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Quotes About Heat

If you've had good gin on a hot day in Southern California with the people you love, you forget Nebraska. The two things cannot coexist. The stronger, better of the two wins.
~ Ann Patchett
The fierce tension in me, when it is properly channeled, creates the good tension for work. But when it becomes unbalanced I am destructive. How to isolate that good tension is my problem these days. Or, put in another way, how to turn the heat down fast enough so the soup won't boil over!
~ May Sarton
He wrapped one arm around her waist, and cupped her nape with his other hand. This time when he kissed her there was none of the restraint she'd seen in the past. It was like kissing an inferno. Hot, breathless, so overwhelming that her senses shattered.
~ Maya Banks
sometimes, when the sun shines, it scorches.
~ Melissa de la Cruz
The idea that they were going to have to-eventually-go someplace that was even hotter than this was now was worrying Harrier, but there wasn't much he could do about it at the moment. He couldn't imagine why anybody would want to live here if they had a choice. Sometimes, he thought, people were idiots.
~ Mercedes Lackey
Physical science, more or less unconsciously, has drifted into the view that all natural phenomena ought to be reduced to motions. Light and heat and sound are all due to wave-motions, which travel from the body emitting them to the person who sees light or feels heat or hears sound.
~ Bertrand Russell
Always deep fry in a nonreactive, heavy pot with high sides, like an enameled Dutch oven. A heavy pot ensures even heating which means more even cooking.
~ Claire Saffitz
First rule of change is controversy. You can't get away from it for the simple reason all issues are controversial. Change means movement, and movement means friction, and friction means heat, and heat means controversy.
~ Saul Alinsky
It doesn't matter where I am, what I do, whether I'm in the sauna, whether I'm on the beach, whether I'm with my girl at the spa - man's never hot. It's that simple.
~ Michael Dapaah
Watch the shagging, you little bastard!' he shouted. 'Fucking look at it!' Hot sun was burning the
~ Stuart Howarth
The month of August had turned into a griddle where the days just lay there and sizzled.
~ Sue Monk Kidd
After my first winter in the North, I had an entirely new appreciation for heat.
~ Sue Monk Kidd
What exactly do you want to sue her for? Kidnapping?" He brightened. "I hadn't thought of that. Sure. Kidnapping, but mostly theft." Jill had a bad feeling she didn't want to know, but she had to ask. "Theft of what?" "Buck's sperm. She was always after me to have him mate with her damn dog and I refused. So when her dog went into heat, she kidnapped him and locked those two together for three damn days. She could have killed him.
~ Susan Mallery
un día seco y duro y caluroso, un día de tanta luz que los cielos parecían blancos y no azules—
~ Juan Gabriel Vásquez
Aquello está sobre las brasas de la tierra, en la mera boca del infierno. Con decirle que muchos de los que allí se mueren al llegar al infierno regresan por su cobija.
~ Juan Rulfo
There was no air; only the dead, still night fired by the dog days of August. Not a breath. I had to suck in the same air I exhaled, cupping it in my hands before it escaped. I felt it, in and out, less each time…until it was so thin it slipped through my fingers forever. I mean, forever.
~ Juan Rulfo
Así me gusta: una verdadera y cantante amenaza. Es lo que me faltaba. Pero no me calienta. Acá hay una red de amenazantes y amenazados y yo confío en las cartas que tengo.
~ Juan Sasturain
Alabama sun was really something, Willie thought, it was really something. It battered you, enshrouded you, like it had made a pact with hell and humidity to bring you to your knees.
~ Judy Reene Singer
I did feel support right from the start from LeBron. He's always shown me a great deal of respect dating back to our battles when I was in Indiana and competing with the Heat in the conference finals, and coaching him in the All-Star Game.
~ Frank Vogel
Open-faced, traditional, wood-burning fireplaces are very inefficient.
~ Jonathan Scott
it seemed much more likely to scald and burn from sex and rage instead.
~ Eve Babitz
You know how to cook steak?" he asked, his voice warming slightly. "Light a match under it. If it doesn't kick, it's dead and done.
~ Faith Hunter
El café debía ser caliente como el amor, dulce como el pecado y negro como el infierno.
~ Fernando Del Paso
The passionate fury in every line of her body made Cullen go still. The sudden vision of Rachel locked beneath him, her legs wrapped around his waist, that wild gaze linked passionately with his as he pushed himself inside her, flooded his loins with a throbbing, painful heat. A groan rolled through him, and he broke out in a sweat. Sweet hell He wanted her. Here. Now. And God help them both, but she wanted him, too.
~ Fiona Brand