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Quotes About Temperature

He pressed the icy glass against his cheek, literally trying to chill out.
~ Caroline B. Cooney
Montreal November 1704 Temperature 34 degrees It was the work of a warrior to enter the cave, jab the bear awake and tempt him, grumpy and stuporous, to come out where he could be shot. No fur was so warm, no meat so good, no claws better ornaments. Of course, one swipe of that great paw could break a man's jaw or rip off an arm, but that was why it was so admired and why the warrior who goaded the bear got the claws: such impressive risk.
~ Caroline B. Cooney
Deerfield, Massachusetts February 29, 1704 Temperature 0 degrees They crossed field after field, the Indians constantly demanding more speed. Mercy did not know why the Indians were in such a hurry. They had killed anybody who could chase them.
~ Caroline B. Cooney
Summertime, it gets hotter than Lucifer's tail feathers
~ Carolyn Brown
life at its most complete and comfortable can feel like you've suddenly discovered yourself sous-viding in a plunge tub set exactly at your body temperature. One day the water's no longer fine, which is when you crave a chill in your gut, a fresh sear on your chicken-tender ass, something to pep you the fuck up.
~ Chang-Rae Lee
The air was cold and wet, and if you stood still for a moment the chilling damp would creep into your bones. I could tell the temperature was taking a deep dive, and the bright sky of the morning was a fond memory. It was an appropriate day to dump a body.
~ Charlaine Harris
It might be late September, but is was hot as the six shades of hell.
~ Charlaine Harris
I feel like Miami is way, way too hot.
~ Fred Armisen
To go below one nanokelvin is like running a mile below four minutes for the first time.
~ Wolfgang Ketterle
By every law of nature and sex a kiss was the only rejoinder that fitted the mood and the moment, under the suasion of which Sue's undemonstrative regard of him might not inconceivably have changed its temperature.
~ Thomas Hardy
tale ossessione era come una serra: un posto a temperatura costante, senz'aria, stipato di varietà multicolori, di fiori innaturali.
~ Thomas Pynchon
She looked around, spooked at the sunlight pouring in all the windows, as if she had been trapped at the centre of some intricate crystal, and said, 'My God.' 'And I feel him, certain days, days of a certain temperature,' sad Mr Thoth, 'and barometric pressure. Did you know that? I feel him close to me.' 'Your grandfather?' 'No, my God.
~ Thomas Pynchon
She looked around, spooked at the sunlight pouring in all the windows, as if she had been trapped at the centre of some intricate crystal, and said, 'My God.' 'And I feel him, certain days, days of a certain temperature,' said Mr Thoth, 'and barometric pressure. Did you know that? I feel him close to me.' 'Your grandfather?' 'No, my God.
~ Thomas Pynchon
The weather offered a variety of aspects fit for talk, and the subject when broached was leapt on with almost hysterical enthusiasm, that each guest might express and relieve himself before the subject was left lifeless and limp, on the extremes of temperature, of humidity, rain, snow, sleet, the velocity of the wind
~ Thomas Savage
Warm in the sun, freezing in the shade, it was a season of extremes.
~ Kathleen Tessaro
concluded that the amount of heat exposure needed to kill off the wild yeast in honey is as little as five minutes at 150 F (66° C), or about 22 minutes at 140 F (60° C). I recommend the lower and slower approach.
~ Ken Schramm
I'll take heat rash over frost bite any day.
~ Ken Travous
A scientist may be able to measure coolness in terms of the temperature on registered on a thermometer; but no matter how accurate that measurement is, it still cannot capture the delight of a summer breeze.
~ Kenneth S. Leong
Gracie wished she'd unpacked her heavier jacket because when the sun doused behind the mountains the temperature dropped a quick twenty degrees or more within minutes, as if the thin mountain air was incapable of retaining the afternoon heat. She thought about going back to her tent to dig out her hoodie, but the instant darkness didn't encourage a trip and the warmth and light of the campfire held her in place as if it had strong gravitational pull.
~ C.J. Box
it was forty degrees outside.
~ Gayle Forman
I'm sixty years of age. That's 16 Celsius.
~ George Carlin
Re the temperature of Venus's surface No one had expected such a hot Venus
~ Isaac Asimov
Zero kelvin is the lowest possible temperature. At absolute zero, all motion comes to a standstill. It is obvious that a lower temperature is not feasible because there is no velocity smaller than zero and no energy content less than nothing.
~ Wolfgang Ketterle
Plate tectonics is not all havoc and destruction. The slow movement of continents and ocean floors recycles carbon dioxide dissolved in the oceans back into the atmosphere. Without this slow speed carbon cycle, Earth's temperatures would cool dozens of degrees below your comfort zone.
~ Seth Shostak