Temperature Quotes - Page 9

• What would happen if the moon were not there? Then our tilt could swing wildly over a large range, resulting in major temperature swings. If our tilt were more like ninety degrees, the north pole would be exposed to the sun for six months, while the south pole would be in darkness, then vice-versa. Instead, it varies by only about one and a half degrees - just a tiny variation, because the gravity from the moon's orbit keeps it stabilized.

  Guillermo Gonzalez

  Moon, Swings, Darkness

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• We are at the moment looking at space as something to be entered by the tremendous thrust of a rocket because that is the attitude of attacking the unknown. And that causes us not to realize that we are already on the most magnificently equipped spaceship, which could hardly be improved upon. It has got a source of temperature and energy just at the right distance from it. It's beautifully equipped with oxygen, with food supplies, with all kinds of delightful things to do while on the journey.... and it's traveling through space at a colossal speed... and it's called the planet Earth.

  Alan Watts

  Attitude, Distance, Journey

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• [The Weather Channel] is the most watched cable channel in America. I'll repeat that. It is the most watched cable channel in America. They were worried about the terrorists immobilizing us, and a portion of our countrymen watch weather. 'Kay, you don't get any more immobile than that... unless you're in a goddamn coma. That means you're saying, "I'd go to the window, but it's too far." If you want to know what the weather is you go to a window and stick your hand out and if you want to know what the temperature is you drive by a bank.

  Lewis Black

  Mean, Hands, Weather

  "The End of the Universe". Comedy album, 2002.

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• Tuvalu's future at current levels of global warming is already bleak. Any further temperature increase will spell its total demise.

  Enele Sopoaga

  Demise, Levels, Global Warming

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Some field days can be tough. I've worked inside fuel tanks with 3 foot ceilings, in -42 to +42 Celsius temperatures, in snow and smoke and hail, and I've dug through snow and ice and pavement to find legal evidence. I've worked clear through the night by headlamp, and I've flown in a rickety long-islander with propane tanks strapped into the other seats. I've jury-rigged missing equipment, broken into my own truck, and cut out an emergency helicopter pad with a machete. I've been hungry, cold, tired, lost, injured, and downright hopeless!

  Mark Mason

  Tired, Cutting, Night

  "Career Spotlight: What I Do as a Land Surveyor". Interview with Andy Orin, lifehacker.com. December 10, 2015.

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• Mainly, of course, if you're not an ice climber, where you really need ice, for most people ice is a damn nuisance. And we just can't wait for it to all melt.And it's always a remarkable fact that it takes so long to melt because the temperature of the air can be well above the freezing point, and the ice is still solid there. So for most people, that's the experience.

  Ira Flatow

  Air, Ice, Long

  Source: www.npr.org

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• People said if [I] was at a party, it gave it prestige. I would let people know I'd arrived by letting off my flash... You could feel the temperature rise right away.

  Malick Sidibe

  Party, People, Prestige

  Malick Sidibé, André Magnin, Boubacar Traoré (1998). “Malick Sidibé”, Scalo Verlag Ac

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• Our lives change. Our feelings for each other change. Our bearings change. The song changes. The air changes. The temperature of the shower changes. Accept this. We must accept this.

  David Levithan

  Song, Life Changing, Air

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.94, Macmillan

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• If higher summer temperatures become the norm in the future, people will adjust. Perhaps they'll take naps more frequently in the afternoon and convert their houses accordingly. The good thing is that all of these changes will not happen overnight, but in the space of decades. We still have enough time to react.

  Hans von Storch

  Summer, Naps, Space

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• In fact, marijuana lowers your stress level and lowers your body temperature. It actually seems that people live longer if they use it. If you substitute marijuana for tobacco and alcohol, you'll add 24 years to your life.

  Jack Herer

  Stress, Marijuana, Years

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• Fahrenheit 9/11: The temperature where freedom burns!

  Michael Moore

  "Fahrenheit 9/11". Documentary, Drama, War, 2004.

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• If you're using sex to sell sneakers, then you're not just selling sneakers, you're selling sex as well, and you're contributing to the sexual temperature of society.

