SECOND in Classic Quotes

1  Light the first page, light the second page.

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

2  The hands tore the flyleaf and then the first and then the second page.

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

3  Stuff your eyes with wonder,' he said, 'live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds.

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

4  "It can wait exactly forty seconds while I take all the money away from you," said Beatty, happily.

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

5  He saw her in her hotel room somewhere now in the half second remaining with the bombs a yard, a foot, an inch from her building.

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

6  Probably not a hundred, but figure for that anyway, figure that with him going very slowly, at a nice stroll, it might take as much as thirty seconds, forty seconds to walk all that way.

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

7  Three seconds later the game was done, the rat, cat, or chicken caught half across the areaway, gripped in gentling paws while a four-inch hollow steel needle plunged down from the proboscis of the Hound to inject massive jolts of morphine or procaine.

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