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Quotes About Temperature

statisticians sleeping with their feet in an oven and their head in a freezer because the average temperature is comfortable.
~ Philip Tetlock
And yet the feeling of injustice itself turned out to be strangely physical. Even realer, in a way, than a her hurting, smelling, sweating body. Injustice had a shape, an a weight, and a temperature, and a texture, and a very bad taste.
~ Jonathan Franzen
He had three ancient candy thermometers whose metal casings were shaped like fraternity paddles and whose nature it was to show no increase in temperature for several hours and the, and all at once and all together, to register temperatures at which fudge burned and toffee hardened like epoxy.
~ Jonathan Franzen
El sol bajo, en el cielo: luminaria menor, estrella enfriándose. Ráfagas de desorden, sucesivas. Árboles inquietos, temperaturas en descenso
~ Jonathan Franzen
Hospital" turned out to represent a punctuated tedium, the recurrence of blood pressure and temperature checks, the placement and emptying of bedpans and painful switching of IV lines from the crook of one elbow to the other, and the switching of nurses as day and night were destroyed and replaced with tripartite shifts.
~ Jonathan Lethem
During the winter much of Yakutia experiences a temperature inversion which results in an unusual phenomena. When the temperature dips below minus 53° Celsius, you can often hear a soft whooshing noise like the sound of grain being poured. It is caused by vapour in one's own breath turning to ice crystals in the cold, dry air. The local Yakut people call this sound "The Whisper of the Stars.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Era aproximativ ora patru dupa-amiaza si temperatura incepea sa fie rece. Vantul facea primele zgomote de noapte.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Still, winter is an abstract season: it is low on colors, even in Italy, and big on the imperatives of cold and brief daylight. These things train your eye on the outside with an intensity greater than that of the electric bulb availing you of your own features in the evening. If this season doesn't necessarily quell your nerves, it still subordinates them to your instincts; beauty at low temperatures is beauty.
~ Joseph Brodsky
The global temperature for 2021 is unlikely to be a record year due to the influence of the current La Niña, but it will be far warmer than other past La Niña years such as 2011 and 2000 due to global warming,
~ Adam Scaife
Antiphanes said merrily that in a certain city the cold was so intense that words were congealed as soon as spoken, but that after some time they thawed and became audible; so that the words spoken in winter were articulated next summer.
~ Plutarch
The Arctic is a place that historically, during all preceding human history, has largely been an icy realm with an impact on ocean currents. That, in turn, influences the temperature of the planet. The Arctic is now vulnerable because of the excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, with a rate of melting that is stunning.
~ Sylvia Earle
Failure to curb temperature increases will impact all countries, Ireland included, but with the most immediate and drastic effects being felt, in many instances, by the most vulnerable countries and communities.
~ Enda Kenny
At synods, I usually wait about a week before I speak. First I listen. I feel the temperature. I listen to what has been said, what has not been said, and what I think needs to be said at that point.
~ Godfried Danneels
For me, a great meal is a collision of company, environment, ambient temperature, the waiters, where you are emotionally.
~ Sue Perkins
It was so cold today that I saw a dog chasing a cat, and the dog was walking.
~ Mickey Rivers
I suffer from overheating quite easily.
~ Guy Pearce
I'm suited to harsh conditions, I don't like racing in the heat.
~ Lizzie Armitstead
In wintertime I like to wear flannel button down pyjamas, and in summer I prefer to wear, well... nothing.
~ Phoebe Tonkin
It's going to be a long, hot summer. The hotter it gets in Baghdad, the hotter it will get in D.C.
~ George Stephanopoulos
Arizona is the worst place to spend the summer - it's like 125 degrees - so my mom, my brother and I would go to the beach for two months to escape the heat.
~ Emma Stone
Like Hyderabad you can't shoot outside in summers. Similarly, Delhi gets scorching in summers.
~ Amala Akkineni
I hate sunshine so much. I can only cope with it when it's bitterly, bitterly cold.
~ Alison Mosshart
At eleven that hot night everyone in Texas was awake because of the heat.
~ Ray Bradbury
It was not burning, it was warming.
~ Ray Bradbury