HOW in Classic Quotes

1  Or talking about how strange the world is.

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

2  God, how I want something to say to the Captain.

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

3  We know how to nip most of them in the bud, early.

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

4  Well, he thought, let's see how badly off you are.

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

5  She didn't want to know how a thing was done, but why.

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

6  They only need understanding, to know how the wheels run.

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

7  Lord, how they've changed it in our 'parlors' these days.'

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

8  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

9  Without turning on the light he imagined how this room would look.

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

10  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

11  The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.

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

12  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

13  Give the people contests they win by remembering the words to more popular songs or the names of state capitals or how much corn Iowa grew last year.

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

14  And then the Government, seeing how advantageous it was to have people reading only about passionate lips and the fist in the stomach, circled the situation with your fire-eaters.

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

15  Ladies, once a year, every fireman's allowed to bring one book home, from the old days, to show his family how silly it all was, how nervous that sort of thing can make you, how crazy.

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

16  The thought had been with him many times recently but now he remembered how it was that day in the city park when he had seen that old man in the black suit hide something, quickly, in his coat.

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

17  The way the clouds moved aside and came back, and the way the stars looked, a million of them swimming between the clouds, like the enemy disks, and the feeling that the sky might fall upon the city and turn it to chalk dust, and the moon go up in red fire; that was how the night felt.

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