Frances Beinecke Quotes

St. Louis is more humid. But after a while, the heat started taking a toll on us, so we started rotating a little more up front trying to stay fresh out here.

I grew up in northern California, where it was consistently in the hundreds in the summertime. My dad didn't think he should have to turn on the air conditioning when we had a swimming pool in our backyard; it was our built-in air conditioner.

In the Middle East in the summertime, to keep cool, a lot of people sleep on the rooftops.

If you saw a heat wave, would you wave back?

The extraordinary summer heatwave of 2003 in Europe resulted in over 35,000 extra deaths.

Generally, I find the hotter the temperature, the cooler I am.

I always wear the kind of stuff that makes you overheat and die.

It does get hot in England from time to time.

But it was only hot outside, and generally I only walked outside between one air-conditioned place to another.

Well, air-conditioning is not a good thing.

The heavy spacesuits are spectacular to look at but very hot. Putting one on was like going from chilly London winter weather to the Bahamas in just minutes.

I am heat obsessed. I crave the heat in my bedroom.

Being hot never hurts!

The weather in California is so much hotter than it is in England that it's absolutely changed my style. I have many more dresses and shorts than I ever thought I would coming from U.K.! It's so much easier to dress femininely in a warm climate.

Fans are essential in the California heat. The ones with movement keep the air flow active - I need that.

I suffer from overheating quite easily.

Too often, the air conditioners we use to cool down also contribute to climate change - the very force that's fueling extreme heat.

They're trying to put data centers in cold environments because they're actually generating so much heat now; they're using up so much electricity.

I have always had a certain aversion to heat. And for me, the name of the game on the stage is 'beat the heat.' It's always July under the lights.

I keep a very cold apartment - I tend to crank my AC just about as low as it can go. I sleep with a big, warm comforter, even during the summer, and just burrow underneath it.

Diseases are a threat to us all. And so is climate change.

It is very difficult for me to breathe when it's hot and humid.

We never had anybody who froze to death playing football. You probably had somebody who died from heat stroke playing football.

THTL— too hot to live

It got up to 94 degrees today – that's pretty good at my age.