Serene Setting Quotes

I want to be with my wife. Sitting on a deckchair, sipping some tea, and reading books in a retirement home, in a beautiful and warm place. I'm a romantic guy.

Second only to the sea, the Miami sky has been the greatest comfort in my life past 50. On a good day, when the wind blows from the south, the light here is diffuse and forgiving.

My designs are free-flowing in their approach, and I want to create an ambience of warmth and tranquility.

I would have to say my favorite place on Earth is Bora Bora.

The place is very well and quiet and the children only scream in a low voice.

She would sit by herself in the middle of the old stoe amphitheatre, with the sky's starry vault overhead, and simply listen to the great silence around her.

I sat me down to watch upon a bank With ivy canopied and interwove With flaunting honeysuckle.

I like it when it's nice and quiet. I'm not a big city person.

...what I feel we ought to do at this juncture is to dash off somewhere where it's quiet and there aren't so many housesdancing the 'Blue Danube' and shove some tea into ourselves. And over the pot and muffins I shall have something veryimportant to say to you.

And all the air is filled with pleasant noise of waters

Maine out of season is unmistakably a great destination: hospitable, good-humored, plenty of elbow room, short days, dark nights of crackling ice crystals.

My training sessions were nice, calm, and quiet. Just me and my trainers in the gym.

When I'm home, I like a cozy, comfortable, calming space.

I took her hand in mine, and we went out of the ruined place; and, as the morning mists had risen long ago when I first left the forge, so, the evening mists were rising now, and in all the broad expanse of tranquil light they showed to me, I saw no shadow of another parting from her.

As soon as you think of fishing you think of things that don't belong to the modern world. The very idea of sitting all day under a willow tree beside a quiet pool - and being able to find a quiet pool to sit beside- belongs to a time before the war, before radio, before aeroplanes, before Hitler.

The friendship we share grows amidst the craggy rock pond; reeds of water spray fireflies scented with bonfires.

My desk faces the water, and I'm perfectly happy sitting there. I'm never lonely.

My favourite pool is located in a remote valley in the eastern Lake District, surrounded by vine-hung cliffs and slippery boulders. It has a torrential sheet waterfall at one end and is almost black in colour, so it appears bottomless, a portal to nowhere.

One of my dreams was always to have a piano - a room with a piano overlooking the ocean or a lake.

I mean if I'm in the middle of a field with my keyboard and some headphones and I feel inspired to write something, I'll just write something really beautiful and mellow.

Gradually the magic of the island [Corfu] settled over us as gently and clingingly as pollen.

It's rare that you get to have a lovely time of it and you're not just portraying endless trauma on film.

Mexico admits you through an arched stone orifice into the tree-filled courtyard of its heart, where a dog pisses against a wall and a waiter hustles through a curtain of jasmine to bring a bowl of tortilla soup, steaming with cilantro and lime. Cats stalk lizards among the clay pots around the fountain, doves settle into the flowering vines and coo their prayers, thankful for the existence of lizards. The potted plants silently exhale, outgrowing their clay pots. Like Mexico's children they stand pinched and patient in last year's too-small shoes.