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Quotes About Heat

The night was so very sultry, that although they sat with doors and windows open, they were overpowered by heat. When the tea-table was done with, they all moved to one of the windows, and looked out into the heavy twilight. Lucie sat by her father; Darnay sat beside her; Carton leaned against a window. The curtains were long and white, and some of the thunder-gusts that whirled into the corner, caught them up to the ceiling, and waved them like spectral wings.
~ Charles Dickens
Lightning flashes her blinding passion, Thunder booms his primal reply.
~ Terri Guillemets, "Heat," 1994
Hot lovers don't feel the cold.
~ Dutch proverb
The rain dwindled and stopped. The car windows were speckled with moisture, already evaporating in the heat. Soon enough, the sidewalks would be scorched clean, the sky clear, the clouds burned away into wisps.
~ Abby Geni, The Wildlands, 2018
O fair are thy days, September, The dearest of all the year; Thou art far enough from November, Its shadows we need not fear; Soon after the heat of August Thou comest our hearts to cheer, With ripened fruits from the buds of spring, With golden sheaves from fields of green.
~ J. Whitfield Green
Seen from above, the canopy of oak and make and pine is pierced by the pond, which looks back at you like some green eye, knowing and ancient. The air above the pond dives into clefts of coolness, then rises up at the warmth of the margins. Down the path, filigrees of blackflies and mosquitos dance in the heat waves given off by men and women and their domestic fires. Joyous bats dart about.
~ Grace Dane Mazur
Another visitor described them as "midget hells, where one lies awake and sweats the first half of the night, and frequently between midnight and dawn undergoes a fierce siege of heat-provoking nightmares." They seemed to be "designed by Detroit architects who probably couldn't envision a land without snow."19 Ford managers, said the priest, "never really figured out what country they were in.
~ Greg Grandin
Around forty children die every year after they're forgotten in a car
~ Gregg Olsen
If you're yearning for the good old days, just turn off the air conditioning.
~ Griff Niblack
Matar a alguien no deja indiferente a nadie. A nadie. No se mata a sangre fría, como piensan los que no han matado. Se mata a sangre caliente. Un avispero recorre las venas de quien asesina. Se siente en el dedo que va a jalar el gatillo. Un aguijoneo que provoca un golpe de sangre en el cerebro.
~ Guillermo Arriaga
No se mata a sangre fría, como piensan los que no han matado. Se mata a sangre caliente. Un avispero recorre las venas de quien asesina.
~ Guillermo Arriaga
I will endure until the stars wink out & the very last trace of heat ebbs from the cosmos & there is nothing but eternal icy nothingness
~ James Lovegrove
They spoke quickly, as though they were saying things that scalded their mouths, and had to be cooled with spit.
~ James M. Cain
I'm way hot, he muttered. But I don't feel sick. Just — way hot. Fang
~ James Patterson
Human skin hisses like a rattlesnake when it burns.
~ James Patterson
And that stunk like an eight-week-old pile of fish guts sitting on the hot blacktop in the middle of August.
~ James Patterson
Let's put aside the politics and trust the people. Let's embrace the unique opportunity we all have; take the heat and make the hard and difficult decisions, knowing that we're doing it to make things better for the people of Illinois.
~ Rod Blagojevich
You don't go to Palm Springs in the summer unless you're building a golf course.
~ Arnold Palmer
If a man has so much heat he burns your skin when he touches you, he's the devil. Run away
~ Sarah Addison Allen
I've really stayed up with the cardio, because I know the Heat are going to make sure they want us in shape, the best shape, our body fat and stuff like that. So I've been really keeping up with my cardio.
~ Tyler Herro
The physics of water is central to cooking, because food is mostly water. All steak that you cook is actually boiled on the inside.
~ Nathan Myhrvold
Tri-ply pans try to split this difference by sandwiching a layer of aluminum in between two layers of steel. They heat evenly and store plenty of energy. Tri-ply pans are also more sturdily constructed than disk-bottom pans, which have aluminum disks attached only to their bottoms.
~ J. Kenji Lopez-Alt
Ninety-five degrees in the shade characterizes the weather these days, and I generally make a few miles in the gloaming - not, of course, because it is cooler, but because the "gloaming" is so delightfully romantic.
~ Thomas Stevens
Why does he send war and epidemics? What does the heat of this great anger mean? Surely dying times are to make men die to the world.
~ Thomas Watson