Quotation Explorer - 'Hot'

PHOENIX, n. The classical prototype of the modern "small hot bird." - Ambrose Bierce
I will have nought to do with a man who can blow hot and cold with the same breath. - Aesop
It was almost May. I knew that New York was getting warm now, that London was wet, that Rome was hot -- and I was on Vieques, where it was always hot and where New York and London and Rome were just names on a map. - Hunter S. Thompson
Do not be hot tempered. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Sometimes we are that fly in the house, that thinks it sees an open window. So it crawls to, or flies head-on into clear glass. At times getting stuck between the storm and pane, it dies in the windowsill under a tormenting, hot sun. - Anthony Liccione
The definition of a relationship is like a shower. You walk in when it is cold, and comes out when it is too hot. - Jim Jensen
Instead of fumbling with hot beakers andBunsen burners, I concentrated on the leisurely pursuit of fondling. - Fidelis O Mkparu
Night was spreading slowly around the spinning Earth. It should have been full of pinpricks of light. It was not. There were five billion people down there. What was going to happen soon would make barbarism look like a picnic - hot, nasty, and eventually given over to the ants. - Neil Gaiman
Thankfulness opens the door and ushers in peace and joy like a blessed breeze on a hot and humid Louisiana summer day. - David P. Ingerson
It is not improbable that in hot countries, monkeys may have enslaved girls. - Voltaire
Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae. - Kurt Vonnegut
The great Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa said that to be an artist means never to avert your eyes. And that's the hardest thing, because we want to flinch. The artist must go into the white hot center of himself, and our impulse when we get there is to look away and avert our eyes. - Robert Olen Butler
Love is a hot shower where your skin never prunes. - John Mayer
Someone smashed a flutterfler and without even thinking she touched her Stone and used Wyrd to piece its broken body back together. She filled its empty vessels with dreams and it became the stuff it used for blood. It brushed her cheek with its wings, then flew off -- dancing in the hot air. - Robert Fanney
Nerd girls are the world’s most underutilized romantic resource. And guys, do not tell me that nerd girls are not hot because that shows a Paris Hilton-esque failure to understand hotness. - John Green
An emotionally abusive relationship, in very simplistic terms, is much like standing up in a too hot bath and sinking back in so as not to feel so dizzy. - Jackie Haze, Borderless
Is the chemical aftertaste the reason why people eat hot dogs, or is it some kind of bonus? - Neil Gaiman
To be allowed, no, invited into the private lives of strangers, and to share their joys and fears, was a chance to exchange the Southern bitter wormwood for a cup of mead with Beowulf or a hot cup of tea and milk with Oliver Twist. - Maya Angelou
You know you're a hot mess when the only person buying you drinks all night is yourself. - Chelsea Handler
We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it and stop there lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove lid again and that is well but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore. - Mark Twain
A woman is like a tea bag- you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water. - Eleanor Roosevelt
We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure. - John Dryden
If you choose to walk through the fire, why do you complain it's hot? - Anthony Liccione
Deadlines help me, but my muse hates them. My muse functions in fits and starts, and tends to take very long vacations. Deadlines are like a hot poker to his ass. They force us both to sit down and write, which is what it takes to do this. - Alistair Cross
Am I tough? Am I strong? Am I hard-core? Absolutely. Did I whimper with pathetic delight when I sank my teeth into my hot fried-chicken sandwich? You betcha. - James Patterson
If heaven was hot and hell was chilly, tell me, why would you go to heaven? - Michael Bassey Johnson
This was a little house, with a ceiling that kept getting higher and higher, a hot place with no windows. This was anger. - Helen Oyeyemi
The meal is hot, but still delicious.Life is hard, but still beautiful. - Yohann Dafeu
Sometimes Füsun yawned so beautifully that I would think that she had forgotten the entire world and that she was drawing from the depths of her soul a more peaceful life, as one might draw cold water from a well on a hot summer day. - Orhan Pamuk
I’m forever near a stereo saying, ‘What the fuck is this garbage?’ And the answer is always the Red Hot Chili Peppers. - Nick Cave
