Torrid Zone Quotes

#1. I am one whose faith is, that love and friendship, with ardent natures, are like those trees of the torrid zone which yield fruit but once, and then die.

Edward John Trelawny

#2. The sphere of the attractive virtue which is in the moon extends as far as the earth, and entices up the waters; but as the moon flies rapidly across the zenith, and the waters cannot follow so quickly, a flow of the ocean is occasioned in the torrid zone towards the westward.

Johannes Kepler

#3. Lecturers should remember that the capacity of the mind to absorb is limited to what the seat can endure.

Evan Esar

#4. Maybe I trust you to be a man and handle the gray reality of truth better than all these kids who still think in black-and-white."

Commander Zeke Waters from The Only Way Out Is In

Lyn Gala

#5. It's really difficult to get good information, and there's a reason for that. They're not letting journalists in. Whenever something really bad is happening, we always are dealing with uncertain information. Certainly what is happening there is qualitatively different from what happening in Abyei.

Rebecca Hamilton

#6. I am very suspicious of the notion that somehow bin Laden was a media creation ... Bin Laden's actions made him into a big deal. Not the media.

Peter L. Bergen

#7. If you have nothing to hide, there is no reason not to be transparent.

Mohamed ElBaradei

#8. When we leave money in the hands of taxpayers, they buy things, they pay taxes, they grow government.

Ken Buck

#9. Sorghum is kind of unusual. It can go to very high heats, but it's not as productive in most environments as maize is.

Bill Gates