TEN in Classic Quotes

1  "I'm counting to ten," said Beatty.

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

2  We get these cases nine or ten a night.

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

3  I plunk the children in school nine days out of ten.

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

4  As long as everyone has ten thousand insurance everyone's happy.

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

5  Well, this is a play comes on the wall-to-wall circuit in ten minutes.

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

6  Last night I thought about all that kerosene I've used in the past ten years.

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

7  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

8  The only thing I positively knew was gone was the books I'd burned in ten or twelve years.

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

9  She was an expert at lip reading from ten years of apprenticeship at Seashell ear-thimbles.

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

10  There was a tremendous ripping sound as if two giant hands had torn ten thousand miles of black linen down the seam.

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

11  He ran steadily for six blocks in the alley and then the alley opened out onto a wide empty thoroughfare ten lanes wide.

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

12  Montag looked at these men whose faces were sunburnt by a thousand real and ten thousand imaginary fires, whose work flushed their cheeks and fevered their eyes.

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

13  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

14  Perhaps his nose detected a faint perfume, perhaps the skin on the backs of his hands, on his face, felt the temperature rise at this one spot where a person's standing might raise the immediate atmosphere ten degrees for an instant.

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

15  Look at the world out there, my God, my God, look at it out there, outside me, out there beyond my face and the only way to really touch it is to put it where it's finally me, where it's in the blood, where it pumps around a thousand times ten thousand a day.

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

16  Montag caught it with a bloom of fire, a single wondrous blossom that curled in petals of yellow and blue and orange about the metal dog, clad it in a new covering as it slammed into Montag and threw him ten feet back against the bole of a tree, taking the flame gun with him.

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

17  Perhaps the bombs were there, and the jets, ten miles, five miles, one mile up, for the merest instant, like grain thrown over the heavens by a great sowing hand, and the bombs drifting with dreadful swiftness, yet sudden slowness, down upon the morning city they had left behind.

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