MOMENT in Classic Quotes

1  Faber was a gray moth asleep in his ear, for the moment.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 2: The Sieve and the Sand

2  Any moment they might hiss a long sputtering hiss and explode.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 2: The Sieve and the Sand

3  " 'We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed.'

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 2: The Sieve and the Sand

4  But Montag was gone and back in a moment with a book in his hand.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 2: The Sieve and the Sand

5  He had felt that a moment prior to his making the turn, someone had been there.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 1: The Hearth and the Salamander

6  Mildred sat a moment and then, seeing that Montag was still in the doorway, clapped her hands.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 2: The Sieve and the Sand

7  At any moment, Beatty might rise and walk about him, touching, exploring his guilt and self-consciousness.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 1: The Hearth and the Salamander

8  At the last moment, when disaster seemed positive, he pulled his hands from his pockets and broke his fall by grasping the golden pole.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 1: The Hearth and the Salamander

9  A child feigning illness, afraid to call because after a moment's discussion, the conversation would run so: "Yes, Captain, I feel better already."

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 1: The Hearth and the Salamander

10  They had sat in the green soft light without saying a word for a moment and then Montag talked about the weather and then the old man responded with a pale voice.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 2: The Sieve and the Sand

11  The air seemed charged with a special calm as if someone had waited there, quietly, and only a moment before he came, simply turned to a shadow and let him through.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 1: The Hearth and the Salamander

12  It was suspended for a moment in their gaze, as if to give the vast audience time to appreciate everything, the raw look of the victim's face, the empty street, the steel animal a bullet nosing the target.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 3: Burning Bright

13  He took hold of a straight-backed chair and moved it slowly and steadily into the hall near the front door and climbed up on it and stood for a moment like a statue on a pedestal, his wife standing under him, waiting.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 1: The Hearth and the Salamander

14  What incredible power of identification the girl had; she was like the eager watcher of a marionette show, anticipating each flicker of an eyelid, each gesture of his hand, each flick of a finger, the moment before it began.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 1: The Hearth and the Salamander

15  The people who had been sitting a moment before, tapping their feet to the rhythm of Denham's Dentifrice, Denham's Dandy Dental Detergent, Denham's Dentifrice Dentifrice Dentifrice, one two, one two three, one two, one two three.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 2: The Sieve and the Sand

16  He almost thought he heard the motion of her hands as she walked, and the infinitely small sound now, the white stir of her face turning when she discovered she was a moment away from a man who stood in the middle of the pavement waiting.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 1: The Hearth and the Salamander

17  He felt it scrabble and seize his leg and stab the needle in for a moment before the fire snapped the Hound up in the air, burst its metal bones at the joints, and blew out its interior in a single flushing of red color like a skyrocket fastened to the street.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 3: Burning Bright