I don't understand women at all. Like how a women can pour boiling hot wax onto their upper thigh, then rip the hair out by the root... and still be afraid of a spider. - Jerry Seinfeld
It is a wonderful morning with the sun shining bright and flowers smiling. There is a sweet breeze kissing my face while a hot cup of coffee warms my heart and awakens my mind. The primordial songs of ocean waves are soothing my soul. I am not on earth; I am in heaven on earth. - Debasish Mridha
In the summer, we create memories of hot adventures so that those memories can warm-up the deep frozen winter. - Debasish Mridha
. . . I'm not pretty, not close up anyway. Generally, the closer people get to me the less hot they find me. - Margo Roth Spiegelman
Part of what psychedelics do is they decondition you from cultural values. This is what makes it such a political hot potato. Since all culture is a kind of con game, the most dangerous candy you can hand out is one which causes people to start questioning the rules of the game. - Terence McKenna
Being with you is like standing next to the sun. It's so hot you die if you don't move. - Mo
[...] I know how to inflame a cunt. I shoot hot bolts into you, Tania. I make your ovaries incandescent. - Henry Miller
Sitting on the hot seat of change requires much courage, patience, and persistence. - David W. Earle
This is no time for drinking a mug of water - which you would do nowhere else in the world. A mug of water! You just don't drink water from mugs, do ya? Except on the telly. Water out of a mug! Should be a hot drink... mug of water. - Russell Brand
If the weather is summer in your mind, even the coldest winter will be hot for you! If the weather is winter in your mind, even the hottest summer will be cold for you! - Mehmet Murat ildan
and while he did all the actual dancing, I remember whirling around and around the porch those hot summer days so long ago and never wanting to stop. - Julie Reece Deaver
There's no point in fighting for a woman that is rude and boring, just because she's hot. Such woman shortens your lifespan. - Daniel Marques
Saturday 12 July 1823 [Halifax]Could not sleep last night. Dozing, hot & disturbed ... a violent longing for a female companion came over me. Never remember feeling it so painfully before ... It was absolute pain to me. - Anne Lister
A woman is like a teabag, you never know how strong she is until you put her in hot water. - Mae West
Loving someone isn’t a hard task, it’s not a chore, you don’t wake up one day and decide to break their heart because you got all hot and bothered, that doesn’t happen! he boomed. - Holly Hood
Deep is a wounded heart, and strong A voice that cries against a mighty wrong; And full of death as a hot wind's blight, Doth the ire of a crushed affection light. - Felicia Hermans
I am sad, like the hot dust on the streetsAnd the music of fresh fallen leavesCaught in a sliding summer breeze. - Scott Hastie
Bed rest and a large steaming mug of hot chocolate. I always find that cheers me up. - J.K. Rowling
His lies flowed eloquently like honey flowing from a hot spoon - Charmaine J. Forde
Do you believe in an afterlife?" the gunslinger asked him as Brown dropped three ears of hot corn onto his plate.Brown nodded. "I think this is it. - Stephen King
Summer was full on and the nights hot. It was like lying in warm syrup there in the dark under the viaduct, in the steady whine of gnats and nightbugs - Cormac McCarthy
You don't talk dirty to make him hot. You "talk dirty" to communicate what you need. And most guys, if you go, "Yeah, yeah, just like that, a little more to the left," they'll do it. - Nina Hartley
We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it--and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit on a hot stove lid again--and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore. - Mark Twain
Two hot, close rooms thus became my world; and a crippled old woman, my mistress, my friend, my all. Her service was my duty - her pain, my suffering - her relief, my hope - her anger, my punishment - her regard, my reward. - Charlotte Brontë
Between cold war and hot peace, our love got sterilized to death. - Natalya Vorobyova
[...] I've come to the conclusion that the artist can not justify life or come up with a cogent reason as to why life is meaningful, but the artist can provide you with a cold glass of water on a hot day. - Woody Allen
She knew the way of things. She knew ifyou weren't always stepping lightly as a bird the wholeworld came apart to crush you. Like a house of cards.Like a bottle against stones. Like a wrist pinned hardbeneath a hand with the hot breath smell of want andwine. . . . - Patrick Rothfuss
I realize that they giggle and I actually laugh, that they show their cleavage and I have none to show, but just so you know, I am also a girl. I'm one of the three wise MEN. And it's gay to think that James Bond is hot. - John Green
