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Quotes About Heat

I now realized this woman was livid with anger. Not the sort that suddenly hits you then drains away. No. This woman, I could tell had been in a kind of white heat for sometime. It's a sort of anger that arrives and then stays put at a constant level like a bad headache never quite peaking and refusing to find a proper outlet.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
Our eyes met and his grin stretched another quarter-inch. Another schoolgirl flip--followed by a very un-schoolgirl wave of heat. He leaned even farther over the boards, lips parting to say something. Hey, Kris! someone yelled behind him. If you want to flirt with Eve, tell her to meet you in the penalty box. You'll be back there soon enough.
~ Kelley Armstrong
Rommel could smell the sea. At Torbruk the heat and the dust and flies were as bad as they had been in the desert, but it was all made bearable by that occasional whiff of salty dampness in the faint breeze.
~ Ken Follett
The sun shone cheerfully, as on a fine day in hell.
~ Ken Follett
When you travel by road in the west you travel with a cohort of dust which streams up from your tyres and rolls away in a disintegrating funnel, defining the currents of air your vehicle sets in motion … And the heat is unthinkable, no matter how widely the windows are open, and the sweat streams off your body and into your socks, and if there are a number of people in the car their body stenches mingle disagreeably
~ Kenneth Cook
...and rout the magical mystical moonlight with fierce proof of its own greater power to light, to heat, to make everything known.
~ Irving Stone
The Sun is bad enough even while he is single, drying up our marshes with his heat as he does. But what will become of us if he marries and and begets other suns?
~ Aesop, Aesop's Fables
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.
~ William Penn
Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.
~ William Penn
The blaze of sun wrung pops of sweat from the old man's brow, yet he cupped his hands around the glass of hot sweet tea as if to warm them. In forgetting, they were trying to remember.
~ William Peter Blatty
A little pot and soon hot.
~ William Shakespeare
Put out the light, and then put out the light:If I quench thee, thou flaming minister,I can again thy former light restore,Should I repent me; but once put out thy light,Thou cunning'st pattern of excelling nature,I know not where is that Promethean heatThat can thy light relume.
~ William Shakespeare
When you buy a gallon of gas, over 60 percent of the energy you pay for goes out the radiator in the form of waste heat? That's why you have a radiator in your car in the first place.
~ Wilson Greatbatch
One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty councils. The thing is to supply light and not heat
~ Woodrow Wilson
They say it'll be even hotter tomorrow. that's how we spend the summer. complaining about the heat.
~ Y?ko Ogawa
The traditional media [in China] is still heavily controlled by the government; social media offers an opening to let the steam out a little bit. But because you don't have many other openings, the heat coming out of this opening is sometimes very strong, active and even violent.
~ Yang Lan
The sea is heated by the sun (at a net rate QN) and stirred at the
~ David N. Thomas
The easiest way to reduce this waste problem is not to generate heat; in other words, keep still and don't work. Hence such social adaptations as the siesta, which is designed to keep people inactive in the heat of midday. In British India, the saying had it, only mad dogs and Englishmen went out in the noonday sun. The natives knew better.
~ David S. Landes
This is CID homicide, mister, and neither heat nor rain nor gloom of night will stay these men from their rendezvous with callousness. Cruel jokes? The cruelest. Sick humor? The sickest. And, you ask, how can they possibly do it? Volume. That's right, volume. They won't be outsold, they won't be undersold; they will solve no crime before its time.
~ David Simon
I was thinking..." "We know," Pedro said, "It was like sitting next to a pressure cooker
~ Davis Bunn
The meal is hot, but still delicious.Life is hard, but still beautiful.
~ Yohann Dafeu
If you think I'm dressing up as your ecclesiastical secretary like the last time, it's a no go. I'm not wearing a cassock in this heat.
~ Jean Anouilh
On gratte, on gratte, et puis très vite on respire mal, on sue, il commence à faire terriblement chaud
~ Jean Echenoz
Morning is when the wick is lit. A flame ignited, the day delighted with heat and light, we start the fight for something more than before.
~ Jeb Dickerson