Atmosphere Quotes - Page 3

• Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.

  Billie Jean King

  Sports, Perfect, Tennis

  "The Mammoth Book of Comic Quotes" by Geoff Tibballs, (p. 593), 2004.

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• In this atmosphere I soon became interested in nucleic acids.

  Frederick Sanger

  Acid

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• The world's forests need to be seen for what they are - giant global utilities, providing essential public services to humanity on a vast scale. They store carbon, which is lost to the atmosphere when they burn, increasing global warming. The life they support cleans the atmosphere of pollutants and feeds it with moisture. They act as a natural thermostat, helping to regulate our climate and sustain the lives of 1.4 billion of the poorest people on this Earth.

  Prince Charles

  Life, People, Support

  Prince Charles' Speech to a WWF gala dinner at Hampton Court Palace on the Prince's Rainforests Project, www.theguardian.com. October 26, 2007.

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• A photographer must be prepared to catch and hold on to those elements which give distinction to the subject or lend it atmosphere.

  Bill Brandt

  Photography, Giving, Elements

  Bill Brandt (1993). “Bill Brandt: Selected Texts & Bibliography”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.

  Dorothy Parker

  Inspirational, Funny, Hilarious

  Dorothy Parker (2004). “Dorothy Parker in Her Own Words”, Taylor Trade Publishing

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• The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature.

  George Orwell

  Literature, Orthodoxy, Form

  George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.128, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A woman should be home with the children, building that home and making sure there's a secure family atmosphere.

  Mel Gibson

  Family, Children, Home

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• A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.

  Walter Bagehot

  Teacher, Fear, Teaching

  Walter Bagehot (1910). “Literary Studies (Miscellaneous Essays): Hartley Coleridge. Shakespeare, the man. William Cowper. The first Edinburgh reviewers. Edward Gibbon. Percy Bysshe Shelley”

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• 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

  Artist, Jewelry, Minutes

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• The atmosphere is so tense, if Elvis walked in, with a portion of chips... you could hear the vinegar sizzle on them.

  Sid Waddell

  Redneck, Vinegar, Chips

  "Sid Waddell's quotes: 13 of the best" by Lizzy Davies, www.theguardian.com. August 12, 2012.

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• I love the culture of grilling. It creates an atmosphere that is festive but casual.

  Bobby Flay

  Grilling, Culture, Casual

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• If the Negroes are to remain forever removed from the producing atmosphere, and the present discrimination continues, there will be nothing left for them to do.

  Carter G. Woodson

  Forever, Discrimination, Left

  Carter G. Woodson (2006). “The Mis-Education of the Negro”, p.108, Book Tree

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• 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

  New Orleans, Cities, Population

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• The President seems to extend executive privilege way out past the atmosphere. What he says is executive privilege is nothing but executive poppycock.

  Sam Ervin

  Past, President, Way

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• Especially when you play at home, you need a good atmosphere behind you.

  Jose Mourinho

  Home, Play, Needs

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• Saigon is hot, full of atmosphere, activity, and commerce.

  Brendan Fraser

  Hot, Saigon, Commerce

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

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• Every time I go to the theater, there's something about the atmosphere, seeing something unfold live in front of an audience, that you can't get out of your system.

  John Madden

  Theater, Audience, Seeing

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• 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

  Children, Evil, Moral

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• The atmosphere of libraries, lecture rooms and laboratories is dangerous to those who shut themselves up in them too long. It separates us from reality like a fog.

  Alexis Carrel

  Reality, Fog, Long

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• I was wholeheartedly attracted to the conservative atmosphere that permeated the city of Washington.

  John Podhoretz

  Cities, Conservative, Wholeheartedly

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• When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is rich and sweet and right. He is part of the world, the atmosphere, the blue sky and the blue water.

  Gwendolyn Brooks

  Love, Sweet, Men

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• 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

  Sports, Football, Fans

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

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• I can drink tea until the cows come home and I love the atmosphere in tea-shops.

  Zola Budd

  Home, Tea Drinking, Cows

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• A continual atmosphere of hectic passion is very trying if you haven't got any of your own.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Passion, Trying, Havens

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club”, p.119, Open Road Media

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• My studio is designed for atmosphere. I have a really cozy, comfortable room that has a great, huge glass door that views my backyard.

  Geddy Lee

  Glasses, Doors, Views

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