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Quotes About Temperature

He was able to find the intensity and beauty that he wanted, in the plung itself. Physical forces in a complicated coalition of gravity, acceleration, and temperature were powerful and intense enough to satisfy him. It made sense. Nothing was as comforting as the enduring purity of elemental forces, and returning to them could not mean defeat. But he never thought that he would die in a bark suit, strapped to a shock pancake, next to an incompetent midget.
~ Mark Helprin
Furthermore, the scientists who actually collected the tree-ring data that Mann cannibalized insist they're primarily an indicator of CO2 fertilization, not temperature.
~ Mark Steyn
have no way of knowing how cold (or warm) the globe actually got", how did the IPCC know it's hotter than it's been for a thousand years?
~ Mark Steyn
how about hollandaise sauce? Not for me. Bacteria love hollandaise. And hollandaise, that delicate emulsion of egg yolks and clarified butter, must be held at a temperature not too hot nor too cold, lest it break when spooned over your poached eggs. Unfortunately, this lukewarm holding temperature is also the favorite environment for bacteria to copulate and reproduce in. Nobody I know has ever made hollandaise to order.
~ Anthony Bourdain
Memories cool to different temperatures at different speeds.
~ Shirley Hazzard
The temperature was still in the eighties even though it was almost 1700 hours.
~ Sonny Whitelaw
Gonna be a scorcher again tomorrow. Bureau says at least ninety.
~ Sonny Whitelaw
Summer is the time when it is too hot to do the job that it was too cold to do last winter.
~ Mark Twain
Encontramos, na angústia dos que habitam regiões insólitas, o aspecto demoníaco da vida, mas também sua insignificância, o que explica que ela seja privilégio dos medíocres. Somente estes últimos vivem a uma temperatura normal; os outros, um fogo devorante os consome.
~ Emil Cioran
Life is the privilege of mediocre people. Only mediocrities live at life's normal temperature; the others are consumed at temperatures at which life cannot endure, at which they can barely breathe, already one foot beyond life.
~ Emil M. Cioran
We dress far too heavily. The fact is, that we would be a much healthier people if we wore less clothing. Ladies especially wrap themselves up too much, with the result that their blood does not circulate freely.
~ barrie j m ii
With a noontime temperature of 55o, January 20, 1981 (Reagan's first inaugural) was the warmest on record.
~ George Washington
She had every intention of maintaining her punctilious civility, and might have done so had he not said, as he took his seat beside her in the carriage he had hired for the evening: 'I wish I had ordered a hot brick to be provided.' 'Thank you, but there was not the least need to do so: I don't feel at all cold.' 'I daresay icebergs don't feel cold either, but I do!
~ Georgette Heyer
Do you want the window open?" "No. This room is too cold already," the little lady said. "You said a minute ago that it was too hot." "Well, it was, a minute ago." "Oh, dear me," said Maggie.
~ Gertrude Chandler Warner
A poll finds the average opinion of a group. It takes the temperature of a crowd. A swarm focuses a group together, in real time, and has them work together as a system to answer a question instead.
~ Louis B. Rosenberg
The tires were scorching hot, in fact I burned my fingers on one.
~ Malcolm Campbell
Dry-aging happens when meat has been left to hang out in a temperature- and moisture-controlled environment. Over time, the meat's natural enzymes begin to break down the connective tissue and rid the meat of moisture, which results in a rich, nutty, and tender piece of beef.
~ Brad Leone
The attempts to command the climate and decide about the temperature on our planet are wrong and arrogant. I wrote a book about it which was published in English under the title 'Blue Planet in Green Shackles.'
~ Vaclav Klaus
For humans, the Arctic is a harshly inhospitable place, but the conditions there are precisely what polar bears require to survive - and thrive. 'Harsh' to us is 'home' for them. Take away the ice and snow, increase the temperature by even a little, and the realm that makes their lives possible literally melts away.
~ Sylvia Earle
What about what Doc said?" asked Big Moe. "If we turn up the temperature it might hurt some of the fishes." "Collateral damage," said Sarin. "Nothing more. I tell you what, Big Moe, we'll turn it up slowly and the fish won't even notice.
~ Scott Bischke
Doesn't matter what I think or how I feel," said Doc Hansom. "Just go look at the thermometer mounted on the aquarium glass. That will give you your answer." Hansom went back to his inspections, leaving Tommy Tang to wonder why he had not thought of such a simple answer.
~ Scott Bischke
What Roop says is correct. That thermometer hasn't worked in years." Sanger paused, looking around for Hansom before continuing. Not seeing the goatfish, he proceeded confidently, "Actually, I daresay my own studies have found the instrument to be so imprecise that it is my professional opinion that the temperature is just as likely to be going down as to be going up!
~ Scott Bischke
Q: What's the difference between an oral thermometer and a rectal thermometer? A: The taste.
~ Scott McNeely
Summer is the time when it is too hot to do the job that it was too cold to do last winter.
~ Mark Twain