WAIT in Classic Quotes

1  If not, we'll just have to wait.

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

2  She was quite obviously waiting for him to go.

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

3  The unseen men across the table were sighing on their cards, waiting.

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

4  Montag felt the presence of someone beyond the door, waiting, listening.

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

5  Beatty stood near the drop hole waiting, but with his back turned as if he were not waiting.

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

6  We might start a few books, and wait on the war to break the pattern and give us the push we need.

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

7  "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

8  The war would have to wait for him to come to it in his personal file, an hour, two hours from now.

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

9  We'll pass the books on to our children, by word of mouth, and let our children wait, in turn, on the other people.

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

10  Montag felt himself turn and walk to the wall slot and drop the book in through the brass notch to the waiting flames.

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

11  Why, he thought, now that I think of it, she almost seemed to be waiting for me there, in the street, so damned late at night.

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

12  She shoved the valise in the waiting beetle, climbed in, and sat mumbling, "Poor family, poor family, oh everything gone, everything, everything gone now."

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

13  He took hold of a straight-backed chair and moved it slowly and steadily into the hall near the front door and climbed up on it and stood for a moment like a statue on a pedestal, his wife standing under him, waiting.

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

14  He almost thought he heard the motion of her hands as she walked, and the infinitely small sound now, the white stir of her face turning when she discovered she was a moment away from a man who stood in the middle of the pavement waiting.

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

15  Montag did not look back at his wife as he went trembling along the hall to the kitchen, where he stood a long time watching the rain hit the windows before he came back down the hall in the gray light, waiting for the tremble to subside.

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

16  The room was blazing hot, he was all fire, he was all coldness; they sat in the middle of an empty desert with three chairs and him standing, swaying, and him waiting for Mrs. Phelps to stop straightening her dress hem and Mrs. Bowles to take her fingers away from her hair.

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

17  But all the light had come from the campfire, and these men had seemed no different than any others who had run a long race, searched a long search, seen good things destroyed, and now, very late, were gathered to wait for the end of the party and the blowing out of the lamps.

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