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Quotes About Heat

Fuck, it's hot in here." He put the guitar down, stood up, whipped his shirt over his head and tossed it to the floor. Then he pulled off his belt like D'Artagnan drawing a sword...
~ Tiffanie DeBartolo
Most Floridians understand the danger of leaving children or pets in cars with the windows rolled up, where midday temperatures can reach a hundred and fifty degrees or more. But few give a second thought to cheap, throwaway lighters, which are butane under pressure and can easily explode at those temperatures, spraying flammable liquid all over the interior…
~ Tim Dorsey
more Australians now die of heat stress than die on the roads.
~ Tim Flannery
Noise about carrier M&A will heat up dramatically in United States and India. The pent-up demand for action is there.
~ Rajeev Suri
We go to the banya, the Russian spa. And you go into the sauna, which is really hot, much hotter than a normal sauna, and then they beat you with branches.
~ Rachel Riley
The live oak can grow sturdily on the hottest hills of central California, contrasting dark green against the golden grass.
~ Hope Jahren
I am heat obsessed. I crave the heat in my bedroom.
~ Cynthia Nixon
Think of how hot a fire must be to call out the will of iron that is in the ore. Iron is strong against every force except the one that made it into iron.
~ Norman Mailer
The consul was interested in his report. He was only twenty-four; and he had not been in Coralio long enough for his enthusiasm to cool in the heat of the tropics — a paradox that may be allowed between Cancer and Capricorn.
~ O. Henry
he had not been in Coralio long enough for his enthusiasm to cool in the heat of the tropics—a paradox that may be allowed between Cancer and Capricorn.
~ O. Henry
No matter how strongly and perfectly constructed, or how powerful a locomotive may be, unless the water is heated to 212 degrees, the train will not move an inch. Warm water, water even at the boiling point, will not answer.
~ Orison Swett Marden
The warmth of mutual respect...Not the heat of anger or the ice of hate.
~ Orson Scott Card
You will soon learn that there ARE no strange stars, no alien skies - No? Only skies and stars, in all their varieties. Each one with its own flavour, and all flavours good - Now YOU think like a tree. Flavours! Of skies! I have tasted the heat of many stars, and all of them were sweet
~ Orson Scott Card
What he loved in horses was what he loved in men, the blood and the heat of the blood that ran them. All his reverence and all his fondness and all the leanings of his life were for the ardenhearted and they would always be so and never be otherwise.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Spectre horsemen, pale with dust, anonymous in the crenellated heat. Above all else they appeared wholly at venture, primal, provisional, devoid of order. Like beings provoked out of the absolute rock and set nameless and at no remove from their own loomings to wander ravenous and doomed and mute as gorgons shambling the brutal wastes of Gondwanaland in a time before nomenclature was and each was all.
~ Cormac McCarthy
What he loved in horses was what he loved in men, the blood and the heat of the blood that ran them. All his reverence and all his fondness and all the leanings of his life were for the ardenthearted and they would always be so and never be otherwise.
~ Cormac McCarthy
At night I could feel the loneliness coming off both of us like heat.
~ Craig Lucas
In Cuba, everything seemed temporal, distorted by the sun.
~ Cristina García
It was a peaceful scene in the little garden. The heat was trapped there, reflected off the soft, flaky red brick of the walls, and the air was drowsy with the sound of bees, attracted by the marigolds and lavender which had been planted there to fetch them; for fruit will not be born without the bee, and the garden was given over to fruit. All
~ Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
Out here, there was salt on the wind itself that fell on your skin like rain. You could taste it. Out here the sun heated and the wind cooled, and the waves sang their constant song.
~ Cynthia Voigt
The oven was thick with grease.
~ Wally Lamb
As for me, I love screaming, wrestling, boiling-hot days.
~ Walt Whitman
Perché la minestra si fredda," he writes. Because the soup is getting cold.24
~ Walter Isaacson
Winter in 'Zona is spring Spring is summer Autumn is our winter And summer is Hell.
~ Cherishe Archer