THOUSAND in Classic Quotes

1  The doorknobs turned on five thousand doors.

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

2  "It's only two thousand dollars," she replied.

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

3  He felt the city turn to its thousands of doors.

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

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  And perhaps in a thousand years we might pick smaller cliffs to jump off.

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

6  And we are out here, and the city is there, all wrapped up in its own coat of a thousand colors.

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

7  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

8  Captain Beatty, keeping his dignity, backed slowly through the front door, his pink face burnt and shiny from a thousand fires and night excitements.

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

9  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

10  Twenty million Montags running, running like an ancient flickery Keystone Comedy, cops, robbers, chasers and the chased, hunters and hunted, he had seen it a thousand times.

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

11  The other men lay awhile, on the dawn edge of sleep, not yet ready to rise up and begin the day's obligations, its fires and foods, its thousand details of putting foot after foot and hand after hand.

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

12  They were like a monstrous crystal chandelier tinkling in a thousand chimes, he saw their Cheshire cat smiles burning through the walls of the house, and now they were screaming at each other above the din.

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

13  He looked in at the great black creature without eyes or light, without shape, with only a size that went a thousand miles, without wanting to stop, with its grass hills and forests that were waiting for him.

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

14  The bombardment was to all intents and purposes finished, once the jets had sighted their target, alerted their bombardier at five thousand miles an hour; as quick as the whisper of a scythe the war was finished.

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

15  We know all the damn silly things we've done for a thousand years and as long as we know that and always have it around where we can see it, some day we'll stop making the goddam funeral pyres and jumping in the middle of them.

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

16  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

17  He imagined thousands on thousands of faces peering into yards, into alleys, and into the sky, faces hid by curtains, pale, night-frightened faces, like gray animals peering from electric caves, faces with gray colorless eyes, gray tongues and gray thoughts looking out through the numb flesh of the face.

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