States of the atmosphere pass into us as water through the meshes of a sieve, and storms occur in us before they break upon the world without, creating restless sensations. (Absolute Evil)

~ Julian Hawthorne

Julian Hawthorne Atmosphere Emotion Restlessness Storms Weather

Energetically speaking, antimatter is the mirror image of matter, so the two instantly cancel each other out if they come in contact.Keeping antimatter isolated from matter is a challenge, of course, because everything on earth is made of matter. The samples have to be stored without ever touching anything at all—even air.

~ Dan Brown

Dan Brown Air Antimatter Atmosphere Cancel Each Other Out Cancel Out Challenge Challenges Contact Energy Image Instant Instantly Isolated Isolation Matter Mirror Image Opposite Opposites Samples Science Theories Theory Touch Touching

There must be something ghostly in the air of Christmas — something about the close, muggy atmosphere that draws up the ghosts, like the dampness of the summer rains brings out the frogs and snails.

~ Jerome K. Jerome

Jerome K. Jerome Atmosphere Christmas December Ghost Stories Ghost Story Ghosts Winter Xmas Yule

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

Henry David Thoreau Atmosphere Breathe Head In The Clouds Paradise Think

Afternoon drinkers shifted in the gloom as if they sensed new blood.

~ Sara Sheridan

Sara Sheridan Alcohol Atmosphere Drinking Mirabelle Began Pub Sara Sheridan

He had felt that a moment before his making the turn, someone had been there. The air seemed charged with a special calm as if someone had waited there, quietly, and only a moment before he came, simply turned to a shadow and let him through. Perhaps his nose detected a faint perfume, perhaps the skin on the backs of his hands, on his face, felt the temperature rise at this one spot where a person's standing might raise the immediate atmosphere ten degrees for an instant. There was no understanding it. Each time he made the turn, he saw only the white, unused, buckling sidewalk, with perhaps, on one night, something vanishing swiftly across a lawn before he could focus his eyes or speak.But now, tonight, he slowed almost to a stop. His inner mind, reaching out to turn the corner for him, had heard the faintest whisper. Breathing? Or was the atmosphere compressed merely by someone standing very quietly there, waiting?He turned the corner.

~ Ray Bradbury

Ray Bradbury Atmosphere Waiting

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

~ Gerald Durrell

Gerald Durrell Atmosphere Eucalyptus Gloom Prose

Expectancy is the atmosphere for miracles.

~ Edwin Louis Cole

Edwin Louis Cole Miracles Atmosphere

Neither comprehension nor learning can take place in an atmosphere of anxiety.

~ Rose Kennedy

Rose Kennedy Anxiety Place Atmosphere

There are certain romances that belong in certain cities, in a certain atmosphere, in a certain time.

~ Sammy Davis

Sammy Davis Time Belong Atmosphere

Hizb ut-Tahrir spearheaded the radicalization of the 1990s and cultivated an atmosphere of anger.

~ Maajid Nawaz

Maajid Nawaz Atmosphere Cultivated