Boiling Quotes

“I drank some boiling water because I wanted to whistle.”

“Savage and unpredictable, a woman, like the sea, takes what she wants and spits the remains back into the boiling cauldron of humanity ...”

“Tell me, what kind of functions does pain have when one is convicted to 100 whippings in Saudie Arabia? You claim pain has a function, I claim that's scientific rubbish. The only thing pain really does is cause an instant reaction that is not rational and usually quite erratic. The famous example of the hand in boiling water, for example. You say it proves pain has a function. But exactly because of the spasmic reaction lots and lots of people will drop the bowl with boiling water over their entire bodies causing serious burns. So what was the 'function' of this pain? Pain and fear cause confusion and trauma. If pain actually did have a rational function, chronic pain would not exist.”

“Sometimes I'll pick up the "heart of the jungle" fossil on my bookshelf, or pull out my old field notebooks from my desk drawer, warped by Amazonian rains and the river's steam, the scent of the jungle still on their pages. I do this to remind myself that fiction does not have a monopoly on the unbelievable.”

“Inspiration works well at boiling point.”

“As you heat the planet up, it's just like boiling a pot.”

“Kaku, the aamti is excellent. Did you put ghee in the daal when it was boiling?”

“Sometimes I fear those noisy words boiling in an unsettling cauldron.”

“A nuclear power reactor is just a fancy way of boiling water.”