I can't think of any sorrow in the world that a hot bath wouldn't help, just a little bit. - Susan Glaspell
Your life should always come with hot fudge, whipped cream, and a cherry on top. - A.D. Posey
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned. - Buddha
Holding onto anger is like grasping onto a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else. You are the one who gets burned. - Buddha
I am with the Hot Sexy Banking Corporation. As all the other banks are going bust, they are just getting bustier. - Robert Clark
May the music rock and the guys be hot - Brenda Pandos
It's red hot, mate. I hate to think of this sort of book getting in the wrong hands. As soon as I've finished this, I shall recommend they ban it. - Tony Hancock
Ugh. You’re being . . . you.Was that in English?This is all your fault.Nope. Definitely not English.You’re being all hot and sexy, dammit, she said. She banged her head on his chest a few times. And I can’t seem to . . . not notice said hotness and sexiness. - Jill Shalvis
A big lemoncolored cat watched him from the top of a woodstove. He turned his head to see it better and it elongated itself like hot taffy down the side of the stove and vanished headfirst in the earth without a sound. - Cormac McCarthy
Love is not a receiving material, It's a giving material. Like a pen;giving poems, Like a sun and moon;giving hot and cool, Like a person like you;giving love to your love! - AR Bharaty
I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean. - G. K. Chesterton
Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable. - Henry Ward Beecher
What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance. - Jane Austen
Cold is hot, if you love it; hot is cold, if you hate it! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Honestly speaking honesty can sometimes land you in hot waters - Bangambiki Habyarimana
I am the gatekeeper of my own destiny and I will have my glory days in the hot sun - Nacho LIbre
Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable. - Bruce Lee
Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep burning, unquenchable. - Henry Ward Beecher
Women are like teabags. You dont know how strong they are until you put them in hot water. - Eleanor Roosevelt
Life was not to be sitting in hot amorphic leisure in my backyard idly writing or not writing, as the spirit moved me. It was, instead, running madly, in a crowded schedule, in a squirrel cage of busy people. Working, living, dancing, dreaming, talking, kissing- singing, laughing, learning. - Sylvia Plath
Sometimes being hotheaded and doing it your own way and walking out on all the hot shit might be the right thing to do. - Porochista Khakpour
Asking a parent not to be a parent is like asking the sun not to be hot or snow not to be cold. - Lesa Howard
No one wants to die or even plans to die, at least not when you are young and living life on top of everything, stepping on gold, running the miles with hot chicks on tow, but even if I wasn’t a rock star, and just a normal civilian, I still wouldn’t plan to die young. Death is so boring. - Sofea Shah
always serve too much hot fudge sause on the hot fudge sundaes.It makes people overjoyed,and puts them in your debt - Judith Olney
Don’t ever write a novel unless it hurts like a hot turd coming out - Charles Bukowski
Most people who spend their lives are dreaming of having a summer house somewhere in the suburb of their city where they could lie in the hot sun all day long, drinking coffee and juice. They think they are enjoying life, but really they are spending life. - Sunday Adelaja
LIBERTY, n. One of Imagination's most precious possessions. The rising People, hot and out of breath, Roared around the palace: "Liberty or death!" "If death will do," the King said, "let me reign; You'll have, I'm sure, no reason to complain." Martha Braymance - Ambrose Bierce
fear of change is like standing under a hot shower and knowing the moment you'll turn it off you'll be freezing cold - Erik Tanghe
I heard ‘naked’ and ‘full of hot air.’ I try not to let that be my first impression of anyone. - Kathy Bryson, Fighting Mad
If any of the socialist chiefs had tried to earn his living by selling hot dogs, he would have learned something about the sovereignty of the consumers. - Ludwig von Mises
And like tea dissolving in hot water, the sun dissolved in the sky… creating a velvet horizon, announcing for the stars’ night dance with the moon, the awaited joy for the wounded souls. -- From Bali The Rebirth - Abeer Allan
CALIFORNIA: From Latin 'calor', meaning "heat" (as in English 'calorie' or Spanish 'caliente'); and 'fornia', for "sexual intercourse" or "fornication." Hence: Tierra de California, "the land of hot sex."
