Jeff Smith
Chef
"Most seafoods should be simply threatened with heat and then celebrated with joy."
Heat quotes
Heat
182 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
"Coolness and absence of heat and haste indicate fine qualities."
Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosopher, Writer
"Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate."
Adam Peterson
Author, Educator
"Pre-heat the oven? Really? If I was the sort of person who planned ahead, I wouldn't be eating this Totino's Party Pizza in the first place."
Al Gore
Politician
"I drive a hybrid, and we've changed our light bulbs and windows and installed solar panels and geothermal ground source heat pumps and most everything else."
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"Fear both the heat and the cold of your heart, and strive for patience, if you can."
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"Wind is God's way of balancing heat. Wind is the way you shift heat from areas where it's hotter to areas where it's cooler. That's what wind is."
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"Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal."
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"And when you feel the heat, the world is at your feet."
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"Food over flame burns, food over heat cooks"
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"Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress."
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"Stillness overcomes heat."
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"I have come to know the mutability of all human relationships and have learned to insulate myself against both heat and cold so that a temperature balance is fairly well assured."
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"I never plan tomorrow because I don’t even know what I’m doing today."
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"We used to fuss when the landlord dissed us No heat. Wonder why Christmas missed us Birthdays was the worst days Now we sip champagne when we thirst-ay."
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"The Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat."
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"To engage in experiments on heat was always one of my most agreeable employments."
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"Mighty is the force of motherhood! It transforms all things by its vital heat."
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"Sorghum is kind of unusual. It can go to very high heats, but it's not as productive in most environments as maize is."
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"Activity conquers coldness. Stillness conquers heat."
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"...and rout the magical mystical moonlight with fierce proof of its own greater power to light, to heat, to make everything known."
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"Write while the heat is in you."
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"That youthful fervor, which is sometimes called enthusiasm, but which is a heat of imagination subsequently discovered to be inconsistent with the experience of actual life."
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"Love heats my blood, blood spins my head, and my head falls in love."
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"In the heat of battle, heroes emerge, sometimes from the most unlikely of sources."
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