heat quotes

• Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress. (George Eliot) [heat/civilization & progress]
• Coal is a portable climate. It carries the heat of the tropics to Labrador and the polar circle; and it is the means of transporting itself whithersoever it is wanted. Watt and Stephenson whispered in the ear of mankind their secret, that a half-ounce of coal will draw two tons a mile, and coal carries coal, by rail and by boat, to make Canada as warm as Calcutta, and with its comfort brings its industrial power. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [heat/mankind/willpower/power]
• A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self-control is the rule. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [heat]
• I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world. (Mahatma Gandhi) [experience/heat/power]
• It is a talent of the weak to persuade themselves that they suffer for something when they suffer from something; that they are showing the way when they are running away; that they see the light when they feel the heat; that they are chosen when they are shunned. (Eric Hoffer) [talent/light/heat]
• I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. (John Milton) [virtue/dust/heat]
• Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself. (William Shakespeare) [heat]
• Heat, ma am! It was so dreadful here that I found there was nothing left for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones. (Sydney Smith) [heat/take]
• Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience. (Henry David Thoreau) [heat/thoughts]
• I don't always wear underwear. When I'm in the heat, especially, I can't wear it. Like, if I'm wearing a flower dress, why do I have to wear underwear? (Naomi Campbell) [underwear/heat/flower]
• But this is Miami, you can't come to Miami and not show any skin. You gotta show something. If you're all covered up in this heat, you're gonna make me pass out out just to look at you. It's sweaty in Miami-but the diamonds will keep me cool. (Lil Kim) [heat/look/willpower]
• Under the circumstances in the heat and not having played for three years, I'd say an eight (out of 10), other times even better. I don't know what else I should have done today better than what I did. The score says it all. (Martina Hingis) [heat]
• Being outside and feeling that sort of oppressive heat - it's flammable! And your emotions tend to run hotter and higher. (Dean Cain) [being/feeling/heat]
• I would give you seven to one odds that this is going to be a slash piece, but that's OK. I'm willing to take the heat. (James Woods) [give/take/heat]
• Oliver Stone's great. He shoots fast, which is great for actors but very hard on the crew, especially in 110-degree heat. (Tom Berenger) [actors/heat]
• But HEAT - playing a psychopath and guys that spend a lot of years in prison - that kind of mentality - but having to do it in a very specific period of time - it was actually good for me because I didn't get sidetracked. (Val Kilmer) [heat/prison/time]
• During Batman we had rehearsals for HEAT on the weekends and Michael Mann the director's great - he loves all the realism so we went into a bank once with flak jackets on under our suits and guns and the only person that knew was the bank manager. (Val Kilmer) [heat/manager]
• “Yeah, it's fun. I love talking about myself. And its yummy right now in the heat ...” (Gwen Stefani) [love/right/heat]
• “We watched the video of his first heat over and over, ... He was 12 metres back after 300 metres. To close 12 metres over the final 100 ... that is incredible.” (Tyler Christopher) [heat]
• If you saw a heat wave, would you wave back? (Steven Wright) [heat/wave/wave]
• When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat. (Nelson Mandela) [water/heat]
• I've grown this mustache which saves me from having to glue on one every day in the heat. (Keith Carradine) [day/heat]

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