Hot Water Quotes

I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Funny, Believe, Evil

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Human beings are like tea-bags. You don't know your own strength until you get into hot water.

Bruce Laingen

Funny, Water, Tea

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Desire is what takes the hot water of mediocrity and turns it into the steam of outstanding success.

Zig Ziglar

Success, Business, Water

FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Sep 20, 2013

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I started the day with some nothin’ tea. Nothin’ tea is easy to make. First, get some hot water, then add nothin’.

Andy Weir

Water, Tea, Hot

Andy Weir (2017). “The Martian: Classroom Edition: A Novel”, p.318, Broadway Books

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A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Inspirational, Funny, Strength

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The best way to keep your daughter out of hot water is to put some dishes in it.

Bob Phillips

Daughter, Water, Hot

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Remember the steam kettle; though up to its neck in hot water it continues to sing.

Brownie Wise

Water, Hot, Necks

"Sales Speech: Eat Your P’s If You Want to Grow Rich" by Peter Bennett, www.laverneonline.com. November 29, 2012.

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Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water!

Eleanor Roosevelt

Strength, Women, Humor

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Hot water is my native element. I was in it as a baby, and I have never seemed to get out of it ever since.

Edith Sitwell

Baby, Water, Hot

As quoted in "20,000 Quips & Quotes" by Evan Esa, 1995.

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People are like tea bags; you never know how strong they'll be until they're in hot water. In times of trouble, you not only discover what you truly believe but whether or not you can act on your beliefs.

Rita Mae Brown

Strong, Believe, Water

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We were so poor we had no hot water. But it didn't matter because we had no bathtub to put it in anyway.

Tom Dreesen

Family, Water, Hot

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Those who cook up stories will get into hot water.

Austin O'Malley

Water, Hot, Stories

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As a bathtub lined with white porcelain, When the hot water gives out or goes tepid, So is the slow cooling of our chivalrous passion, O my much praised but-not-altogether-satisfactory lady.

Ezra Pound

Passion, White, Giving

Ezra Pound (1990). “Personae: The Shorter Poems (Revised Edition)”, p.101, New Directions Publishing

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Optimism is the cheerful frame of mind that enables a teakettle to sing, though in hot water up to its nose.

Earl Weaver

Water, Optimism, Mind

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In the shower, with the hot water coming down, you've left the real world behind, and very frequently things open up for you. It's the change of venue, the unblocking the attempt to force the ideas that's crippling you when you're trying to write.

Woody Allen

Real, Writing, Ideas

"Woody Allen: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. August 8, 2013.

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There's loads of things you can do to make things easy for your throat, you can drink a bit of lemon and hot water couple of spoons of honey, you can gargle with port, I've done it a couple of times myself - but don't swallow it!

Cliff Richard

Couple, Water, Hot

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Life is a razor, you are always in hot water or a scrape.

John Updike

Life, Water, Hot

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If I'm sending emails, and I get all wound up and stressed and don't know what to do with myself for 20 minutes, I just go soak in hot water and lie there, thinking, 'What should I do?' So it's meditative.

Tom Ford

Lying, Thinking, Water

"Tom Ford: fashion's slickest control freak" by Tim Lewis, www.theguardian.com. February 9, 2013.

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Women are like tea bags.They do not know how strong they are until they get into hot water.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Strong, Water, Tea

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As you may know, KFC is under worldwide pressure to eliminate its cruelest abuses of chickens, such as cutting the beaks off baby birds; breeding chickens to grow so large, so quickly that many suffer crippling injuries; and slitting the birds' throats or dropping them into tanks of scalding-hot water while they are still alive and able to feel pain.

Pamela Anderson

Baby, Pain, Cutting

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I think that when you’re doing a comedy and it makes you laugh, there’s a certain… like you can reject it, and it’s okay. It’s not promoting it or making it seem cool. I think that’s when you get into hot water.

Michael Pena

Thinking, Water, Laughing

"The Motion/Captured Interview: Michael Pena in ‘Observe and Report’". Interview with Drew McWeeny, uproxx.com. April 7, 2009.

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Many persons are always kept poor, because they are too visionary. Every project looks to them like certain successes, and therefore they keep changing from one business to another, always in hot water, always ‘under the harrow’.

P. T. Barnum

Success, Business, Water

P. T. Barnum (2006). “Art of Money Getting: Easyread Edition”, p.26, ReadHowYouWant.com

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That's the old ecological tale that explains humans' inability to fully appreciate global warming. To wit: if you drop a frog in a pan of hot water, it jumps out. If you drop it in a pan of cold water, then turn the heat up slowly, you can roast it to death.

Clive Thompson

Funny, Animal, Appreciate

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I dont ever wear makeup. I steam my face. I put hot water to open pores and cold water to close them.

Paz de la Huerta

Makeup, Water, Faces

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We were so poor as kids. I didn't even see a bathtub, running water, hot water, commode - we didn't have any of that. We started with a humble log house, milk cow, garden-raised our own food, killed a hog every year in the fall, and had the meat hanging up in the smokehouse - that was our childhood, me and ol' Si.

Phil Robertson

Running, Fall, Kids

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