If you go to Minnesota in January, you should know that it's gonna be cold. You don't panic when the thermometer falls below zero.
I guess my thermometer for my baseball fever is still a goose bump.
An instant-read thermometer is your best bet for making sure that meat and fish are cooked to the proper temperature.
The two things that are going to make you a better baker without even trying are a scale and a thermometer in your oven.
There are two different types of leader. A person can either be like a thermometer or a thermostat. A thermometer will tell you what the temperature is. A thermostat will not only tell you what the temperature is, but it'll move you to the temperature you need to get to.
We have had a very severe frost and deep snow this month. My thermometer was one day fourteen degrees and a half below the freezing point, within doors.
The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.
You've got to be a thermostat rather than a thermometer. A thermostat shapes the climate of opinion; a thermometer just reflects it.
There is a sense in which the United States ambassador speaks to the United States, as well as for the United States. I have always seen my role as a thermostat rather than a thermometer. So I'm going to be actively working... for my own concerns. I have always had people advise me on what to say, but never on what not to say.
I have invented the Thermometer style.