Thermometric Quotes

#1. By a peculiar thermometric adjustment, when a woman's talent is at zero, journalistic approbation is at the boiling pitch; when she attains mediocrity, it is already at no more than summer heat; and if ever she reaches excellence, critical enthusiasm drops to the freezing point.

George Eliot

#2. And I knew only what all men know, that the cycle of winter and spring and all growing things has within itself some sublime truth that restores without myth or language.

Anne Rice

#3. Oh, let what I am keep on existing and ceasing to exist,
and let my obedience align itself with such iron
conditions
that the quaking of deaths and of births doesn't shake
the deep place I want to reserve for myself eternally.

Mark Eisner

#4. These days, Countess, every cabbage has its pimp.

Jean Giradoux

#5. Anybody with any sense knows the whole solar system will go up like a celluloid collar by-and-by.

Kurt Vonnegut

#6. light makes shadow. Truth makes lies.

Brandon Sanderson

#7. But if Abram bore his continual wanderings patiently, our fastidiousness is utterly inexcusable, when we murmur against God, if he does not grant us a quiet nest.

John Calvin

#8. The more sincere I could be, the better it would be for the film.

Charlotte Gainsbourg

#9. You waste life when you waste good food.

Katherine Anne Porter