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  • As the temperature drops, the need for heating oil goes up. -- Christopher Dodd
  • It doesn't matter what temperature the room is, it's always room temperature. -- Steven Wright
  • Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart. -- Corrie Ten Boom
  • The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire. -- Hermann Hesse
  • A Harvard Medical School study has determined that rectal thermometers are still the best way to tell a baby's temperature. Plus, it really teaches the baby who's boss. -- Tina Fey
  • Nobody with an IQ higher than emergency-room temperature could ever believe that 'death panels' would be appointed to nudge the elderly toward euthanasia. Yet for idle entertainment, it's hard to beat Sarah Palin's ignorant nattering on the subject. -- Carl Hiaasen
  • The five-year mean global temperature has been flat for the last decade -- James Hansen
  • By the time the average Christian gets his temperature up to normal, everybody thinks he has a fever! -- Watchman Nee
  • An instant-read thermometer is your best bet for making sure that meat and fish are cooked to the proper temperature. -- Bobby Flay
  • I know of no better thermometer to your spiritual temperature than this, the measure of the intensity of your prayer. -- Charles Spurgeon
  • The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases. -- Larry Wall
  • There are three reasons for breast-feeding: the milk is always at the right temperature; it comes in attractive containers; and the cat can't get it. -- Irena Chalmers
  • Often for hors d'oeuvres, I serve room temperature vegetables, something like that, so that the main course might be quite rich but the first course has balanced it out. -- Sally Schneider
  • Abandoning the project was incredibly stressful after having gone through the process of building the room, installing the kiln, collecting the stones, sitting with the kiln day and night as it came to temperature, experiencing the failures. -- Andy Goldsworthy
  • We must not concentrate overmuch upon our feelings. Do not spend too much time feeling your own pulse taking your own spiritual temperature, do not spend too much time analyzing your feelings. That is the high road to morbidity. -- Martyn
  • I never waited for my Irish Cream coffee to be the right temperature, with a storm happening outside and my fireplace crackling ... I wrote every day, at home, in the office, whether I felt like it or not, I just did it. -- Stephen J. Cannell
  • For millions of years, this world has been a great gift to nearly everything living on it, a planet whose atmosphere, temperature, air, water, seasons, and weather were precisely calibrated to allow us - the big us, including forests and oceans, species large and small - to flourish. -- Rebecca Solnit
  • Meat is necessary when there is hard physical work to be done, or in a very cold climate, or when edible plants cannot be found...Animal flesh provides all the substances we need, both for the intensive working of our organism and for maintaining a normal temperature in cold climates. -- G. I. Gurdjieff
  • Future generations will wonder in bemused amazement that the early 21st century's developed world went into hysterical panic over a globally averaged temperature increase of a few tenths of a degree, and, on the basis of gross exaggerations of highly uncertain computer projections combined into implausible chains of inference, proceeded to contemplate a roll-back of the industrial age. -- Richard Lindzen
  • We only have to look around us to see how complexity ... and psychic "temperature" are still rising: and rising no longer on the scale of the individual but now on that of the planet. This indication is so familiar to us that we cannot but recognize the objective, experiential, reality of a directionally controlled transformation of the Noosphere "as a whole." -- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
  • The whole climate is changing: the winds, the ocean currents, the storm patterns, snow packs, snowmelt, flooding, droughts. Temperature is just a bit of it. -- John Holdren
  • Temperature is as far as the heat goes, people are haters cos im doing something good. Hate me dont hate the hood. It made me strong, you wouldn't last that long. -- Tupac Shakur
  • Temperature measurements in the arctic suggest that it was just as warm there in the 1930's...before most greenhouse gas emissions. Don't you ever wonder whether sea ice concentrations back then were low, too? -- Roy Spencer
  • My favorite Galaxie 500 album is the first one, 'Today,' recorded in three days at Noise New York and produced by Kramer. It contains my favorite Galaxie 500 songs: 'Temperature's Rising,' 'Tugboat,' and our interpretation of Jonathan Richman's 'Don't Let Our Youth Go to Waste.' -- Dean Wareham
  • It doesn't make a difference what temperature a room is, it's always room temperature. -- Steven Wright
  • It's about ladies, as usual. I'm telling the ladies I got the right temperature to keep them warm. -- Sean Paul
  • Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life. -- Wislawa Szymborska
