SHUT in Classic Quotes

1  They shut the machines up tight.

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

2  Consider the lilies of the field, shut up, shut up.

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

3  "Denham's Dentifrice; they toil not, neither do they spin," said Montag, eyes shut.

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

4  "Shut the 'relatives' up," said Beatty, looking around at everything except Montag and his wife.'

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

5  Montag shut his eyes, shouted, shouted, and fought to get his hands at his ears to clamp and to cut away the sound.

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

6  He came out of the washroom and shut the door carefully and walked into the darkness and at last stood again on the edge of the empty boulevard.

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

7  Complete darkness, not a hint of the silver world outside, the windows tightly shut, the chamber a tomb-world where no sound from the great city could penetrate.

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

8  Montag had only a glimpse, before Faber, seeing Montag's attention diverted, turned quickly and shut the bedroom door and stood holding the knob with a trembling hand.

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

9  The old man admitted to being a retired English professor who had been thrown out upon the world forty years ago when the last liberal arts college shut for lack of students and patronage.

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

10  Montag, lying there, eyes gritted shut with dust, a fine wet cement of dust in his now shut mouth, gasping and crying, now thought again, I remember, I remember, I remember something else.

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

11  How strange, strange, to want to die so much that you let a man walk around armed and then instead of shutting up and staying alive, you go on yelling at people and making fun of them until you get them mad, and then.

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

12  And then he shut up, for he remembered last week and the two white stones staring up at the ceiling and the pumpsnake with the probing eye and the two soap-faced men with the cigarettes moving in their mouths when they talked.

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