These heat quotes will inspire you. Heat is the quality of being hot or warm or the temperature of something or the intensity of feeling, especially of anger or excitement.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging heat quotes, heat sayings, and heat proverbs.
Best Heat Quotes
- “Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart.” ~ Mary Lou Retton
- “When you can’t make them see the light, make them feel the heat.” ~ Ronald Reagan
- “The good Lord made us all out of iron. Then he turns up the heat to forge some of us into steel.” ~ Marie Osmond
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“It ain’t the heat, it’s the humility.” ~ Yogi Berra
- “If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.” ~ Harry S. Truman
- “Don’t let yourself get attached to anything you are not willing to walk out on in 30 seconds flat if you feel the heat around the corner.” ~ Robert De Niro
- “When I feel the heat, I see the light.” ~ Everett Dirksen
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“Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
- “Noble souls, through dust and heat, rise from disaster and defeat the stronger.” ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- “If you saw a heat wave, would you wave back?” ~ Steven Wright
- “Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.” ~ William Shakespeare
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“I don’t always wear underwear. When I’m in the heat, especially, I can’t wear it. Like, if I’m wearing a flower dress, why do I have to wear underwear?” ~ Naomi Campbell
- “Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.” ~ Calvin Coolidge
- “Fire is the origin of stone.By working the stone with heat, I am returning it to its source.” ~ Andy Goldsworthy
- “This is a ridiculous heat wave we’re in right now, and to contribute, Newt Gingrich said that for the entire month of June, he will stop blowing hot air.” ~ Bill Maher
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“Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.” ~ William Penn
- “If you can’t stand the heat, don’t go to Cancun in the summer.” ~ Ben Stein
- “One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.” ~ Woodrow Wilson
- “Others are keen to see if natives other than us live better than we do, without heat in pipes, ice in boxes, sunshine in bulbs, music on disks, or images gliding over a pale screen.” ~ Ella Maillart
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“I can pay my rent now. I guess I could always do that, but now I can get an apartment with heat.” ~ Kevin Eubanks
- “First of all, my persuasion is what really breeds violence is political differences. But because religion serves as the soul of community, it gets drawn into the fracas and turns up the heat.” ~ Huston Smith
- “Tea is nought but this: first you heat the water, then you make the tea. Then you drink it properly. That is all you need to know.” ~ Sen no Rikyu
- “Rural American families who depend on firewood to heat their homes will be hit just as hard as those who use oil and natural gas.” ~ Richard Pombo
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“In the heat of our campaigns, we have all become accustomed to a little anger and exaggeration. Yet, on the whole, our political process has served us well.” ~ Edmund Muskie
- “Sometimes she has imagined what it would be like to fly, to live in the river, to run like a horse. She has dreamed of that freedom, that power, and fears the wildness in herself that wants to live as beasts live, moved purely by need and desire. She has felt torn between the heat of her limbs and the thoughts in her mind telling her to be careful and good and always calm. Don’t scream or cry, don’t run to him and throw yourself at his feet, pleading for him to take you in his arms, don’t strip off your clothes and run naked to the water, wild with wanting.” ~ Francesca Lia Block
- “I never plan tomorrow because I don’t even know what I’m doing today.” ~ Coco Rocha
- “My first book is really about heat. That book, for me, was an exploration of heat as ingredient. Why we don’t talk about heat as an ingredient, I don’t quite understand, because it is the common ingredient to all cooking processes.” ~ Alton Brown
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“Nearly all of our existing power sources are generators which use a heat cycle. This includes our coal, oil, and gas fired utilities, our automobiles, trucks, and trains, and even our nuclear fission utility power plants.” ~ Wilson Greatbatch
- “Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal.” ~ Dante Alighieri
- “When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.” ~ Nelson Mandela
- “…and rout the magical mystical moonlight with fierce proof of its own greater power to light, to heat, to make everything known.” ~ Irving Stone
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“Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.” ~ George Eliot
- “When you buy a gallon of gas, over 60 percent of the energy you pay for goes out the radiator in the form of waste heat? That’s why you have a radiator in your car in the first place.” ~ Wilson Greatbatch
