QUIET in Classic Quotes

1  It was a strange quiet meeting.

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

2  Beatty arranged his cards quietly.

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

3  Montag fixed his eyes upon her, quietly.

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

4  "Let's get back to work," said Montag quietly.

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

5  "Four days ago," he said, quietly, lying there.

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

6  But slow now slow, quiet, don't turn, don't look, don't seem concerned.

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

7  The pole, reacting, slid upward, and took him through the ceiling, quietly.

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

8  That's sad," said Montag, quietly, "because all we put into it is hunting and finding and killing.

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

9  They read the long afternoon through, while the cold November rain fell from the sky upon the quiet house.

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

10  Montag stood trying to make himself feel the shock of the quiet statement from the radio, but nothing would happen.

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

11  On the front porch where she had come to weigh them quietly with her eyes, her quietness a condemnation, the woman stood motionless.

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

12  He hid the books in the kitchen and moved from the house again to the alley and looked back and the house was still dark and quiet, sleeping.

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

13  He felt she was walking in a circle about him, turning him end for end, shaking him quietly, and emptying his pockets, without once moving herself.

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

14  Laughter blew across the moon-colored lawn from the house of Clarisse and her father and mother and the uncle who smiled so quietly and so earnestly.

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

15  The air seemed charged with a special calm as if someone had waited there, quietly, and only a moment before he came, simply turned to a shadow and let him through.

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

16  Now, the dry smell of hay, the motion of the waters, made him think of sleeping in fresh hay in a lonely barn away from the loud highways, behind a quiet farmhouse, and under an ancient windmill that whirred like the sound of the passing years overhead.

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

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