Boiling Water Quotes

• Karate is like boiling water, if you do not heat it constantly, it will cool.

  Gichin Funakoshi

  Water, Heat, Karate

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• I drank some boiling water because I wanted to whistle.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

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• You really get the most out of sweet corn if you pick the corn off the stalk and rush it to a pot of boiling water. The longer you wait, the more sugar you lose. But if you get it in the first half hour, that is the sweetest corn ever.

  Sam Donaldson

  Sweet, Water, Waiting

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• When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspiring, Stupid, Water

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If you throw a frog in a pot of boiling water, it will hop right out. But if you put that frog in a pot of tepid water and slowly warm it, the frog doesn't figure out what going on until it's too late. Boiled frog. It's just a metter of working by slow degrees.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Water, Degrees, Too Late

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• Surrendering is not a weakness. At the contrary it is strength. The surrender stops living in boiling water and starts living in a secure place.

  Shams Tabrizi

  Water, Weakness, Surrender

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• Tagalog sounds like boiling water.

  Jim Paredes

  Water, Sound, Boiling

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• I often put boiling water in the freezer. Then whenever I need boiling water,I simply defrost it.

  Gracie Allen

  Water, Needs, Freezer

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• Karate is like boiling water: without heat, it returns to it's tepid state

  Gichin Funakoshi

  Water, Return, Heat

  Gichin Funakoshi, Genwa Nakasone, Jotaro Takagi (2003). “空手道二十訓: The Spiritual Legacy of the Master”, p.126, Kodansha International

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• Then there's your diet. You cut out sugars, fat, soy sauces... anything that's nice. Tea and coffee is replaced by boiling water with lemon. It's amazing how quickly you get into it. There's also herbal tea and a lot of water, obviously... about two litres a day.

  Tom Hardy

  Nice, Coffee, Cutting

  "Bronson - Tom Hardy interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• My parents would have to put the fire hose on me to get me out of bed, to go to school in the morning. They would use a cattle prod and just shock me, or throw boiling water on me, or fire a gun next to my head, to get me out of bed.

  Jackson Rathbone

  Morning, School, Gun

  Source: collider.com

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• The sin we commit against each other as women is lack of support. We hurt. We hurt each other. We hide. We project. We become mute or duplicitous, and we fester like boiling water until one day we erupt like a geyser. Do we forget we unravel in grief?

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Hurt, Grief, Water

  Terry Tempest Williams (2012). “When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice”, p.181, Macmillan

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• I knew I wanted to be a performer and do comedy at 5 years old. My dad's wife, Marlene Rosenbaum, was boiling water and she goes, "What do you want to be when you grow up?" I said, "A comedian." And she laughed and laughed because she thought that was the cutest, funniest thing.

  Sandra Bernhard

  Growing Up, Dad, Years

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Given that you're meeting a sloth, that feeling is generally joy, excitement, warmth, and love. What do those feelings smell like, you ask? Like laundry, watermelon rind, the top of a baby's head, boiling water, and fresh cut grass all mixed together.

  Ann Burton

  Baby, Cutting, Smell

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• I consider the 3 most cruelly produced foods to be from lobsters, dropped alive into boiling water, veal from calves separated from their mothers and kept in crates, and pate de foie gras.

  Cleveland Amory

  Mother, Water, Lobster

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• All men possess in their bodies a poison which acts upon serpents; and the human saliva, it is said, makes them take to flight, as though they had been touched with boiling water. The same substance, it is said, destroys them the moment it enters their throat.

  Pliny the Elder

  Men, Water, Poison

  Pliny the Elder (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Pliny the Elder (Illustrated)”, p.396, Delphi Classics

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• Telling a butler how to make good tea; Warm the pot first, please, then put two heaping teaspoonfuls in the pot no bags in boiling water, and when it's in, stir it. And when it comes here, I will stir it again.

  Lynn Fontanne

  Two, Water, Tea

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• Since the advent of the Internet - more recently compounded by blogging - everyone can be a published voice. Any cowardly, anonymous anger-monger can have an audience of thousands. That doesn't make them a journalist any more than my throwing an onion and a few carrots into a pot of boiling water makes me Julia Child.

  Lynda Resnick

  Children, Voice, Water

  "Finding the Voice of Truth Amid the Noise of Old and New Media" by Lynda Resnick, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 21, 2009.

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• If a lobster didn't look like a sci-fi monster, people would be less able to drop him alive into boiling water.

  George Carlin

  People, Water, Monsters

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• I've heard that people stand in bad situations because a relationship like that gets turned up by degrees. It is said that a frog will jump out of a pot of boiling water. Place him in a pot and turn it up a little at a time, and he will stay until he is boiled to death. Us frogs understand this.

  Deb Caletti

  Water, People, Abuse

  Deb Caletti (2011). “Stay”, p.135, Simon and Schuster

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• Three in the morning. Making yourself a cup of coffee in the dark, using a flashlight when you pour the boiling water.

  William Gibson

  Morning, Coffee, Dark

  William Gibson (1987). “Burning Chrome”, New York : Ace Books

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• The other girls in the village never felt restless. Nhamo was like a pot of boiling water. 'I want...I want...,' she whispered to herself, but she didn't know what she wanted and she had no idea how to find it.

  Nancy Farmer

  Girl, Ideas, Water

  Nancy Farmer (2010). “A Girl Named Disaster”, p.2, Scholastic Inc.

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