Quotes About Heat

You react to crisis the right way. You remember what Toynbee says? His theory of challenge and response applies not only to nations, but to individuals. Some nations and some people melt in the heat of crisis and come apart like fat in the pan. Others meet the challenge and harden. I think you're going to harden.

at the end of a breathless day when the air seemed so heavy and full of molten light, everyone sweated drops of gold instead of brine.

He could feel the belligerence growing in Freddie Miles as surely as if his huge body were generating a heat that he could feel across the room.

On the Newton Scale, the temperature of boiling water is thirty-three degrees.

I wasn't talking about the weather, said Abe. Although it's the hottest, most humid, most miserable goddamn hellhole I've ever been in. Worse than Burma in '43. Worse than Singapore in typhoon weather. Jesus, it's worse than Washington in August.

I hate the summer.

I've always played my best golf in the summer.

You're like a cold beer, darling, on a long hot summer night.

Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.

It's going to be a long, hot summer, we know that. It's going to be very difficult.

Working is bad enough in the winter, but in the summer it can become completely intolerable. Stuck in airless offices, every fibre of our being seems to cry out for freedom. We're reminded of being stuck in double maths while the birds sing outside.

"The ring of fire still burns around you and I, keeping our love hotter than a pepper sprout."

Heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do; they never strengthen the understanding, clear the perspicacity, guide the judgment, or improve the heart.

I was so mad you could have boiled a pot of water on my head.

I have an affection for those transitional seasons, the way they take the edge off the intense cold of winter, or heat of summer.

I also know how ruthless and reckless young women can be when their ovaries overheat. My darling little Tehuti's Gonads had caught fire at the first sight of him. I could think of no feasible way to quench the flames.

So the conservative who resists change is as valuable as the radical who proposes it—perhaps as much more valuable as roots are more vital than grafts. It is good that new ideas should be heard, for the sake of the few that can be used; but it is also good that new ideas should be compelled to go through the mill of objection, opposition, and contumely; this is the trial heat which innovations must survive before being allowed to enter the human race.

It was hot, the night we burned Chrome.

The boys were dancing. The pile was so rotten, and now so tinder-dry, that whole limbs yielded passionately to the yellow flames that poured upwards and shook a great beards of flame twenty feet in the air. For yards round the fire the heat was like a blow, and the breeze was a river of sparks. Trunks crumbled to a white dust.

Tú lo sabías, verdad? ¿Que soy parte de ti? ¡Caliente, caliente, caliente! ¿Que soy la causa de que todo salga mal? ¿De que las cosas sean como son?

The sun was rising behind her now; she could feel the heat on her back, and it gave her courage.

There is the heat, which clots the air around her and stops up her pores and her eyes and ears

Water is the mother of tea, a teapot its father, and fire the teacher.

Warmly, because my air conditioner is broken, Luigi L. Lemoncello