#atmosphere

My dad was kind of a pool shark and had a Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin thing going on. I've always been fascinated by the fifties because of him. There was a hip, cool, anything-goes atmosphere back then, but looking good was still a priority. ↗

— Dylan McDermott

#atmosphere #back #because #been #cool

Then suddenly something just kicked me. I kind of woke up and realised that I was in a different atmosphere than you normally are. My immediate reaction was to back off, slow down. ↗

— Ayrton Senna

#back #different #down #i #immediate

I have a very strict regimen of showing up at my desk at a certain hour with my cup of green tea. It is very quiet. I don't like having a lot of atmosphere around. ↗

— Melissa Rosenberg

#atmosphere #certain #cup #desk #green

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

#dare #extent #great #great extent #happy

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

#atmosphere #competing #competitive #day #each

Without atmosphere a painting is nothing. ↗

— Rembrandt Harmenszoon Van Rijn

#atmosphere #painting #art

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

— Gerald Durrell

#eucalyptus #gloom #prose #family

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

#always #around #atmosphere #characters #gets

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

— Howard Berman

#after #atmosphere #congress #different #issue

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

#atmosphere #both #cold #conditions #containing