Thermometers Quotes

• A bad dream.To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is the bad dream.A bad dream.I remembered everything.I remembered the cadavers and Doreen and the story of the fig-tree and Marco's diamond and the sailor on the Common and Doctor Gordon's wall-eyed nurse and the broken thermometers and the negro with his two kinds of beans and the twenty pounds I gained on insulin and the rock that bulged between sky and sea like a grey skull.Maybe forgetfulness, like a kind snow, should numb and cover them.But they were part of me. They were my landscape

  Sylvia Plath

  Dream, Baby, Wall

  The Bell Jar ch. 20 (1963)

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• I have the thermometer in my mouth and I am listening to it all the time.

  William Whitelaw, 1st Viscount Whitelaw

  Political, Listening, Mouths

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• Cold! If the thermometer had been an inch longer we'd all have frozen to death!

  Mark Twain

  Frozen, Cold, Inches

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.58, Courier Corporation

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• True love is measured by the thermometer of suffering.

  Mary Faustina Kowalska

  Love Is, Suffering, True Love Is

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• You've got to be a thermostat rather than a thermometer. A thermostat shapes the climate of opinion; a thermometer just reflects it.

  Cornel West

  Climate, Shapes, Opinion

  FaceBook post by Dr. Cornel West from Jul 26, 2011

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• I know of no better thermometer to your spiritual temperature than this, the measure of the intensity of your prayer.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Spiritual, Prayer, Temperature

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1963). “Sermons on the Psalms”

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• Maybe forgetfulness, like a kind snow, should numb and cover them. But they were a part of me. They were my landscape.

  Sylvia Plath

  Snow, Cadavers, Landscape

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.122, Hamilton Books

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• To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream.

  Sylvia Plath

  Dream, Baby, Cadavers

  The Bell Jar ch. 20 (1963)

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• Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Power, Public Opinion, Politics

  Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

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• 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

  Baby, School, Boss

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• An instant-read thermometer is your best bet for making sure that meat and fish are cooked to the proper temperature.

  Bobby Flay

  Temperature, Meat, Instant

  Bobby Flay (2010). “Bobby Flay's Grill It!”, p.21, Clarkson Potter

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• The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.

  Salvador Dali

  Success, Jealousy, Artist

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• I think many cooks are afraid of undercooked meats. A good thermometer is a cook's best friend.

  Emeril Lagasse

  Friendship, Thinking, Meat

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• Are you a thermometer or a thermostat? A thermometer only reflects the temperature of its environment, adjusting to the situation. But a thermostat initiates action to change the temperature in its environment

  Nido R Qubein

  Inspirational, Positive, Growth

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• Certainly something had happened to me during the night. Or after months of tension I had arrived at the edge of some precipice and now I was falling, as in a dream slowly, even as I continued to hold the thermometer in my hand, een as I stood with the soles of my slippers on the floor, even as I felt myself solidly contained by the expectant looks of my children. It was the fault of the torture that my husband had inflicted. But enough, I had to tear the pain from memory, I had to sandpaper away the scratches that were damaging my brain.

  Elena Ferrante

  Dream, Children, Pain

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• I have invented the Thermometer style.

  Josef Albers

  Style

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• Often the tension that exists between the pictorial content of a photograph and its record of reality is the picture's true beauty.

  John Loengard

  Reality, True Beauty, Records

  John Loengard (1987). “Pictures under discussion”, Amphoto Books

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  The best thermometer to the progress of a nation is its treatment of its women.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Progress, Treatment, Nations

  Swami Vivekananda (1964). “Complete Works”

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• I like extravagance. Letters which give the postman a stiff back to carry, books which overflow from their covers, sexuality which bursts the thermometers.

  Anais Nin

  Book, Giving, Extravagance

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• It didn't seem fair to me that Jon Stewart's rally didn't get the same kind of attention that Glenn Beck's did. Why was Beck's seen as checking the thermometer of the country, and Jon Stewart just dismissed as a satirist?

  David Sedaris

  Country, Attention, Kind

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• Temperament is the thermometer of character.

  Honore de Balzac

  Character, Temperament

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• The Ocean Health Index is like the thermometer of the ocean. It will allow us to take the temperature to know what is going on at the global level, trying to integrate different impacts, including overfishing, invasive species, coastal development, and climate change.

  Enric Sala

  Ocean, Impact, Trying

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• And yet, I wake up every day to a sensation of pervading disgust and annoyance. I probably ought to carry around some kind of thermometer or other instrument, to keep checking that I am not falling prey to premature curmudgeonhood.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Fall, Wake Up, Kind

  Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Love, Poverty and War: Journeys and Essays”, p.9, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• No heating system can deliver perfectly uniform temperatures throughout a house, and drafts can magnify the perceived difference in temperatures. Try walking around with a thermometer.

  Seth Shostak

  Differences, House, Trying

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• The fact is that the camera is literal if anything, which gives it something in common with a thermometer... Often the tension that exists between the pictorial content of a photograph and its record of reality is the picture's true beauty. There is sleight of hand in photography... you make the viewer think he's seeing everything while at the same time you make him realize he's not. I try to make my pictures seem reasonable and then, at the last minute, pull the rug from beneath the viewer's feet, very gently so there's a little thrill.

  John Loengard

  Photography, Reality, Thinking

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