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Quotes About Heat

Something can be real - actually existing, not merely illusory - and yet not be fundamental. Scientists used to think that heat, for example, was a fluidlike substance called 'caloric' that flowed from hot objects to colder ones.
~ Sean M. Carroll
When I put some Tabasco on things, and there's really nothing in Tabasco, it's not bad for you in any way, so that's kind of become my substitute. Now you got to get used to a hot mouth, but that's okay.
~ Mike Ditka
It was soporific to be mindlessly shunted about in a vehicle, to succumb to marijuana, the heat, the rhythm and roar of the jeep
~ Upamanyu Chatterjee
The streets are empty and quiet this early in the morning and I can hear my own footsteps as they fall. I can never forget the imperfections in these brick sidewalks, where they rise and dip around tree roots, where loose segments can make you stumble and fall. Mom is right, the morning is cooler than I expected, but I am committed to the cold air sting that will soon turn to an unbearably soggy heat. Such is the way of a city built on a swamp.
~ Uzodinma Iweala
Tulta munille!
~ Unknown
Too much beauty, I reckon, is nothing but too much sun.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I'm into carpooling, because sometimes my car gets hot and needs to refresh itself.
~ Mitch Hedberg
In the heat of the Russian summer a sleeping car is the most horrible instrument of martyrdom imaginable.
~ Manfred von Richthofen
The way to dissolve our resistance to life is to meet it face to face. When we feel resentment because the room is too hot, we could meet the heat and feel its fieriness and its heaviness.
~ Pema Chodron
Ódio vulcânico, tórrido, não o frio dos chineses que se consome com a vingança.
~ Unknown
Who can give more heat to the fire, or joy to heaven, or pain to hell? A ring upon a nun is like a ring in a sow's nose. Your best friend is still alive. Who is that? You. The sun is none the worse for shining on a dunghill. He must needs swim that is borne up to the chin. An hour's cold will suck out seven years of heat.
~ Peter Ackroyd
The heat outside was like a blow on the skull and the road back to the house was a long mirage, liquid and rippling in the glare, the leaves on the vines drooping, the farm dogs silent, the countryside stunned and deserted.
~ Peter Mayle
Metabolism, he reflected, is a burning process, an active furnace. When it ceases to function, life is over. They must be wrong about hell, he said to himself. Hell is cold; everything there is cold. The body means weight and heat; now weight is a force which I am succumbing to, and heat, my heat, is slipping away. And, unless I become reborn, it will never return. This is the destiny of the universe. So at least I won't be alone.
~ Philip K. Dick
If I had a type, I guess you could say I liked brunettes the best, and I kind of liked librarian types, you know, their outer appearance hiding smoldering heat inside….
~ David Lynch
I want to know if you know how to melt into that fierce heat of living falling toward the center of your longing.
~ David Whyte
He once told me that an August evening was as hot as three toads in a Cuisinart, a comparison that left me blinking two days later.
~ Dean Koontz
It ain't the heat, it's the humility.
~ Yogi Berra
But the light in front of the mosque-- the light I stood in as I was greeted like a local hero, simply for rising from my bed three hours after most of the women and children I lived with-- this light was something else again. It buzzed and held you in its heat, it was thick, alive with pollen and insects and birds, and because nothing higher than one story interrupted its path, it gave all its gifts at once, blessing everything equally, an explosion of simultaneous illumination.
~ Zadie Smith
this light was something else again. It buzzed and held you in its heat, it was thick, alive with pollen and insects and birds, and because nothing higher than one story interrupted its path, it gave all its gifts at once, blessing everything equally, an explosion of simultaneous illumination. "What
~ Zadie Smith
The sun lost its heat and wore down to the western horizon, where it changed from white to gold and rested like a huge ball about to roll on its golden shadows down the
~ Zane Grey
I've never been cold during a big game. It's the adrenaline. You're always moving.
~ Christen Press
Arizona is really cool but I couldn't stay there for too long.
~ Dar Williams
The summer in Arizona is too hot.
~ Ben Howland
Beneficent mother of gods and men… Valiant shepherd who drives his flock, Their refuge, made to sustain them…. He makes the seasons with the months, Heat as he wishes, cold as he wishes…. Every land rejoices at his rising, Every day gives praise to him.
~ Unknown