  Alan Moore

  Sex, Sneakers, Selling

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I think of great masters, like [Alfred] Hitchcock, for example, who works absolutely within this sensational realm. You feel like you can always tell what temperature a room is in a Hitchcock film because the people feel alive, they don't feel like they're just being filmed on a stage.

  Tilda Swinton

  Thinking, People, Example

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• It was a morning in early summer. A silver haze shimmered and trembled over the lime trees. The air was laden with their fragrance. The temperature was like a caress. I remember - I need not recall - that I climbed up a tree stump and felt suddenly immersed in Itness. I did not call it by that name. I had no need for words. It and I were one.

  Bernard Berenson

  Summer, Morning, Air

  Bernard Berenson (2013). “Sketch For A Self Portrait”, p.14, Read Books Ltd

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• If I'm going to understand the land, I have to understand the wind, the snow, the rain, the leaves, the ice, and changes in temperature. It just reflects a reality for me.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Rain, Reality, Ice

  "Andy Goldsworthy goes into the wild". Interview with Katherine Cusumano, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 26, 2015.

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• In some parts of the world, what you are doing is already apparent.According to the World Health Organization, the warming of the planet caused an additional 140,000 deaths in 2004, as compared with the number of deaths there would have been had average global temperatures remained as they were during the period 1961 to 1990. This means that climate change is already causing, every week, as many deaths as occured in the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.

  Peter Singer

  Mean, Average, Organization

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• What it requires is that first of all you identify the hazards: Where in your production chain can contamination occur? This could be a simple matter of cooking a product to kill bacteria and making sure that the product is actually brought to that temperature.

  Marion Nestle

  Simple, Cooking, Matter

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• We are reaching the point where the temperature standstill is becoming the major feature of the recent global warm period that began in 1980. In brief, the global temperature has remained constant for longer than it has increased."

  David Robert Whitehouse

  Becoming, Reaching, Periods

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• I don't see a lot of studio executives caring at all about what the culture is telling us. They think they make the culture. They're not out taking the temperature of things and using the results of whatever sort of cultural surveying they're doing to make movies. They're interested in doing things that people are already comfortable with, and taking those properties and filling them.

  Wesley Morris

  Caring, Thinking, People

  "Wesley Morris, boston globe film critic: 'they hate people who have opinions that run contrary to their fanaticism'". Interview with Naoki O'Bryan, jameson-zimmer.squarespace.com. April 15, 2013.

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• Because of the inherent time lag in the climate system, the greenhouse gases that have already been pumped into the atmosphere will undoubtedly lead to a certain increase in temperature in the coming decades.

  Hans von Storch

  Atmosphere, Climate, Lag

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Bloggers and other flavors of lone wolf are publishing heart-wrenching photo-essays from the front line of the recovery effort. Newspapers and TV networks? They're writing about the temperature of the water in some part (they don't specify which) of some damaged reactor, illustrating it with video screen grabs of machinery they don't understand enough to explain.

  Tim Bray

  Recovery, Writing, Heart

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• I’ve missed you,” he whispers softly. The air between them is electric as he leans in, gently brushing his lips against her neck. In the next room, the guests complain about the sudden increase in temperature. Fans are drawn from colorful bags, fluttering like tropical birds.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Air, Bird, Fans

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• Christian community is like the Christian's sanctification. It is a gift of God which we cannot claim. Only God knows the real state of our fellowship, of our sanctification. What may appear weak and trifling to us may be great and glorious to God. Just as the Christian should not be constantly feeling his spiritual pulse, so, too, the Christian community has not been given to us by God for us to be constantly taking its temperature.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Christian, Spiritual, Real

  "Life Togehter".

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• Grief does not expire like a candle or the beacon on a lighthouse. It simply changes temperature.

  Anthony Rapp

  Grief, Doe, Lighthouse

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• Molly: So how do you think of Bryce Hamilton crowd so far? Boys hot enough for you? Bethany: I wouldn't say hot. Most of them seem to have a normal body temperature.

  Alexandra Adornetto

  Boys, Thinking, Hot

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