BOOK in Classic Quotes

1  The hidden book was still there.

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

2  We let the fireman keep the book twenty-four hours.

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

3  They coated each book, they pumped rooms full of it.

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

4  Montag walked to the kitchen and threw the book down.

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

5  Even though our rule book claims it was founded earlier.

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

6  He balanced in space with the book in his sweating cold fingers.

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

7  Montag felt the hidden book pound like a heart against his chest.

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

8  At the last fire, a book of fairy tales, he'd glanced at a single line.

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

9  He stumbled toward the bed and shoved the book clumsily under the cold pillow.

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

10  A book lit, almost obediently, like a white pigeon, in his hands, wings fluttering.

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

11  Then, moaning, she ran forward, seized a book and ran toward the kitchen incinerator.

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

12  Montag's hand closed like a mouth, crushed the book with wild devotion, with an insanity of mindlessness to his chest.

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

13  Her fingers were tracing the book's outline and as the shape became familiar her face looked surprised and then stunned.

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

14  The people in this book, this play, this TV serial are not meant to represent any actual painters, cartographers, mechanics anywhere.

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

15  Classics cut to fit fifteen-minute radio shows, then cut again to fill a two-minute book column, winding up at last as a ten- or twelve-line dictionary resume.

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

16  Then he reached up and pulled back the grill of the air-conditioning system and reached far back inside to the right and moved still another sliding sheet of metal and took out a book.

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

17  Montag made sure the book was well hidden behind the pillow, climbed slowly back into bed, arranged the covers over his knees and across his chest, half-sitting, and after a while Mildred moved and went out of the room and Captain Beatty strolled in, his hands in his pockets.

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