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• I call it... the hot dog tree, because... it's a hot dog tree.

  Paul Reubens

  Cute, Dog, Tree

  "Fictional character: Pee-wee". "Big Top Pee-wee", www.imdb.com. 1988.

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• What we really need is for me to get hot and stay hot. When I go, this team really takes off.

  Johnny Damon

  Teamwork, Team, Needs

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• You cannot make steel until you have made the iron white-hot in fire. It is not meant for harm. Trouble and disease have a lesson for us. Our painful experiences are not meant to destroy us, but to burn out our dross, to hurry us back Home. No one is more anxious for our release than God.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Home, Fire, Painful Experiences

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• Give me a platter of choice finnan haddie, freshly cooked in its bath of water and milk, add melted butter, a slice or two of hot toast, a pot of steaming Darjeeling tea, and you may tell the butler to dispense with the caviar, truffles and nightingales' tongues.

  Craig Claiborne

  Food, Two, Giving

  Craig Claiborne (1994). “Craig Claiborne's New York Times Food Encyclopedia”, Outlet

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• ... such speculation is like staring into the hot white sun. you know the sun is there but you can't see a thing.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  White, Sun, Staring

  Joyce Carol Oates (2006). “Missing Mom”

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• When moral superiority combines with billowing ignorance, they fill up a hot-air balloon that's awfully hard not to poke.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Ignorance, Air, Balloons

  Barbara Kingsolver (2010). “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating”, p.223, Faber & Faber

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• Lay down these words Before your mind like rocks. placed solid, by hands In choice of place, set Before the body of the mind in space and time: Solidity of bark, leaf, or wall riprap of things: Cobble of milky way. straying planets, These poems, people, lost ponies with Dragging saddles -- and rocky sure-foot trails. The worlds like an endless four-dimensional Game of Go. ants and pebbles In the thin loam, each rock a word a creek-washed stone Granite: ingrained with torment of fire and weight Crystal and sediment linked hot all change, in thoughts, As well as things.

  Gary Snyder

  Wall, Fire, Space

  Gary Snyder (1992). “No nature: new and selected poems”, Pantheon

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• I get the celebrity game now - you can go from being hot to fighting to be seen.

  Katharine McPhee

  Fighting, Games

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• Walking on rocks, hurts. Walking on glass, cuts. Walking on hot coals, burns. Walking on someones heart, kills.

  Francisco Garcia

  Hurt, Heart, Cutting

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• Life is a razor, you are always in hot water or a scrape.

  John Updike

  Life, Water, Razors

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• Men whose lives are doubtful want a strong government and a hot religion

  Elbert Hubbard

  Strong, Men, Doubt

  Elbert Hubbard (1922). “Selected Writings of Elbert Hubbard ...”

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• Alltami (n.) The ancient art of being able to balance the hot and cold shower taps.

  Douglas Adams

  Art, Hot And Cold, Balance

  Douglas Adams, John Lloyd (2013). “The Meaning of Liff: The Original Dictionary Of Things There Should Be Words For”, p.7, Pan Macmillan

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• It's not always so great to be objectified, but I don't feel I have much of a choice right now. I'm young in my career. I know I have to strike when the iron is hot.

  Jessica Alba

  Careers, Iron, Choices

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• A city's only ever three hot meals away from anarchy.

  Alastair Reynolds

  Cities, Meals, Three

  Alastair Reynolds (2010). “Terminal World”, p.264, Hachette UK

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• You are a child if you thought I didn’t know, for all your smothering yourself under that hot lap robe. Of course, I knew. Why else do you think I’ve been—” He stopped suddenly and a silence fell between them. He picked up the reins and clucked to the horse.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Horse, Children, Thinking

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.440, Hamilton Books

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• It only takes one mistake,' the Dan Banyan guy says, 'and nothing else you ever do will matter.' With his empty hand, he takes one of my hands. His fingers feel hot, fever-hot, and pounding with his heartbeats. He turns my hand palm-up saying, 'No matter how hard you work or how smart you become, you'll always be known for that one poor choice.' He sets the blue pill on my palm, saying, 'Do that one wrong thing- and you'll be dead for the rest of your life.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Mistake, Smart, Blue

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• Mercy," said my mother thoughtfully, "you never told me your werewolf neighbor was quite that hot.

  Patricia Briggs

  Mother, Mercy, Neighbor

  Patricia Briggs (2009). “Bone Crossed”, p.30, Penguin

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• He wanted to work in Hot Woman Valhalla until he died of testosterone poisoning. (Nick)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Valhalla, Wanted, Testosterone

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2016). “Chronicles of Nick”, p.78, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Where you think I’m goan?’ ‘Well,’ Eddie said, ‘what was behind Door Number One wasn’t so hot, and what was behind Door Number Two was even worse, so now, instead of quitting like sane people, we’re going to go right on ahead and check out Door Number Three. The way things have been going, I think it’s likely to be something like Godzilla or Ghidra the Three-Headed Monster, but I’m an optimist. I’m still hoping for the stainless steel cookware.

  Stephen King

  Thinking, Numbers, Doors

  Stephen King (2016). “The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three”, p.290, Simon and Schuster

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• The tears that kept Buttercup company the remainder of the day were not at all like those that had blinded her into the tree trunk. Those were noisy and hot; they pulsed. These were silent and steady and all they did was remind her that she wasn’t good enough. She was seventeen, and every male she’d ever known had crumbled at her feet and it meant nothing. The one time it really mattered, she wasn’t good enough.

  William Goldman

  Feet, Tree, Tears

  William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride: An Illustrated Edition of S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure”, p.57, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Walt Whitman is HOT! I mean, that guy could sound his barbaric yawps over the roofs of my world any time.

  John Green

  Mean, Guy, Sound

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• Oh, by the way, is this your armor? (Grace) It is, or was. (Julian) Can we keep it? (Grace) If you like. Why? (Julian) ’Cause, ooo baby, you are one hot tamale in that getup. This outfit alone will get you laid at least four or five times a day. (Grace)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Baby, Grace, Armor

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• Ole Golly: The time has come, the walrus said... Harriet M. Welsch: To talk of many things... Ole Golly: Of shoes and ships and ceiling wax... Harriet M. Welsch: Of cabbages and kings... Ole Golly: And why the sea is boiling hot... Harriet M. Welsch: And whether pigs have wings!

  Louise Fitzhugh

  Kings, Pigs, Sea

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• Today is the first of August. It is hot, steamy and wet. It is raining. I am tempted to write a poem. But I remember what it said on one rejection slip: 'After a heavy rainfall, poems titled 'Rain' pour in from across the nation.

  Sylvia Plath

  Rain, Writing, August

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.9, Anchor

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• (As she entered the main room, Syn turned around in his chair and almost fell out of it as he scanned her body. He cleared his throat and cut an appreciative look to Nykyrian.) Dayum…woman be hot. (Syn)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Cutting, Looks, Body

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2009). “Born of Night”, Macmillan

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