Best Ambience Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“A firefly hunt has none of the radiance of a cherry-blossom party. Dark, dreamy, rather -- might one say? Perhaps something of the child's world, the world of the fairy story in it. Something not to be painted, but set to music, the mood of it taken up on piano or koto.”

Nature Summer Japan Ambience Fireflies

Author:Junichiro Tanizaki; Edward Seidensticker

“Symbolically meaningful (and symbolically insignificant), glass intensifies all the contradictions at play in contemporary furniture: the inability of people to determine their own condition and destiny (Baudrillard, 2005: 42). By promising proximity, intimacy and transition (while at the same time promoting distance, detachment and immobility), glass reproduces in the microcosm of the domestic ambience the inequalities at work within the macrocosm of contemporary society. The happy ending embedded in its discourse is thus retracted by its ‘see- but- don’t- touch’ aesthetic quality.”

Glass Ambience Baudrillard

Book:Baudrillard for Architects

Source: Baudrillard for Architects

“The way that we hygger and offer reassurance is unique to each of us according to the things to which we attach most meaning. Some of us nourish others by cooking. Some offer comfort in conversation or good-natured humour. Others are adept at creating an easy ambience through which hygge flows.”

Humour Comfort Unique Meaning Create Hygge Ambience Nourish Attach Reassure

Book:The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Living Well

Source: The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Living Well

“After finishing their main course and dessert, she and Cady prepared her extra dish. Sophia had decided to make the girls' favorite dinner- beef tenderloin with peppercorn sauce. Soon enough they were plating and rushing back and forth to the huge banquet table set up in the courtyard. Pouring wine and adjusting garnishes and offering smiles to the judges. The ambience of this meal was Sophia's idea of romance. The table was draped with ivory linen and topped with glass jars of flowers. Bouquets of Rosa rugosa and Queen Anne's lace were nestled among votives and bottles of wine. The local glassblower had provided an assortment of pottery dishes and hand-blown goblets. Strands of white lights dangled from the surrounding trees. She and Elliott and the girls plated together, having reached some sort of exhausted Zen state. Emilia scooped the risotto, Elliott placed the salmon on top, Sophia added the three tiny sides shaped with a round cookie cutter. Elliott drizzled his sauce onto the final product. He brushed his shoulder against Sophia each time, needing that physical connection. The plates looked exquisite, artistic. Perfect. She tried to ignore the overwhelming stress of the moment and focus on the food. Cady and Emilia added garnishes- fresh herbs and flowers. And Cady had a whole sheet of candied violets ready to sprinkle on their dessert. It made Elliott laugh and tease them all about being a family of garden sprites. When they finally got to the head of the table and faced a sea of critics, Sophia felt confident about their choices. They'd prepared a beautiful meal that successfully showcased Elliott's love for Scottish tradition, local Vermont products, and the Brown family's love of fresh vegetables and herbs. All the components meshed together into one cohesive meal.”

Cooking Food Preparation Ambience Side Dish Natural Foods

Book:A Taste of Heaven

Source: A Taste of Heaven

“It's enough to drive you crazy, trying to depict the weather, the atmosphere, the ambience.”

Trying Enough Crazy Difficulty Weather Atmosphere Ambience

Author:Claude Monet

“Architecture is not all about the design of the building and nothing else, it is also about the cultural setting and the ambience, the whole affair.”

Whole Design Building Affair Architecture Setting Settings Ambience

Author:Michael Graves

“The costume the actors wear and if they're in stylized makeup and wigs in a live-action movie let's say, in a big costume drama, even though it does give them a sense of great ambience and environment and they kind of feel like they're in a great court, or if they feel like they're in the old west, or if they feel like they're being chased by hobbits or dinosaurs, it all comes down to the actors looking each other in the eye.”

Ifs Giving Feels Kind Doe Bigs Eye Action Actors Environment Drama Court West Makeup Costumes Dinosaurs Action Movie Wigs Old West Ambience

Author:Steven Spielberg

“I don't have goals when writing books, apart from getting to the end. I have rather vague ideas about how I want things to feel, I'm big on ambience. I have a title, a beginning and a probable ending and go from there.”

