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Quotes About Thermometer

If you go to Minnesota in January, you should know that it's gonna be cold. You don't panic when the thermometer falls below zero.
~ Peter Lynch
The best value for money in cooking equipment, in my mind, is first a digital scale and digital thermometer. They're both about $20. They help you cook so much more accurately that they're both enormously valuable.
~ Nathan Myhrvold
Every glass thermometer has subtle variations in the size and shape of the bulb at the bottom and the capillary tube inside, as well as variations in the width of gradations on the side. The compounded effect of these uncertainties is that each thermometer reads temperature slightly differently.
~ Sam Kean
That's right," said Milton. "That's what you call a basal thermometer. It reads the temperature down to a tenth of a degree." He raised his eyebrows. "Normal thermometers only read every two tenths. This one does it every tenth. Try it out. Put it in your mouth.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
I wake up feverish, sore, uncomfortable. Is it sickness or is it heartbreak? I can't tell. The thermometer says I'm normal, but I'm clearly not.
~ David Levithan
At first it had slashed up the little silk pockets of her purse. Then she found part of an old thermometer container that slipped over the head of the scalpel, capping it like a fountain pen. It was this cap she removed when the soldier moved into the seat beside her and stretched his arm along the armrest they were (absurdly) meant to share.
~ John Irving
but more potent, which is not content with questioning the body but can command it, a febrifuge of the same order as the modern aspirin, which had not then come into use. We had not shaken the thermometer down below 99.5, and hoped that it would not have to rise from there
~ Marcel Proust
I think many cooks are afraid of undercooked meats. A good thermometer is a cook's best friend.
~ Emeril Lagasse
Cold! If the thermometer had been an inch longer we'd all have frozen to death.
~ Mark Twain
They passed a bank thermometer that read twenty degrees, but from the cold air blowing into the car, Halloran thought that was pretty optimistic. He'd heard once that all the thermometers in Minnesota were calibrated ten degrees high, just to keep the population from moving en masse.
~ Unknown
Trust is the glue in any relationship and is clearly the non-negotiable element of interdependent relationships. We will not be interdependent with those we don't trust. Trust is somewhat like a thermometer, reflecting the current state of a relationship.
~ Pat MacMillan