serene ambiance Quotes

It is dark now. The snow is deep blue and the ocean nearly black. It is time for some music.

Dear bells! how sweet the sound of village bells When on the undulating air they swim!

A little noiseless noise among the leaves, Born of the very sigh that silence heaves.

The prefect evening...lying down on the couch beside the bookcase and reading himself sleepy...Jim lying opposite him at the other end of the couch, also reading; the two of them absorbed in their books yet so completely aware of each other's presence.

He murmurs near the running brooks A music sweeter than their own.

I'm in the countryside outside of Paris, in a beautiful old manor house. The studio is in the basement, but we decided to set everything up in the old parlor and dining-room area so we can look at each other and (at) the sunshine coming through the stained-glass windows. It's pretty idyllic, and I think it's spoiling me. I'll have to go back to regular life after this.

And thus they give the time, that Nature meant for peaceful sleep and meditative snores, to ceaseless din and mindless merriment and waste of shoes and floors.

Moonlight lined the windowsills like a fall of snow.

One of the greatest sounds of them all - and to me it is a sound - is utter, complete silence.

Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes.

Fills The air around with beauty.

Religious truth, or for that matter any truth, requires a calm and meditative atmosphere for its percolation.

Tis visible silence, still as the hour-glass.

I want my office to be quiet. The loudest thing in the room - by far - should be the occasional purring of the cat.

My hole is warm and full of light.

The sound of a million butterflies flapping their wings is indescribable. It's very heavenly.

I like to try to keep things as relaxed and easy as possible. I mean, movies generally attract a lot of people who like to cause fires, so they can later try to put them out. But I don't like that kind of thing.