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Quotes About Searing

Flash photography can be horrible. In the hands of an expert who knows how to bounce all that searing bright light in the right direction, it may make an impossible picture workable.
~ David Hewson
For now let me say only this: if sportswriting teaches you anything, and there is much truth to it as well as plenty of lies, it is that for your life to be worth anything you must sooner or later face the possibility of terrible, searing regret. Though you must also manage to avoid it or your life will be ruined.
~ Richard Ford
if sportswriting teaches you anything, and there is much truth to it as well as plenty of lies, it is that for your life to be worth anything you must sooner or later face the possibility of terrible, searing regret. Though you must also manage to avoid it or your life will be ruined.
~ Richard Ford
The searing light of morning Asks unwelcome questions, Fragile hopes soon blistered by daylight.
~ Scott Hastie
Writhe and sway to music's pain searing with asides, caress death with a lover's touch for it shall be your bride.
~ Lou Reed
Personal power is really the issue. It is only through tremendous attention to detail that you will be able to gain personal power and searing self-honesty.
~ Frederick Lenz
Her fingers were burning hot. I felt as if she was branding me. For life.
~ Jean-Claude Izzo
It was a hot day, the sun biting the skin like it had teeth.
~ Khaled Hosseini
The instant that the blade tore open his flesh, the bright disk of the sun soared up and exploded behind his eyelids.
~ Yukio Mishima
The blow had cauterized instantly.
~ Alan Dean Foster
Your goal when searing a steak is to make sure that the temperature and evaporation buckets are as small as possible, so that you can rapidly fill them up and move on to the important process of browning.
~ J. Kenji Lopez-Alt
If you are working with high quality products, you can elevate the flavors more by cooking it at a low temperature than you can by searing it.
~ Daniel Humm
it was as hot as the nails in the planks on the bottom floor of Dante's hell.
~ Dorothea Benton Frank
In that instant, Gogolov feared death. He could feel himself falling through the dark void of space. He was flailing and terrified and utterly alone. He braced for impact, but it never came. He cried for mercy he would never see. He felt the searing heat and the demons ripping at his eyes and face with claws like razors. And then, in a terrifying flash of clarity, he realized it would never end.
~ Joel C Rosenberg
Heat cupped his body, pressed his skin. He writhed away from it, sure that there were flames and that the flames had seared his eyes from his head, because surely there could be no such agony in darkness.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Kit turned to fix Ben with a glare, but the wry bemusement on the young poet's face turned a searing glance into a sideways shrug. One that made Ben cough again, and then burst out laughing, both hands over his face.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Sichuan [cuisine] is actually a wonderfully sadomasochistic interplay between pleasure and pain, between the scorching, searing bite of the dried red Sichuan pepper and the cooling, more floral relief, the tingling, numbing component of the tiny black Sichuan flower pepper.
~ Anthony Bourdain
My voice cut into the silence. The words hung there, searing themselves on the little room long after the sound had died away.
~ Jojo Moyes
Historically, almost every cookbook and chef have taught that when you're cooking a piece of meat, the first step should be searing.
~ J. Kenji Lopez-Alt
Spicy food and I have a close relationship—an obsessive one, in fact. If it's spicy, I want it. I want to sweat and shake and go half blind from the searing pain . . . which, now that I put it that way, seems really suggestive. But spicy stuff is addictive. That's a known fact of science.
~ Maureen Johnson
Dead and never called her mother, in fact," misquoted Sloan, who had once seen the Berebury Amateur Dramatic Society play East Lynne, and never forgotten the searing experience.
~ Catherine Aird
But the man who is aware of his own unworthiness and the unworthiness of his brother is tempted with a subtler and more tormenting kind of hate: the general, searing, nauseating hate of everything and everyone, because everything is tainted with unworthiness, everything is unclean, everything is foul with sin.
~ Thomas Merton
She was melting inside. Melting and burning all at the same time.
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
You are ice and fire The touch of you burns my hands like snow
~ Amy Lowell