- “If I ever find a pitcher who has heat, a good curve, and a slider, I might seriously consider marrying him, or at least proposing.” ~ Sparky Anderson
- “I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods.” ~ Wendell Berry
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“Recipe writers hate to write about heat. They despise it. Because there aren’t proper words for communicating what should be done with it.” ~ Alton Brown
- “Last year, I made a refrigerator in my basement. And I needed to because I needed to figure how – you know there is no such thing as ‘cold.’ There is only less heat.” ~ Alton Brown
- “Women are like ovens. We need 5 to 15 minutes to heat up.” ~ Sandra Bullock
- “I am not a demon. I am a lizard, a shark, a heat-seeking panther. I want to be Bob Denver on acid playing the accordion.” ~ Nicolas Cage
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“For one heat, all know, doth drive out another, One passion doth expel another still.” ~ George Chapman
- “Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.” ~ Denis Diderot
- “I love using gas grills because they are easier to heat and it’s much easier to control the flames with a gas grill than with a charcoal fire. Grilling is not just about lighting a fire.” ~ Bobby Flay
- “I am a leader. Leaders always get heat. They’re always going against the grain. Jimi Hendrix got heat; Bob Marley got heat; Miles Davis got heat. Every great artist got heat. Heat means you’re doing something right.” ~ Ziggy Marley
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“The Cold War isn’t thawing; it is burning with a deadly heat. Communism isn’t sleeping; it is, as always, plotting, scheming, working, fighting.” ~ Richard M. Nixon
- “I’m not going to go run and hide because I’m catching some heat. I’m not going to stay at home and pout.” ~ Andy Roddick
- “I don’t start writing a script until I can see it all in my head, then it’s a matter of getting it down in white heat.” ~ J. Michael Straczynski
- “Always keep your mind as bright and clear as the vast sky, the great ocean, and the highest peak, empty of all thoughts. Always keep your body filled with light and heat. Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment.” ~ Morihei Ueshiba
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“Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
- “Keep up your conjugal love in a constant heat and vigor. Love will suppress wrath: you cannot have a bitter mind upon small provocations, against those that you dearly love.” ~ Richard Baxter
- “Deal with the Devil if the Devil has a constituency – and don’t complain about the heat.” ~ C. J. Cherryh
- “Cities have always been the fireplaces of civilization, whence light and heat radiated out into the dark.” ~ Theodore Parker
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“If you can’t stand the heat in the dressing-room, get out of the kitchen” ~ Terry Venables
- “These rough sketches, which are born in an instant in the heat of inspiration, express the idea of their author in a few strokes, while on the other hand too much effort and diligence sometimes saps the vitality and powers of those who never know when to leave off.” ~ Giorgio Vasari
- “Eating coals of fire has always been one of the sensational feats of the Fire Kings, as it is quite generally known that charcoal burns with an extremely intense heat.” ~ Harry Houdini
- “I could never do a show, or be a personality like Howard Stern, where you take all that heat from critics. What he does, he does, but the critical heat would crucify me.” ~ Chuck Barris
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“In the strange heat all litigation brings to bear on things, the very process of litigation fosters the most profound misunderstandings in the world.” ~ Renata Adler
- “Here we grow the flax and grain; here we raise the meat they eat, and the wool to keep them warm; we cut trees to build their houses and firewood to heat their stoves.” ~ Ernest Poole
- “In the heat of the Russian summer, a sleeping car is the most horrible instrument of martyrdom imaginable.” ~ Manfred von Richthofen , Summer heat quotes
- “I just prefer wood. I like the smell. To me, it’s a lot cheaper than electric or gas, and it’s more convenient. It’s just a better heat to me.” ~ Junior Johnson
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“St. Louis is more humid. But after a while, the heat started taking a toll on us, so we started rotating a little more upfront trying to stay fresh out here.” ~ Leonard Little
- “I will not hesitate. Not for a second.” ~ Robert De Niro
- “I’m cautious about using fire. It can become theatrical. I am interested in the heat, not the flames.” ~ Andy Goldsworthy
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“I want to act because I don’t know how to do anything else.” ~ Javier Bardem
- “I don’t know why his lawyers didn’t tell him, ‘You don’t have to answer any questions about your private life, Mr. President. Let them sue you. Take the heat. You don’t have to answer.'” ~ Chris Matthews
- “Write while the heat is in you.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
