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Letter "T" » temperatures
«Hell must be isothermal; for otherwise the resident engineers and physical chemists (of which there must be some) could set up a heat engine to run a refrigerator to cool off a portion of their surroundings to any desired temperature»
Author: Henry Albert Ben
| About:
Hell
| Keywords:
chemist, chemists, cool, cool off, desired, engine, engineers, heat, heat engine, isothermal, portion, refrigerator, refrigerators, resident, residents, run off, set off, set up, surroundings, temperature, temperatures, The Engineer
«One does not allow the plumbers to decide the temperature, depth and timing of a bath.»
«The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.»
Author: Larry Wall
| About:
Law and lawyers,
University
| Keywords:
controlled, Harvard Law, humidity, nutrition, organism, pleases, temperature, temperatures
«A father's words are like a thermostat that sets the temperature in the house»
Author: Paul Lewis
| About:
Family
| Keywords:
In the House, sets, temperature, temperatures, thermostat
«The siren south is well enough, but New York, at the beginning of March, is a hoyden we would not care to miss-a drafty wench, her temperature up and down, full of bold promises and dust in the eye.»
Author: E. B. White
| About:
America and Americans,
Cities
| Keywords:
drafty, hoyden, siren, Sirens, South, temperature, temperatures, up and down, well enough, wench, wenches
«The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire»
Author: Hermann Hesse
(Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Nobility
| Keywords:
bourgeois, consuming, convenience, conveniences, deathly, prefers, temperature, temperatures
«Next to reasoning, the greatest handicap to the optimum development of Man lies in the fact that this planet is just barely habitable. Its minimum temperatures are too low, and its maximum temperatures too high. Its day is not long enough, and its night is too long. The disposition of its water and earth is distinctly unfortunate (the existence of the Mediterranean Sea in the place where we find it is perhaps the unhappiest accident in the whole firmament). These factors encourage depression, fear, war, and lack of vitality. They describe a planet, which is by no means perfectly devised for the nurturing or for the perpetuation of a higher intelligence.»
Author: James Thurber
(Writer)
| Keywords:
barely, by no means, devised, disposition, distinctly, firmament, Great Depression, habitable, high sea, high temperature, high water, maximum, minimum, not long, nurturing, optimum, perpetuation, planet Earth, temperatures, the Great Depression, unfortunate, unhappiest, vitality
«ABDICATION, n. An act whereby a sovereign attests his sense of the high temperature of the throne.Poor Isabella's Dead, whose abdication Set all tongues wagging in the Spanish nation. For that performance 'twere unfair to scold her: She wisely left a throne too hot to hold her. To History she'll be no royal riddle -- Merely a plain parched pea that jumped the griddle. --G.J.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
abdication, attested, attesting, attests, griddle, high temperature, Isabella, jumped, pea, riddle, scold, scolded, scolding, sovereign, Spanish, temperature, temperatures, unfair, wagging
«The body temperature is a necessary element required for survival. Heat is the essential characteristic of fire. »
«It doesn't make a difference what temperature a room is, it's always room temperature.»
Author: Stephen Wright
(Actor, Writer)
| Keywords:
difference, room, rooming, room temperature, temperature, temperatures
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