TALKING 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  The others would walk off and leave me talking.

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

3  Oh, just my mother and father and uncle sitting around, talking.

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

4  She had stopped talking at the same time; a miraculous coincidence.

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

5  No matter when he came in, the walls were always talking to Mildred.

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

6  Not if you start talking the sort of talk that might get me burnt for my trouble.

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

7  Montag heard the voices talking, talking, talking, giving, talking, weaving, reweaving their hypnotic web.

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

8  The men in the beetles were talking and the attendants were talking about the engines, the gas, the money owed.

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

9  He stood outside the talking house in the shadows, thinking he might even tap on their door and whisper, "Let me come in."

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

10  And, again, he saw himself in a green park talking to an old man, a very old man, and the wind from the park was cold, too.

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

11  And people sat there sometimes at night, talking when they wanted to talk, rocking, and not talking when they didn't want to talk.

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 searched his pockets, the money was there, and in his other pocket he found the usual Seashell upon which the city was talking to itself in the cold black morning.

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

14  He hobbled around the ruins, seizing at his bad leg when it lagged, talking and whimpering and shouting directions at it and cursing it and pleading with it to work for him now when it was vital.

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

15  But my uncle says that was merely rationalizing it; the real reason, hidden underneath, might be they didn't want people sitting like that, doing nothing, rocking, talking; that was the wrong kind of social life.

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

16  In the days to follow, and in the nights when there was no moon and in the nights when there was a very bright moon shining on the earth, the old man would go on with this talking and this talking, drop by drop, stone by stone, flake by flake.

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

17  She talked to him for what seemed a long while and she talked about this and she talked about that and it was only words, like the words he had heard once in a nursery at a friend's house, a two-year-old child building word patterns, talking jargon, making pretty sounds in the air.

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