  • Our daughter was born in Chicago, and she's already showing it. The temperature has to be approaching zero for her to wear a hat. -- Aleksandar Hemon
  • Those who deny human-caused climate change offer no compelling evidence to better explain the undeniable rise in atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases and global temperature. -- Alan Lowenthal
  • There's just no concept of layering a thick-sleeved sweater under a coat in L.A. A coat is more of a gesture than a necessity. You know, in case the temperature goes down to 55 degrees. -- Sloane Crosley
  • At synods, I usually wait about a week before I speak. First I listen. I feel the temperature. I listen to what has been said, what has not been said, and what I think needs to be said at that point. -- Godfried Danneels
  • I find that the hot yoga is sort of a false thing, so your body temperature goes up and you can stretch and you can injure yourself a little bit easier than if you work yourself into... if you heat yourself up. -- Tricia Helfer
  • I never waited for my Irish Cream coffee to be the right temperature, with a storm happening outside and my fireplace crackling... I wrote every day, at home, in the office, whether I felt like it or not. I just did it. -- Stephen J. Cannell
  • Many diseases including malaria, dengue, meningitis - just a few examples - these are what we call climate-sensitive diseases, because such climate dimensions for rainfall, humidity and temperature would influence the epidemics, the outbreaks, either directly influencing the parasites or the mosquitoes that carry them. -- Margaret Chan
  • Some experts look at global warming, increased world temperature, as the critical tipping point that is causing a crash in coral reef health around the world. And there's no question that it is a factor, but it's preceded by the loss of resilience and degradation. -- Sylvia Earle
  • The only way to permanently change the temperature in the room is to reset the thermostat. In the same way, the only way to change your level of financial success 'permanently' is to reset your financial thermostat. But it is your choice whether you choose to change. -- T. Harv Eker
  • Since we can produce all types of light by means of hot bodies, we can ascribe, to the radiation in thermal equilibrium with hot bodies, the temperature of these bodies, and thus every radiation, even that issuing from a phosphorescent body, has a certain temperature for every colour. -- Wilhelm Wien
  • Watching cold fusion is like watching water boil in slow motion. First, sufficient deuterium has to penetrate the palladium electrode. This can take a few weeks. Then, if excess heat is generated during the next month or two, accurate temperature readings require extreme precautions to exclude environmental effects. -- Charles Platt
  • In my head, I consider 'No Turning Back' my 'dipping the toe in the water' album. It was mostly covers of favorite songs, and there were three originals in there. So, it feels like it was just my album to see what the temperature of the water was. -- Imelda May
  • We can look back through ice-core data and see over 800,000 years, relationships between carbon dioxide and the temperature of the world. So those people who deny the importance of climate change are just wasting their time. They're also being diversionary because if we don't act the risks are enormous. -- Nicholas Stern
  • There are two different types of leader. A person can either be like a thermometer or a thermostat. A thermometer will tell you what the temperature is. A thermostat will not only tell you what the temperature is, but it'll move you to the temperature you need to get to. -- Kevin McCarthy
  • I'm an absolute connoisseur of cheeseburgers and like to think that I can detect even mere percentages of shift in fat content in ground meat in a burger and can actually name the temperature to which it was actually cooked to the degree if I'm, you know, really on my game. -- Alton Brown
  • 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
  • Why did the earthquake and tsunami occur in Japan? Was it the act of an angry God? No, it was the result of the movement and collision of the earth's tectonic plates - a process driven by the earth's need to regulate its own internal temperature. Without the process that creates earthquake, our planet could not sustain life. -- Adam Hamilton
  • You've such a lovely temperature. -- Ernest Hemingway
  • Fahrenheit 9/11: The temperature where freedom burns! -- Michael Moore
  • I think truth has no temperature. -- Cameron Diaz
  • Create the temperature of your passion! -- Ilchi Lee
  • co-dependence...taking someone else's temperature to see how you feel ... -- Linda Ellerbee
  • I got the right temperature for shelter you from the storm -- Sean Paul
  • Remember, color is not just color, but mood, temperature and structure. -- Van Day Truex
  • The soldiers currently manning our sophisticated weaponry have room temperature IQ's. -- G. Gordon Liddy
  • Perhaps the truth is that heavy literature blooms in extremes of temperature. -- Roy Blount, Jr.
