OPEN in Classic Quotes

1  He turned and went out through the open door.

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

2  The open door looked at him with its great vacant eye.

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

3  Now the guild of the asbestos-weaver must open shop very soon.

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

4  bus this morning, to see a retired printer there, I'm getting out in the open myself, at last.

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

5  He touched the screen door in back, found it open, slipped in, moved across the porch, listening.

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

6  He did not wish to open the drapes and open the French windows, for he did not want the moon to come into the room.

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

7  In the dim, wavering light, a page hung open and it was like a snowy feather, the words delicately painted thereon.

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

8  Perhaps he could make the open country and live on or near the rivers and near the highways, in the fields and hills.

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

9  Behind him, the door to a bedroom stood open, and in that room a litter of machinery and steel tools were strewn upon a desktop.

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

10  So, with the feeling of a man who will die in the next hour for lack of air, he felt his way toward his open, separate, and therefore cold bed.

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

11  He tore the book open and flicked the pages and felt of them as if he were blind, he picked at the shape of the individual letters, not blinking.

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

12  Now, sucking all the night into his open mouth and blowing it out pale, with all the blackness left heavily inside himself, he set out in a steady jogging pace.

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

13  Police suggest entire population in the Elm Terrace area do as follows: Everyone in every house in every street open a front or rear door or look from the windows.

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

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  The dim light of one in the morning, the moonlight from the open sky framed through the great window, touched here and there on the brass and the copper and the steel of the faintly trembling beast.

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

16  Now as the vacuum-underground rushed him through the dead cellars of town, jolting him, he remembered the terrible logic of that sieve, and he looked down and saw that he was carrying the Bible open.

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

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