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Quotes About Heat

The heavy spacesuits are spectacular to look at but very hot. Putting one on was like going from chilly London winter weather to the Bahamas in just minutes.
~ Kathleen Quinlan
We were just covered in dirt the whole time. It was so hot - and that was in winter. I can not imagine what it's like in summer and how the people who actually live out there survive.
~ Toni Collette
The next innovation, Sensavision, will be like a Walkman attached to your forehead. You won't actually have your head wired because infrared wires will send signals to you. In 2007 Mick Jagger will be on stage, and when Mick feels heat, you'll feel heat.
~ Tony Verna
Nothing escapes God's knowledge. This is proved by the witness of the Scriptures and the analogy of the sun, which, although created, yet by its light or heat enters into all things.
~ Saint Ambrose
Women are like ovens. We need 5 to 15 minutes to heat up.
~ Sandra Bullock
According to the kinetic theory of gases, the mean kinetic energy of a molecule is a measure of absolute temperature.
~ Wilhelm Wien
Electrons are the carriers for electricity, but they are also carriers for thermal energy. This means thermal conductivity is increased when the carrier density is increased.
~ Mildred Dresselhaus
In this house, we obey the laws of thermodynamics!
~ Dan Castellaneta
Into this pour the purified juice: and put it into a pan of water come almost to a boil and continue nearly in the state of boiling until the juice is found to be the consistency of a thick syrup when cold. It is then when cold, to be corked up in a bottle for use.
~ James Lind
Summer in Seoul is full of thick heat that clings to your neck, the back of your knees.
~ Crystal Hana Kim
It is very hot tonight," Justin said, and loosed the folds of his light cloak, revealing the sprig of rye-grass thrust through the bronze clasp at the neck of his tunic.
~ Rosemary Sutcliff
Flames entered the room like dancers, orange-colored and whirring.
~ Ross MacDonald
Can you set her down at Burbank? I want to ask some questions." "I'm going to." The summer heat of the valley came up to meet us as we circled in. Heat lay like a fine ash on the rubbish lots and fields and half-built suburbs, slowing the tiny cars on the roads and boulevards, clogging the air.
~ Ross MacDonald
The redheaded homicide detective stepped through the door at 7:30 A.M. and out into the August heat that already had reached 88 degrees. By noon the temperature would hit 100, and by two or three o'clock it would be hovering around 105. Frayed nerves would then start to snap and produce a marked increase in the detective's business. Breadknife weather, the detective thought. Breadknives in the afternoon.
~ Ross Thomas
Heat cannot of itself pass from a colder to a hotter body.
~ Rudolf Clausius
Hot and bothered.
~ Rudyard Kipling
Only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the mid-day sun.
~ Rudyard Kipling
Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.
~ Russel Baker
There were no lions any more. There had been lions once. Sometimes in the shimmer of the heat on the plains the motion of their running still flickered on the dry wind — tawny, great, and quickly gone. Sometimes the honey-colored moon shivered to the silence of a ghost-roar on the rising air.
~ Russell Hoban
The rest of the time Olivia was alone in her big house with all the doors and windows shut to keep out the heat and dust.
~ Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Shortly before the monsoon, the heat becomes very intense. It is said that the more intense it becomes the more abundantly it will draw down the rains, so one wants it to be as hot as can be. And by that time one has accepted it -- not got used to but accepted; and moreover, too worn-out to fight against it, one submits to it and endures.
~ Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
The blazing fire makes flames and brightness out of everything thrown into it.
~ Marcus Aurelius
She gives him an LED smile: light, but no heat.
~ Margaret Atwood
Heat can never pass from a colder to a warmer body without some other change, connected therewith, occurring at the same time.
~ Rudolf Clausius