FINGERS in Classic Quotes

1  We have our fingers in the dike.

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

2  His fingers smelled of licorice.

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

3  Beatty flicked his fingers to spark the kerosene.

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

4  I've got one finger on it now; that's a beginning.

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

5  She returned, singing, snapping her fingers softly.

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  Beatty glanced instantly at Montag's fingers and his eyes widened the faintest bit.

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

8  Montag stood fixing his raw eyes to the cold bright rail under his clenched fingers.

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

9  She opened the fingers of one hand slightly and in the palm of the hand was a single slender object.

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

10  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

11  His hand had done it all, his hand, with a brain of its own, with a conscience and a curiosity in each trembling finger, had turned thief.

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

12  The woman knelt among the books, touching the drenched leather and cardboard, reading the gilt titles with her fingers while her eyes accused Montag.

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

13  Across the extreme tip of his middle finger, he saw now as he lifted that hand, a faint sixteenth of an inch of black tread where the tire had touched in passing.

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

14  His fingers were like ferrets that had done some evil and now never rested, always stirred and picked and hid in pockets, moving from under Beatty's alcohol-flame stare.

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

15  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

16  The room was blazing hot, he was all fire, he was all coldness; they sat in the middle of an empty desert with three chairs and him standing, swaying, and him waiting for Mrs. Phelps to stop straightening her dress hem and Mrs. Bowles to take her fingers away from her hair.

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

17  They weren't at all certain that the things they carried in their heads might make every future dawn glow with a purer light, they were sure of nothing save that the books were on file behind their quiet eyes, the books were waiting, with their pages uncut, for the customers who might come by in later years, some with clean and some with dirty fingers.

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