TRYING in Classic Quotes

1  "I've tried to remember," said Montag.

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

2  I know, I've tried it; to hell with it.

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

3  I've tried to imagine," said Montag, "just how it would feel.

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

4  He held her and she tried to fight away from him, scratching.

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

5  He was certain if he tried the same route, everything would work out fine.

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

6  How like trying to put out fires with water pistols, how senseless and insane.

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

7  He tried not to look at her mouth, because then Beatty might turn and read what was there, too.

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

8  He tried to think about the vacuum upon which the nothingnesses had performed, but he could not.

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

9  Montag tried to see the men's faces, the old faces he remembered from the firelight, lined and tired.

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

10  They crashed the front door and grabbed at a woman, though she was not running; she was not trying to escape.

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

11  We are living in a time when flowers are trying to live on flowers, instead of growing on good rain and black loam.

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

12  Montag stood trying to make himself feel the shock of the quiet statement from the radio, but nothing would happen.

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

13  Outside, crossing the lawn, on his way to work, he tried not to see how completely dark and deserted Clarisse McClellan's house was.

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

14  It seemed like a boatless river frozen there in the raw light of the high white arc lamps; you could drown trying to cross it, he felt; it was too wide, it was too open.

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

15  He had just stood there, not really trying to save himself, just stood there, joking, needling, thought Montag, and the thought was enough to stifle his sobbing and let him pause for air.

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

16  He tried to piece it all together, to go back to the normal pattern of life a few short days ago before the sieve and the sand, Denham's Dentifrice, moth voices, fireflies, the alarms and excursions, too much for a few short days, too much, indeed, for a lifetime.

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

17  And if it was not the three walls soon to be four walls and the dream complete, then it was the open car and Mildred driving a hundred miles an hour across town, he shouting at her and she shouting back and both trying to hear what was said, but hearing only the scream of the car.

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