Want Feels Writing Book Ideas Ends Bigs Goal Titles Vague Writing A Book Ambience Vague Ideas

Author:Kate Atkinson

“I find the past so fascinating. Photographs are strange, almost surreal, almost here yet gone. I slip into thinking what the past must have been like and I enjoy creating that ambience and atmosphere - 1730 to around 1870 is the most interesting period.”

Thinking Has Beens Past Enjoy Interesting Gone Strange Periods Creating Photograph Atmosphere Fascinating Slips Surreal Most Interesting Ambience

Author:Kate Atkinson

“My childhood lacked affection and ambience.”

Childhood Affection Ambience

Author:Jacqueline de Ribes

“There can be no reasonable right to live on sidewalks. Society needs order, and hence has a right to a minimally civilized ambience in public spaces. Regarding the homeless, this is not merely for aesthetic reasons because the anesthetic is not merely unappealing. It presents a spectacle of disorder and decay that becomes a contagion.”

Needs Reason Order Space Reasonable Civilized Disorder Aesthetic Decay Homeless Sidewalk Contagion Anesthetics Ambience

Author:George Will

“Whoever uses psychedelics should treat them with greatest respect. When Aldous and I used them, we prepared the ambience and ourselves the day before. The day of the session was kept as a holy day, and there were beautiful fruits and flowers around. The result was, that we had no negative experiences.”

Should Use Beautiful Used Results Flower Holy Negative Treats Prepared Fruit Session Holy Days Ambience Negative Experiences

Author:Laura Huxley

“Well, when I was a kid I used to hide behind the curtains at home at Christmas and I used to try and be Elvis. There was a certain ambience between the curtains and the French windows, there was a certain sound there for a ten year old. That was all the ambience I got at ten years old... I think! And I always wanted to be a certain, a bit similar to that. But I didn't want to sell pizza.”

Thinking Want Trying Years Wells Home Kids Wanted Used Certain Bits Sound Behinds Ten Window Sells Curtains Pizza Ambience

Author:Robert Plant

“Obviously, it's had a huge effect on repetitive music or dance music or house music. Ambient in the last ten years has infiltrated into all those repetitive musics. I don't know what part it plays in pop necessarily but I'm sure there's some connection. But in all the music that deals with experimental repetition, drum and bass, dub, various kinds of house music, there's always been a quality of atmosphere and ambience. I think it's infiltrated that pretty heavily.”

Thinking Knows Years Kind Play Lasts House Deals Quality Effects Huge Ten Connections Various Pops Atmosphere Repetition Bass Repetitive Dance Music Ambient House Music Ambience Drum And Bass

Author:Bill Laswell

“The Time that Remains is a way of interpreting a certain ambience or emotion. These are the stories that my father told me over the course of fifteen or twenty years. I used to listen to him. From the cowardly part of my character, I'm always in fear of not telling the right story. I'm not interested in making epics.”

Way Years Character Stories Used Certain Courses Father Emotion Twenties Remains Not Interested Fifteen Epic Cowardly Interpreting Ambience

Author:Elia Suleiman

“Maybe I'll start from the initial idea, what motivated me to do that. In 1953, I had access to a tape recorder. Tape recorders were not widely available. There was no cassette tape back then. It was a Sears Roebuck tape machine. I put a microphone in the window and recorded the ambience.”

Ideas Window Machines Available Access Motivated Tape Initials Microphones Recorders Cassettes Sears Ambience Cassette Tapes

Author:Pauline Oliveros

“The artists always reflect the times, so there's a lot to think about, a lot of unknowns, a lot of things that are describable. This is the closest I've seen to the kind of ambience that made the '60s happen. It's not about the artist having a responsibility to do anything. They have to be artists and express themselves and everything will work out fine.”

Thinking Kind Made Happens Artist Responsibility Fine Work Out Closest Things Will Work Out Ambience Everything Will Work Out

Author:Neil Young

“'American Horror' goes for a very specific kind of Seventies suburban downer ambience - 'Flowers in the Attic' paperbacks, Black Sabbath album covers and late-night flicks like 'Let's Scare Jessica to Death.' It even has 'Go Ask Alice'-era urban legends.”

