every day for status, for leadership, for the affection of the teachers. I hated it.

  Zhang Ziyi

  Girl, Teacher, School

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• The atmosphere of the theater is my oxygen.

  Placido Domingo

  Oxygen, Theater

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

  James Martineau

  Prayer, Language, Praying

  James Martineau (1905). “Tides of the Spirit: Selections from the Writings of James Martineau”

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• Over there, Kevin McHale, I feel like I'm talking to someone I know. It's just a total different atmosphere.

  Latrell Sprewell

  Sports, Talking, Different

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• I once saw a lump of Greenland breaking off into the sea and moving south, which of course will affect the atmosphere and us generally, and it'll happen more and more.

  Ralph Steadman

  Moving, Sea, Saws

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• I think almost always that what gets me going with a story is the atmosphere, the visual imagery, and then I people it with characters, not the other way around.

  Ann Beattie

  Character, Thinking, People

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