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Quotes About Heat

The Santa Anas blew in hot from the desert, shriveling the last of the spring grass into whiskers of pale straw.
~ Janet Fitch
Copper is a superb cooking metal, conducting heat so evenly it has unparalleled control, especially at low temperatures.
~ Andrew Zimmern
Opportunity, to statesmen, is as the just degree of heat to chemists; it perfects all the work.
~ John Suckling
At twelve noon, The natives swoon And no further work is doneBut mad dogs and Englishmen, Go out in the midday sun.
~ Noel Coward
Playing golf is not hot work. Cutting sugar cane for a dollar a day - that's hot work. Hotter than my first wrist watch.
~ Chi Chi Rodriguez
It is very important that when you put something on the grill, you leave it in place to cook. If you move it around too quickly, chances are it is going to stick.
~ Bobby Flay
Singing in the jungle was very hot and very sticky, which was a bit hard going. I had a little piano, which they trudged around on the back of a lorry, hoping it would survive the journeys.
~ Vera Lynn
Fire is the origin of stone. By working the stone with heat, I am returning it to its source.
~ Andy Goldsworthy
Hell's Kitchen is open 24/7, and I'm cooking on the stove all day.
~ Enzo Amore
I've really learned a lot, really learned a lot, love is like a stove, burns you when it's hot.
~ Roy Orbison
Grilling used to make me nervous, but then I learned to view the fire as just another source of heat, no different from a stove or an oven.
~ Samin Nosrat
In the strange heat all litigation brings to bear on things, the very process of litigation fosters the most profound misunderstandings in the world.
~ Renata Adler
I would like to be strapped to a giant rocket and fired into the heart of the sun.
~ Richard Herring
Eight in the morning, clear sky, already ninety degrees in the shade, the world was nothing like it had been yesterday.
~ Tim Lebbon
I clanked open a bonnet flap and was met by an almost visible wave of heat. The Model T motor's prodigious talent for thermal radiation would always amaze me. It was as if Henry had made a terrible miscalculation and perfected the external combustion engine.
~ Tim Moore
use fat, not water, to counter hotness. Capsaicin is fat-soluble.
~ Timothy Ferriss
To boil water, the MED is 212°F (100°C) at standard air pressure. Boiled is boiled. Higher temperatures will not make it "more boiled." Higher temperatures just consume more resources that could be used for something else more productive.
~ Timothy Ferriss
El «acondicionamiento hipertérmico» (o exposición controlada al calor) ayuda a aumentar la producción de la hormona del crecimiento y mejora considerablemente la resistencia.
~ Timothy Ferriss
Generally, I'll listen to an audiobook like The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman during the heat, then cool off for 5 to 10 minutes using an ice bath (I put 40 pounds of ice in a large bath to get it to roughly 45°F; more details on page 43) and/or by drinking ice water. I'll repeat this cycle 2 to 4 times.
~ Timothy Ferriss
Days grow hotter and life grows shorter. Time is somehow running out. She flips her pillow so she won't have to sleep on her tears.
~ Toby Barlow
My favorite thing about running is running when it's as hot as it can be, which is a little odd.
~ Scott Bakula
Between an egg that is fried and an egg that is cremated there is a wide and substantial difference.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
Hot.  Tropical, damp climates always made the skin sticky and hot.  Feverishly so.  Sometimes, I thought my very flesh would melt and hang from my bones like Spanish moss.  In Paris I whirled in lightness and freedom . . . flinging the past away until I felt cool and alive again.  But . . . the oppression came back, didn't it?  I shivered, it still held me down, sucked my breath away.
~ Parris Afton Bonds
I would say, "Breathe deeply," and you would breathe and remember that smell for the rest of your life, the bold, fecund aroma of the tidal marsh, exquisite and sensual, the smell of the South in heat, a smell like new milk, semen, and spilled wine, all perfumed with seawater. My soul grazes like a lamb on the beauty of indrawn tides.
~ Pat Conroy