Kind Night Asks Black Flower Horror Late Albums Eras Scare Legends Urban Seventies Sabbath Jessica Late Night Attics Black Sabbath Downers Ambience Album Covers Urban Legends

Author:Rob Sheffield

“With blue vinyl-tile floor, pale-green wainscoating, pink walls, a yellow ceiling, and orange-and-white stork-patterned drapes, the expectant fathers' lounge churned with the negative energy of color overload. It would have served well as the nervous-making set for a nightmare about a children's-show host who led a secret life as an ax murderer. The chain-smoking clown didn't improve the ambience.”

Source: Life Expectancy

“As a general rule of biology, migratory species are less 'aggressive' than sedentary ones. There is one obvious reason why this should be so. The migration itself, like the pilgrimage, is the hard journey: a 'leveller' on which the 'fit' survive and stragglers fall by the wayside. The journey thus pre-empts the need for hierarchies and shows of dominance. The 'dictators' of the animal kingdom are those who live in an ambience of plenty. The anarchists, as always, are the 'gentlemen of the road'.”

Source: The Songlines

“In all the music that deals with experimental repetition, drum and bass, dub, various kinds of house music, there's always been a quality of atmosphere and ambience.”

Kind House Deals Quality Various Atmosphere Repetition Bass House Music Ambience Drum And Bass

Author:Bill Laswell

“I wanted to change the rules of engagement, asking for more- from fewer. I was insisting that we had to have only the best people...If you wanted excellence, at a minimum, the ambience had to reflect excellence.”

People Ifs Wanted Asking Excellence Engagement Fewer Minimum Insisting Ambience Rules Of Engagement

Author:Jack Welch

“The ambience here is order and beauty. That is what frightens me when I am first alone again. I feel inadequate. I have made an open place, a place for meditation. What if I cannot find myself inside it?”

Ifs Feels Firsts Made Order Beauty Meditation What If Inadequate Ambience

Book:Journal of a Solitude

Source: Journal of a Solitude

“The past becomes a texture, an ambience to our present.”

Past Texture Ambience

Author:Paul Scott

“Minimalism in interior design has become a caricature. Everywhere you find shops or hotels with an ambience that makes you feel like you are in a refrigerator.”

Feels Design Like You Shops Hotel Interiors Minimalism Interior Design Caricatures Refrigerators Ambience

Author:Andree Putman

“Let's get loose with Compassion. Let's drown in the delicious ambience of Love.”

Compassion Delicious Ambience

Author:Hafez

“Eating is one of the great beauties in life. One of my favorite recreations... eating with friends, the service, the ambience.”

Eating My Favorite Recreation Beauty Of Life Ambience

Author:LeRoy Neiman

“Light creates ambience and feel of a place, as well as the expression of a structure.”

Feels Wells Light Expression Structure Ambience

Author:Le Corbusier

“I started collecting art... simply because I wanted pictures to hang on the wall. I noticed what a difference a picture could make to the ambience of a room, and indeed how shifting work around could change a room's whole feeling.”

Art Whole Feelings Wanted Differences Rooms Wall Shifting Collecting Ambience

Author:Michael Audain

“I can walk into a room and create a good ambience. I was taught all about this back when I studied acting. One of the things they would teach you is how to send out positive signals when you enter a room. I am glad I learned this.”

I Can Walks Rooms Acting Teach Taught Glad Signals Back When Ambience

Author:Jean Reno

“Studios are designed to pull out all of that beautiful ambience you get from singing in a room, and then the engineer puts it back in digitally or through whatever machinery you've got.”

Beautiful Rooms Singing Studios Engineers Machinery Ambience

Author:Patty Griffin

“Joy requires one to be awake, Adjusting the heart's ambience to bright. Some prefer the dark, as is their right, On grounds of agony, and to forsake Not only bliss, but all that's blessed by light.”

Heart Light Joy Dark Blessed Bliss Awake Agony Forsake Adjusting Ambience

Author:Nick Gordon