PARLORS in Classic Quotes

1  The parlor roared in the hot air.

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

2  The parlor was exploding with sound.

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

3  The parlor was playing a dance tune.

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

4  He heard the "relatives" shouting in the parlor.

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

5  The fireworks died in the parlor behind Mildred.

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

6  The yammering voices stopped yelling in the parlor.

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 rarely watch the 'parlor walls' or go to races or Fun Parks.'

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

9  She went out of the room and did nothing to the parlor and came back.

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

10  His wife in the TV parlor paused long enough from reading her script to glance up.

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

11  The door to the parlor opened and Mildred stood there looking in at them, looking at Beatty and then at Montag.

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

12  Montag turned and looked at his wife, who sat in the middle of the parlor talking to an announcer, who in turn was talking to her.

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

13  He stared at the parlor that was dead and gray as the waters of an ocean that might teem with life if they switched on the electronic sun.

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

14  The parlor was dead and Mildred kept peering in at it with a blank expression as Montag paced the floor and came back and squatted down and read a page as many as ten times, aloud.

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

15  But with all my knowledge and skepticism, I have never been able to argue with a one-hundred-piece symphony orchestra, full color, three dimensions, and being in and part of those incredible parlors.

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

16  They sat in the hall because the parlor was so empty and gray-looking without its wall lit with orange and yellow confetti and skyrockets and women in gold-mesh dresses and men in black velvet pulling one-hundred-pound rabbits from silver hats.

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

17  He remembered a farm he had visited when he was very young, one of the rare few times he discovered that somewhere behind the seven veils of unreality, beyond the walls of parlors and beyond the tin moat of the city, cows chewed grass and pigs sat in warm ponds at noon and dogs barked after white sheep on a hill.

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