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Quotes About Temperature

Artificial passions" could be easily stoked, he wrote, raising the temperature. A self-absorbed president, catering to the "worst caprices" of his supporters, could easily distract their attention from plodding matters of governance, and whip their enthusiasms into a frenzy, especially if he divided his supporters and his critics into "hostile camps.
~ Ted Widmer
The blood of a redheaded woman is three degrees cooler than the blood of a normal woman. This has been established by medical studies.
~ Joe Hill
And perfect happiness? Man, that's a...the pool is about 92 degrees, the Jacuzzi is about 102 and an avocado farm.
~ Jamie Foxx
On Venus you could cook a 16-inch pepperoni pizza in seven seconds, just by holding it out to the air. (Yes, I did the math.)
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
cool stars are red. Tepid stars are white. Hot stars are blue. Very hot stars are still blue. How about the very, very hot places, like the 15-million-degree center of the Sun? Blue. To an astrophysicist, red-hot foods and red-hot lovers both leave room for improvement.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Those stars with more than about ten times the mass of the Sun achieve sufficient pressure and temperature in their cores to manufacture dozens of elements heavier than hydrogen, including those that compose planets and whatever life may thrive upon them.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
the hottest part of the day on Earth is not at noon, but sometime after noon, because the ground absorbs visible light
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
On canvas with paint In the Artist's school It's red that is hot And blue that is cool. But in science we show As the heat gets higher That a star will glow red Like the coals of a fire. Raise the heat some more And what is in sight? It's no longer red It has turned bright white. Yet the hottest of all, Merlin says unto you, Is neither white nor red When the star has turned blue.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Since everything warmer than absolute zero radiates heat, detecting infrared at a distance means, in principle, detecting everything.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
One degree Celsius won't feel like much on any given day to any given person, but totaled across the globe, it's enough extra heat energy to power hundreds more hurricanes, floods, tornadoes, and blizzards every year.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
When its 100 degrees in New York, it's 72 in Los Angeles. When its 30 degrees in New York, in Los Angeles it's still 72. However, there are 6 million interesting people in New York, and only 72 in Los Angeles.
~ Neil Simon
When we were choosing homes, Czar made it plain to choose something we'd be comfortable in. This has a temperature-controlled wine and cigar room." She frowned up at him and then blinked, those long lashes fanning her cheeks. "Do you even drink wine? Do you smoke cigars?" He grinned down at her. "No. But that doesn't matter. It's just fuckin' cool.
~ Christine Feehan
American coffee can be a pale solution served at a temperature of 100 degrees centigrade in plastic thermos cups, usually obligatory in railroad stations for purposes of genocide, whereas coffee made with an American percolator, such as you find in private houses or in humble luncheonettes, served with eggs and bacon, is delicious, fragrant, goes down like pure spring water, and afterwards causes severe palpitations, because one cup contains more caffeine than four espressos.
~ Umberto Eco
Finally, the third law of thermodynamics, initially formulated in 1906 as Walther Nernst's (1864–1941) heat theorem, states that all processes come to a stop (and entropy shows no change) only when the temperature nears absolute zero (–273°C).
~ Vaclav Smil
The moment his hand closed about the stone, light blazed from it again, raying out through his fingers. For the first time Tessa saw that he had a design on the back of his hand, drawn there as if in black ink. It looked like an open eye. "As for the temperature of Hell, Miss Gray," he said, "let me give you a piece of advice. The handsome young fellow who's trying to rescue you from a hideous fate it never wrong. Not even if he says the sky is purple and made of hedgehogs.
~ Cassandra Clare
I could speak by then, but neither of us thought it my best trick. Very often my exchanges with Ceno went something like: Sing me a song, Elefsis. The temperature in the kitchen is 21.5 degrees Celsius and the stock of rice is low. (Long pause.) Ee-eye-ee-eye-oh.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
A hundred and ten in the shade is hot — but you don't gotta shovel it off your driveway.
~ Local saying
Welcome to Arizona, where the heat is sick of the heat.
~ Internet meme
It's colder than the hinges of hell a thousand years before the first fire was lighted.
~ Jack London
Submerging food in a bath of heated water - instead of subjecting it to the uneven heat of flames - means your food will never be overcooked.
~ Brad Leone
I play in the low 80s. If it's any hotter than that, I won't play.
~ Joe E. Lewis
One of the primary ways that astronomers study stars is to spread their light out into a rainbow, which we call a spectrum, and from that rainbow, we can learn something about what the stars are composed of and how hot they are, how bright they are, and how they're moving, at least how they're moving toward or away from us.
~ Nancy Roman
The perfect temperature for tea is two degrees hotter than just right.
~ Terri Guillemets
If soup isn't hot enough to make a grown man wince, it's undrinkable.
~ Terri Guillemets