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Quotes About Heat

Holding each other, the rain cooling their bodies, they laughed like children. I expected steam this time, Jacques said, crushing her to him. Can you do that? Shea fit the back of her head into the niche of his sternum. One hand idly slid over the heavy muscles of his chest. Make us so hot we turn the rain to steam? He grinned boyishly down at her, for the first time so carefree that he forgot for a moment the torment he had suffered.
~ Christine Feehan
If the cycle of mating heat was anything like the desire clawing at him, he and Savannah were in for either a difficult time or a glorious one.
~ Christine Feehan
Tempest liked the feeling of strength in Darius's hand, the heat of his body warming hers, the easy, fluid way he moved with the suggestion of tightly leashed power. Most of all she loved the way his eyes burned possessively over her, the way his chiseled, perfect mouth tempted her.
~ Christine Feehan
The woman, as small as she was, standing valiantly in the face of the threat the Saldi enforcers presented, sent heat rushing through his veins.
~ Christine Feehan
I expected steam this time," Jacques said, crushing her to him. "Can you do that?" Shea fit the back of her head into the niche of his sternum. One hand idly slid over the heavy muscles of his chest. "Make us so hot we turn the rain to steam?
~ Christine Feehan
Fair point. I suppose dressing up in hot countries simply involves putting on shoes. A bit like Wales.
~ Christopher Fowler
She hugged me and I could feel the heat rise in my face, either from shame or love, like there was a difference.
~ Christopher Moore
A man attacked me, choked me, bit my neck, burned my hand, then stuffed my shirt full of money and put a dumpster on me and now I can see heat and hear fog. I've won Satan's lottery.
~ Christopher Moore
Alev görkemli bir ayd?nl?ktan, olaÄŸanüstü bir güçten ve bir ateÅŸ s?cakl???ndan oluÅŸur, ama bu görkemli ayd?nl?k ???tmak içindir; ateÅŸ s?cakl??? da yakmak için.
~ Umberto Eco
Heat thus occupies a unique position in the hierarchy of energies: all other forms of energy can be completely converted to it, but its conversion into other forms can never be complete, as only a portion of the initial input ends up in the new form.
~ Vaclav Smil
Finally, the third law of thermodynamics, initially formulated in 1906 as Walther Nernst's (1864–1941) heat theorem, states that all processes come to a stop (and entropy shows no change) only when the temperature nears absolute zero (–273°C).
~ Vaclav Smil
Energy is not a single, easily definable entity, but rather an abstract collective concept, adopted by nineteenth-century physicists to cover a variety of natural and anthropogenic (generated by humans) phenomena. Its most commonly encountered forms are heat (thermal energy), motion (kinetic or mechanical energy), light (electromagnetic energy) and the chemical energy of fuels and foodstuffs.
~ Vaclav Smil
love being like a lump of coal: hot, it burns you; cold, it makes you dirty.
~ Vasily Grossman
was so hot that every now and then a bird fell from the sky, landing with a little thump on the hard-packed dirt. The chickens sat in dusty heaps on the ground, their heads lolled forward, and the last two cows stood together, too hot and tired to move. A listless breeze moved through the farm, plucking at the empty clothesline.
~ Kristin Hannah
Eduardo started a fire, made a pot of ersatz
~ Kristin Hannah
The key to life in this dry heat was conservation of everything: water, food, emotion. That last one was the biggest challenge.
~ Kristin Hannah
The heat made people crazy. They woke from their damp bedsheets and went in search of a glass of water, surprised to find that when their vision cleared, they were holding instead the gun they kept hidden in the bookcase. Children cried out in their sleep, and even doses of liquid Tylenol couldn't cool their fevered skin. All over town, birds fell from phone wires and landed in pathetic, crumpled heaps on the thirsty lawns.
~ Kristin Hannah
tempers caught fire as easily as backyards.
~ Kristin Hannah
The heat of youth is not more opposed to safety than the coldness of age.
~ la rochefoucauld viii
Happiness. It was the place where passion, with all its dazzle and drumbeat, met something softer: homecoming and safety and pure sunbeam comfort. It was all those things, intertwined with the heat and the thrill, and it was as bright within her as a swallowed star.
~ Laini Taylor
She thought of Akiva, the night he had come to her at the river, the crushing pain and shame in his face, and love, still love - sorrow and love and hope - and she remembered the night of the Warlord's ball, how Akiva had always been the right to Thiago's wrong, the heat to the Wolf's chill, the safety to this monster's menace.
~ Laini Taylor
Beautiful men and women with distorted shadows came and scorched their handprints onto doors before vanishing skyward, drafts of heat billowing behind them with the whumph of unseen wings. Here and there, feathers fell, and they were like tufts of white fire, disintegrating to ash as soon as they touched the ground.
~ Laini Taylor
His arms around her, that's what she wanted, and… she wanted movement that spoke to movement, skin to skin and sweat to heat to breath to gasp.
~ Laini Taylor
Eran como acero y pedernal: se tocaban y se prendían fuego.
~ Laini Taylor