A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows. - O. Henry
A tie is what you get after ice cubes have wrestled with hot water. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Soroya:Where are we going? I need to know what to wear.Graham: Wear whatever you’re wearing right now.I looked down. Soraya: A hot pink lace bra and G-string? Where are you taking me, a strip club? - vi kieland penelope ward
Maybe they want us to feel uneasy. Maybe they think we’ll make a mistake if they’re constantly breathing down our necks.’ I shivered violently, as if I really could feel the hot, hungry breath of evil intentions panting just behind me. - Rosie Pugh
Trace was just one of those guys who caught your attention no matter if you had a ring on your finger. He would be hot 'til the day he died. Seriously. - Chelsea Lynn Charters The Gossip Web
Something of God... flows into us from the blue of the sky, the taste of honey, the delicious embrace of water whether cold or hot, and even from sleep itself. - C.S. Lewis
Bella,leave the aggressive stuff to me." My heart quirks in my chest. I may not like this guy but that sounded so hot. "Um..." Focus,focus. "What? - Jenny B. Jones
Friendship" is just a hot person's way of making you their slave. - Burgerpants
...red sings like summer in the shadows, hot on my tongue... - Nell Grey
You don't know if the water is hot or cold until you stick your toe in. - Virginia DeBerry and Donna Grant
Always serve too much hot fudge sauce on hot fudge sundaes.It makes people overjoyed, and puts them in your debt. - Judith Olney
Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot. - D. H. Lawrence
When tired, when bored, when happy, when unhappy, when night, when day, when cold, when hot, when nervous, when relaxed you always need music to fly into another dimension, the Dimension of Mindlessness! - Mehmet Murat ildan
If you go through the hot furnace of hardships, you will be refined like gold. - Lailah Gifty Akita
There must be quite a few things a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them. - Sylvia Plath
When you're hot, you're hot; when you're not, you're not. - Flip Wilson
Happiness is a hot bath on a Sunday afternoon. - A.D. Posey
Read everything. Read fiction and non-fiction, read hot best sellers and the classics you never got around to in college. - Jennifer Weiner
We are having hot lesbian sex... and by sex we mean tea but it's still hot. - ananymous
It's just not as hot without biting, scratching, and spanking, involved. - Jennifer Salaiz
But that's the thing, how you feel about the place that's home. About its sky, its air, its smell, the color of the light, the way the rain falls (or doesn't), whether it hot or cold. - Laura McBride
If a cat sits on a hot stove, that cat won't sit on a hot stove again. That cat won't sit on a cold stove either. That cat just don't like stoves. - Mark Twain
People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold.
Her two outstanding characteristics were self-confidence and candor. The latter sometimes got her into hot water Durrance later told Charlotte, but the former kept it from scalding her. - Olive Higgins Prouty
Poetry is not the most important thing in life... I'd much rather lie in a hot bath reading Agatha Christie and sucking sweets. - Dylan Thomas
Real love, true love is not like the shooting star that makes you go, "ooh, aah". Real, true love is like the constancy of the sun that comes up slowly every morning - sometimes too hot; sometimes hidden behind the clouds, but always there. Therefore, often take for granted. - Lucille Anderson
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