Humidity Quotes

• Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.

  Paul Valery

  Book, Animal, Fire

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• It was one of those humid days when the atmosphere gets confused. Sitting on the porch, you could feel it: the air wishing it was water.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Confused, Air, Water

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2003). “Middlesex”, p.388, A&C Black

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• The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.

  Larry Wall

  Light, Law, Temperature

  Usenet article, 1997.

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• The choking humidity makes amphibians of us all, in Bombay, breathing water in air; you learn to live with it, and you learn to like it, or you leave.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Air, Breathing, Water

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.8, Macmillan

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• I am filled with humidity.

  Gib Lewis

  Filled

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• I cannot tell you how grateful I am - I am filled with humidity.

  Gib Lewis

  Funny, Stupid, Grateful

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• Seventy per cent humidity is ideal for vocal cords.

  Bjork

  Cents, Vocal Cords, Ideals

  "Björk: what inspires me" by Rebecca Nicholson, www.theguardian.com. May 3, 2012.

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• Know how weather, especially humidity, can affect the movement of doors and windows.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Doors, Weather, Movement

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• I'm like a mosquito, I love humidity. I don't sweat.

  Shakira

  Sweat, Mosquitoes

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• My hair is so scary that if you saw it walking down the street, you'd cross to the other side. This humidity is not helping. It's just an excuse for my hair to let its frizz flag fly.

  Susane Colasanti

  Hair, Scary, Flags

  Susane Colasanti (2012). “Keep Holding On”, p.17, Penguin

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• Grief does not expire like a candle or the beacon on a lighthouse. It simply changes temperature. It becomes a kind of personal weather system. Snow settles in the liver. The bowels grow thick with humidity. Ice congeals in the stomach. Frost spiderwebs in the lungs. The heart fills with warm rain that turns to mist and evaporates through a colder artery.

  Adam Rapp

  Grief, Rain, Heart

  Adam Rapp (2002). “Nocturne: A Play”, p.79, Macmillan

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• My staff tells me not to say this, but I'm going to say it anyway. In the summer because of the heat and high humidity, you could literally smell the tourists coming into the Capitol. It may be descriptive but it's true.

  Harry Reid

  Summer, Smell, Tourists

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• It is not only by the pores of the skin that this aqueous emaciation takes place. A considerable quantity of humidity is also exhaled by the lungs at each expiration.

  Antoine Lavoisier

  Skins, Quantity, Lungs

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• Many diseases including malaria, dengue, meningitis - just a few examples - these are what we call climate-sensitive diseases, because such climate dimensions for rainfall, humidity and temperature would influence the epidemics, the outbreaks, either directly influencing the parasites or the mosquitoes that carry them.

  Margaret Chan

  Epidemics, Malaria, Mosquitoes

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• I've been to Indonesia, but I've never been to Thailand. I hear the people are lovely, the food is delicious, and that the heat and humidity are lethal.

  Ed Helms

  Heat And Humidity, People, Lovely

  "THE HANGOVER PART II On Set Interview with Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, Zach Galifianakis and Director Todd Phillips". Interview with Andre Dellamorte, collider.com. May 3, 2011.

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• It looks as though yields of over 10 times what we can currently grow per acre are feasible if you control the CO2 concentration, the humidity, the temperature, all the various factors that plants depend on to grow rapidly.

  Ralph Merkle

  Yield, Looks, Acres

  "Nanotechnology: Designs for the Future". Interview with John Gehl, ubiquity.acm.org. July 1 - July 31, 2000.

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• Our regular fitness programme means that the race lasting longer than others should not be a problem, but something you have to prepare for in Singapore is ensuring you always keep well-hydrated, as the heat and humidity can easily dehydrate you.

  Romain Grosjean

  Mean, Race, Heat And Humidity

  "Singapore GP: Romain Grosjean, Lotus - Q&A". Interview, www.crash.net. September 15, 2013.

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• Grief does not expire like a candle or the beacon on a lighthouse. It simply changes temperature.

  Anthony Rapp

  Grief, Doe, Temperature

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• I was raised in Mississippi, so heat and humidity is my bread and butter. It keeps me going. I can't stand cold weather.

  Morgan Freeman

  Heat And Humidity, Weather, Bread

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• Jews don't care about ancient rivalries. We worry about humidity in Miami.

  Evan Sayet

  Worry, Care, Miami

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• Sam Allardyce should learn a bit of humidity

  Johnny Giles

  Should, Bits

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• I remember many a time, going into someplace like Wrigley Field - where you could cut the humidity with a knife - and playing a doubleheader. I loved to play the game. It didn't matter if it was a doubleheader, or a single game, or a day game after a night game. I wanted to play.

  Gary Carter

  Cutting, Night, Knives

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• Camp life is demanding, and even the simplest daily routine becomes a chore in a climate with 90 per cent humidity, not to mention the bugs.

  Stefanie Powers

  Climate, Routine, Bugs

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• Louisiana has got a very specific warmth and humidity and richness of light.

  Christopher Heyerdahl

  Light, Louisiana, Richness

  "Christopher Heyerdahl gives inside information about Dieter Braun". Crave Online Interview, www.trueblood-online.com. June 19, 2012.

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• Black and white can show how something is. Color adds how it is, imbued with temperatures and humidities of experience.

  Peter Schjeldahl

  Black And White, Color, Add

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