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Quotes About Heat

A pamphlet by "A Little Mother" typically declared that "we women . . . will tolerate no such cry as 'Peace! Peace!' . . . There is only one temperature for the women of the British race, and that is white heat. . . . We women pass on the human ammunition of 'only sons' to fill up the gaps." It sold 75,000 copies in a few days.
~ Adam Hochschild
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
Awkwardly pressed up against him, the Princess seemed to take no notice of their proximity. In the dampness, though, her body heat was near palpable to Luke and he had to force himself to keep his attention on what he was doing.
~ Alan Dean Foster
If I, the boiling water, And you, the tea; Then your fragrance Has to depend solely upon my plainness.... I have to be hot, even boiled Before we consume each other....
~ Dominic Cheung (Chang Ts'o)
The reason people sweat is so they won't catch fire when making love.
~ Don Rose
The fan wheezes in its losing battle against the heat. But it's trying, Art thinks. It's fighting the good fight.
~ Don Winslow
So I lay there, sweating and sizzling like a piece of chicken on a grill.
~ Jenny Han
Cehennemin en s?cak yerleri kriz an?nda tarafs?zl???n? koruyanlar için ayr?lm??," dedim...
~ Jenny Han
Trina fans her armpits, "I'm sweating, I think I need more deodorant. Kitty, do I smell?
~ Jenny Han
In those last weeks, we drove without talking, trying to outride the heat, each alone in the dream the city had become. I was afraid to speak, to touch his arm even.
~ Jenny Offill
If it is hot enough to barbecue," a patient of mine once told me as I sutured the knife wounds on his chest, "it's hot enough to stab someone.
~ Jeremy Brown
When visiting sites in desert areas basic safety precautions should be observed. Always take plenty of water; in very hot weather estimate a litre per hour. Always tell someone where you are going and at what time you expect to return. Never go alone; always take an experienced companion. The Society for the Protection of Nature also
~ Jerome Murphy-O'Connor
seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a
~ Jess M. Brallier
ONE MORNING IN AUGUST 1886, as heat rose from the streets with the intensity of a child's fever
~ Erik Larson
Because we would not wear any clothes because it was so hot and the windows open and the swallows flying over the roofs of the houses and when it was dark afterward and you went to the window very small bats hunting over the houses and close down over the trees and we would drink capri and the door locked and it hot and only a sheet and the whole night and we would both love each other all night in the hot night in Milan. That was how it ought to be.
~ Ernest Hemingway
It was hot, but the town had a cool, fresh, early-morning smell and it was pleasant sitting in the café.
~ Ernest Hemingway
What matters is our velocity. At this speed, the friction from hitting those air molecules so fast it's hotter than an industrial furnace.
~ Andrew Mayne
El calor es una materia espesa que casi puede moldearse con las manos», escribe durante la canícula, «te pesa en los hombros como una mochila, y se te aferra a la cabeza como una pesadilla».
~ Andrew Roberts
It was siesta time, which in Jealousy usually lasted from late morning until early evening.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
The weather was still fine, but waning in conviction, as if its hold on heat and light were growing weaker.
~ Anita Brookner
Sitting still, a person produces about 100 watts of heat. What if you could use that to charge your cell phone?
~ Lonnie Johnson
In the United States alone, 450 billion square feet of glass facade is produced every year. What if we could take this chance to use the glass to harness solar energy and allow the architecture to respond to the light and heat of the sun, to create photosynthesis and generate solar energy?
~ Neri Oxman
A God of fire is the only one there is. Our God is not like an iceberg but like a forest fire. He is never compared to the moon with its cool glow but rather to the sun, radiating warmth. He dwells in the light of the rising sun. Whatever he does shines brightly and is carried out with burning desire and a blazing purpose.
~ Reinhard Bonnke
Cities have always been the fireplaces of civilization, whence light and heat radiated out into the dark.
~ Theodore Parker