  • Performing is very much like cooking: putting it all together, raising the temperature. -- David Tudor
  • When the audience comes in, it changes the temperature of what you've written. -- Stephen Sondheim
  • The closest I ever came to death was masturbating with a 104-degree temperature. -- Larry David
  • If you look at the last decade of global temperature, it's not increasing, -- John Barnes
  • The temperature of the tropic oceans is warmer than it's been in 150 years -- Kerry Emanuel
  • American coffee can be a pale solution served at a temperature of 100oC -- Umberto Eco
  • Any woman whose I.Q. hovers above her body temperature must be a feminist. -- Rita Mae Brown
  • Your temperature's normal, though I'd say it's the only thing about you that is. -- Anthony Horowitz
  • Friends are the thermometer by which we may judge the temperature of our fortunes. -- Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
  • One has to arrive at a specific temperature, at which the objects become malleable. -- Georges Braque
  • If age was temperature, You'd be getting hotter Happy 60th degree You, hot shotter -- John Walter Bratton
  • No one has ever announced that because determinism is true thermostats do not control temperature. -- Robert Nozick
  • Absolute honesty is as absurd an abstraction as an absolute temperature or an absolute value. -- George Bernard Shaw
  • I don't think if you take somebody's temperature a lot that will make them well. -- Edward Zigler
  • It's all about a balancing act between time, temperature and ingredients: That's the art of baking. -- Peter Reinhart
  • Scotland needs comedy more than ever. With the independence debate, finally after 300 years, reaching room temperature. -- Rory Bremner
  • winds are produced by differences of air temperature, and hence density, between two regions of earth. -- Evangelista Torricelli
  • Changes in clouds and rainfall can overwhelm what little effect CO2-water vapour has on temperature. -- Willie Soon
  • One does not allow the plumbers to decide the temperature, depth and timing of a bath. -- Jack Gould
  • My heart/ is whatever temperature a heart is/ in a man who doesn't believe in heaven. -- Bob Hicok
  • I feel my temperature rising. Help me, I'm flaming, I must be a hundred and nine. -- Elvis Presley
  • For every two degrees the temperature goes up, check-ins at ice cream shops go up by 2%. -- Andrew Hogue
  • To write at the same temperature at which I live I should write nothing but poetry. -- Anais Nin
  • Grief does not expire like a candle or the beacon on a lighthouse. It simply changes temperature. -- Anthony Rapp
  • I like Thailand, and I love coming to Asia with the whole vibe, food, temperature, and climate. -- Alistair Overeem
  • In a suitable temperature, an egg becomes a chicken, and there are no chickens born of stones. -- Mao Zedong
  • One of the terrible things about doing movies is that the writers never consider the temperature outside. -- Jamie Farr
  • Human kind has little or nothing to do with the recent temperature changes. We are not that influential -- William M. Gray
  • Wildfires are a result of temperature conditions, of soil moisture conditions; and, of course, something has to start it. -- John Holdren
  • The general trend in the last 4,000 years is that carbon dioxide and temperature have been moving against each other. -- Piers Corbyn
  • Nothing raises the national temperature more than a VACANCY sign hanging from the colonnaded front of the Supreme Court. -- Christopher Buckley
  • The general trend in the last 4,000 years is that carbon dioxide and temperature have been moving against each other." -- Piers Corbyn
  • But then, that was the trouble with relationships generally. They had their own temperature and there was no thermostat. -- Nick Hornby
  • If you asked a sample of Americans "What is the temperature of Mars?" about 8% would say they don't know. -- Herbert Stein
  • There were times last year when people looked at the scoreboard and thought my batting average was the temperature. -- Buck Martinez
  • According to the kinetic theory of gases, the mean kinetic energy of a molecule is a measure of absolute temperature. -- Wilhelm Wien
  • There are a zillion variables to a hamburger. What part of the animal went into it. What coarseness. What temperature. -- Danny Meyer
  • Is the mean temperature of the ground in any way influenced by the presence of heat-absorbing gases in the atmosphere? -- Svante Arrhenius
  • A nurse is to maintain the air within the room as fresh as the air without, without lowering the temperature. -- Florence Nightingale
