Quotes About Heat

It's too late to sleep anyway. The coffee's gone cold, so I just heat up another pot. Tonight, I feel like my whole body is made out of memories. I'm a mix tape, a cassette that's been rewound so many times you can hear the fingerprints smudged on the tape. Press play.

Still occasionally mistaking brightness for warmth.

Hey, I don't claim to be cool.... but "the cool" wrote me a note to say, "can you turn up the heat!!

If it were not for the depressing heat and the urgency of the work, one could sit down and laugh to tears at the absurdity of the thing, and under the circumstances it is a little wearing. But our motto is the old west coast proverb, Softly, softly, catchee monkey ; in other words, don't flurry; patience gains the day.

As Anderson cleared maps and other papers from the table adjacent to his desk, I asked him for the heat content of the coal. His reply: about 12,500 Btu (British thermal units)

Reflected fire made the blade seem aflame.

It was pure Fire, and the blazes were ferocious, fiercer than she would have expected from Fire alone.

These days, only the heat of anger gave him the strength to keep moving.

There was so much heat and so little light in the debate that I thought a cooling-off period would be beneficial. And so I punted the contract decision to my successor. To my great dismay, I would end up receiving my own punt.

Miles later and the heat is just ferocious. Sunglasses and goggles are not enough for this glare. You need a welder's mask.

You're the only man I know whose brain don't work unless it's in the shade.

If you can heat some bourbon, I can drink it, said the kzin. If you cannot heat it, I can still drink it. Nessus?

Those huge stars have lasted for millions of years by taking care never to absorb any of the fiery rays lovers all over the world send up at them night after night. To avoid that, the star generates so much heat inside itself that it shatters the rays into a thousand pieces. Any look it receives is immediately repulsed, reflected back onto the earth, like a trick done with mirrors. That is the reason the stars shine so brightly at night.

We're not afraid of the dark. Our nightmares were born on sultry, summer afternoons.

It was like noticing the sun. You couldn't help but see it, to turn to face the heat of it, to bask in the glory of it. But often when the sun is high in the sky, the moon is up there, too. A dim memory of what she will be in the night, but there, nonetheless, dim and misty, hard and white. At night, there is only the moon, the sun is nowhere to be seen. There are no distractions when the moon rules the sky.

A tall, thin fireman with a grey mustache watched me stride across the street. He was still wearing a helmet and coat in the July heat. Four others had stripped down to T-shirts with just the rubbery-looking pants on. Someone had sprayed them down with water. They looked like an ad for a beefcake wet T-shirt contest.

Je weniger wirkliches Wissen, desto mehr Hitze und Aufregung.

Heat is in proportion to the want of true knowledge.

The rooftop beyond that was a lake of fire.

glass, a substance that went from liquid to solid through the use of fire and air

Is not Fire a Body heated so hot as to emit Light copiously? For what else is a red hot Iron than Fire? And what else is a burning Coal than red hot Wood?

On Venus you could cook a 16-inch pepperoni pizza in seven seconds, just by holding it out to the air. (Yes, I did the math.)

To engage in experiments on heat was always one of my most agreeable employments.

RADIUM, n. A mineral that gives off heat and stimulates the organ that a scientist is a fool with.