Scalding Quotes

#1. Yves did not like showers, he preferred long, scalding baths, with newspapers, cigarettes, and whiskey on a chair next to the bathtub, and with Eric nearby to talk to, to shampoo his hair, and to scrub his back.

James Baldwin

#2. His gaze lowered to her breasts, scalding her with the intensity of his stare. "At this moment, I'm exceedingly glad I'm no longer a monk.

Sandra Jones

#3. Mum's serial misbehavior over the years had driven me, despairing, to write her scolding - occasionally scalding letters.

Christopher Buckley

#4. I've come to think that there's an age beyond which it is impossible to lift a child from the pervading marinade of an original country, pat them down with a paper napkin and then deep-fry them in another country, another language like hot oil scalding the first language away.

Helen Oyeyemi

#5. To see certain things, you have to be lying on your back with tears in your eyes and a scalding potato in your mouth. It's possible, I think, that you have to be hurt to see anything at all.

Pete Dexter

#6. I don't know how the Wolfman knows all this, but he's not wrong. My warm cheeks turn scalding hot.
"Your shame is a good sign. You may break sooner than I thought. The breaking is good. It purifies.

Carolyn Lee Adams

#7. The belief that you have no choice but to keep suffering through whatever frightens you is like believing you have to hold onto a scalding cup so that you won't spill your coffee!

Guy Finley

#8. Like the wells and springs of their island, like Hiro's clouds, the fountains of their eyes were empty now, dry as the cracked soil. Or perhaps their tears flowed inward, scalding their young hearts.

Edward Stanton

#9. She had had the pain; it had been like being boiled alive in scalding oil and not being able to die to get free of it

Betty Smith

#10. There's hell, there's darkness, there is the sulphurous pit; burning, scalding, stench, consumption!

Nelson DeMille

#11. They figured out a way to control that hamburger disease. You dip the hamburger into the scalding hot coffee before eating.

David Letterman

#12. 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

#13. Chingachgook grasped the hand that, in the warmth of feeling, the scout had stretched across the fresh earth, and in that attitude of friendship these intrepid woodsmen bowed their heads together, while scalding tears fell to their feet, watering the grave of Uncas like drops of falling rain.

James Fenimore Cooper

#14. We lay down, and the pain let up.
We embraced, and the pain let go:
no more scalding regrets,
no scorching remorse
that oppressed the soul,
that weighted like a stone on the heart.
You, on top of me, heavy, immense,
and I, feeling so light.

Vera Pavlova

#15. Fear was the hand of the devil holding a scalding hot branding iron and touching your brain and your stomach and yelling at you to run with leaden feet.

Dan Groat

#16. Most people hew the battlements of life from compromise, erecting their impregnable keeps from judicious submissions, fabricating their philosophical drawbridges from emotional retractions and scalding marauders in the boiling oil of sour grapes.

Zelda Fitzgerald

#17. I slide down and sit on the shower floor and just let the scalding hot water run over me until I don't have any tears left.

Randi Cooley Wilson

#18. Oh, lighten up, Clark. I'm the one having scalding hot air directed at my genitals.

Jojo Moyes

#19. Despite his best efforts, a few scalding tears escaped Cobalt's eyes. He swiped them away. 'Can you stand?'
'I damn well can, if my alternative's you holding me like a wilting female.'

S.W. Vaughn

#20. It is an intern's job to go for coffee for anyone who asks, preferably delivering it scalding hot and cupped in your bare hands!

Kurt Braunohler

#21. No one could look at the beautiful young man now. They dropped their eyes from the scalding sight. From the eclipse. As all that love turned into hate.

Louise Penny

#22. The brew was military style "A" - freshly made and scalding, suitable for pouring down on peasants attacking the family castle.

Jeff Grubb

#23. My tongue is a scalding whiplash. I'm tired of hurting others with it, the way they have hurt me. I've always despised the practice, so once more I'll bite my words back, though the injustice served deserves each backlash of every one.

Jennifer Megan Varnadore

#24. Shells, gas clouds, and flotillas of tanks - shattering, corroding, death. Dysentery, influenza, typhus - scalding, choking, death. Trenches, hospitals, the common grave - there are no other possibilities.

Erich Maria Remarque

#25. I did some films in college, and I remember working with this director that wanted to shock me so that I'd give him an expression of shock, so he poured scalding hot water on my arm during the take. He splashed it on me. He got his expression of shock, but I also got, like, second-degree burns!

John Kapelos

#26. Don't let another man, tight wearing fairy or not, help you out of your clothes again," he said, his eyes narrowing just enough to know some scalding emotions were firing through him right now. "If you need help out of so much as a sock, you call me, you got it? That's my job.

Nicole Williams

#27. Oh invade me with your scalding mouth,
search me if you like, with your nocturnal eyes,
but allow me to sail and sleep upon your name.

Pablo Neruda

#28. She turned the water scalding hot and scrubbed her face until it hurt, but the eyes still looked wrong. She tore off her clothes and stepped into the shower; but it was not enough.
The dirt was on the inside.

John Hart

#29. Turns out, hell's not so much a burning, scalding pit of fire and misery. It's actually much, much worse than that. Hell is when the people you love the most reach right into your soul and rip it out of you. And they do it because they can.

Jess Rothenberg

#30. I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust.

Charles Baudelaire

#31. Political beliefs, religious beliefs, and conspiratorial beliefs seem impenetrable to facts that contradict them.

Robert Carroll

#32. Culture is not enough, even though nothing is enough without culture.

T. S. Eliot

#33. I hope I am remembered by my children as a good father.

Orson Scott Card

#34. We have to be active about kindness and about peace. I've always fantasized that it would be great if there was a Department of Peace.

Dave Matthews

#35. He had the time to hear, like a person who believed there was someone alive beneath the rubble of herself, who heard the soft sounds she could still make from the broken parts that had waited decades to be missed.

Anne Lamott

#36. God's Doorbell [10w]
Earth is God's doorbell,
unfortunately, half the time
nobody's home.

Beryl Dov

#37. What I did not understand, as I walked down Fifth Avenue that afternoon, was how a world that had seemed so dark could, in a few minutes, become so sweet.

John Cheever