  • A shady friend for torrid days Is easier to find Than one of higher temperature For frigid hour of mind. -- Emily Dickinson
  • Do not allow yourself to be a thermometer which gauges the temperature, rather be a thermostat which changes your environment. -- Asa Don Brown
  • Tuvalu's future at current levels of global warming is already bleak. Any further temperature increase will spell its total demise. -- Enele Sopoaga
  • If you have acid in food, you need to sugar it. At a high temperature, the acids are changed to sugar. -- Paul Prudhomme
  • ...the contribution of greenhouse gases to the Vostok temperature changes can be...between a lower estimate of 40% and a higher estimate of 65%. -- Claude Lorius
  • In the last two years 24 countries have set new all-time temperature records. We've seen flooding on an epic scale in every continent . -- Bill McKibben
  • There exists for every liquid a temperature at which no amount of pressure is sufficient to retain it in the liquid form. -- Thomas Andrews
  • A lukewarm heart cannot perform boiling hot worship! Heat up our hearts for God and the temperature of our worship will increase! -- LaMar Boschman
  • Take the emotional temperature of those listening to you. Facial expressions, voice inflection and posture give clues to a person's mood and attitude. -- John C. Maxwell
  • Entropy is not about speeds or positions of particles, the way temperature and pressure and volume are, but about our lack of information. -- Hans Christian von Baeyer
  • Run your own race at an even pace. Consider the course, the temperature, the weather, and most importantly, your current level of fitness. -- Marty Liquori
  • My findings have demonstrated that an optimal micronutrient intake reduces the desire for calories and reduces body temperature and white blood cell counts. -- Joel Fuhrman
  • Unemployment is like a headache or a high temperature - unpleasant and exhausting but not carrying in itself any explanation of its cause. -- William Beveridge
  • The only way I can possibly heat my so-called mind up to working temperature is to imagine I'm talking to someone I admire. -- James Tiptree Jr.
  • CO2 emissions have been increasing, but the rise in air temperature stopped around 2001. Climate change is due in large part to naturally occurring oscillations. -- Syun-Ichi Akasofu
  • The ocean governs the climate and the weather, it is taking care of the temperature and it is shaping the chemistry of our planet. -- Sylvia Earle
  • You can swim (uncomfortably) in water at a temperature slightly above freezing; a tiny drop in temperature-or a miracle-allows you to walk on water. -- Craig F. Bohren
  • But one immediate thing can be done right now, and that is: lower the temperature. Any way you can, and everybody. Just lower it. -- Peggy Noonan
  • There is no problem with global warming. It stopped in 1998. The last two years of global cooling have erased nearly thirty years of temperature increase. -- Ian Plimer
  • Deeper than temperature and the extinction of the polar bear is the idea that we all share this beautiful, ailing planet, Democrats and Republicans alike. -- Sheryl Crow
  • This warning from the New York City Department of Health Fraud: Be suspicious of any doctor who tries to take your temperature with his finger. -- David Letterman
  • The illusion is an agreement between the reader and writer that this [story] will be like life. The emotional temperature drops when you have footnotes. -- John Updike
  • Nothing is more dangerous in wartime than to live in the temperamental atmosphere of a Gallup Poll, always feeling one's pulse and taking one's temperature. -- Winston Churchill
  • I've tried every kind of bottled water, but Poland Spring is my go-to. I always have room-temperature bottles of it on side of stage for post-performance. -- French Montana
  • The world of rumor and gossip is like a privileged world with which a social scientist or an anthropologist can take the temperature of popular aspirations. -- James C. Scott
  • The average ground temperature of the Earth is impossible to measure since most of the Earth is ocean...So this average ground temperature is a fiction. -- Freeman Dyson
  • If you want to keep your side dishes warmer than room temperature, consider buying a small steam table for the home, with the Sterno cans underneath. -- Jose Andres Puerta
  • The metal of economic theory is in Marx's pages immersed in such a wealth of steaming phrases as to acquire a temperature not naturally its own. -- Joseph A. Schumpeter
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