WALLS in Classic Quotes

1  I can't talk to my wife; she listens to the walls.

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

2  A great thunderstorm of sound gushed from the walls.

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

3  I can't talk to the walls because they're yelling at me.

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

4  As you see, my parlor is nothing but four plaster walls.

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

5  He and the white plaster walls inside were much the same.

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

6  I rarely watch the 'parlor walls' or go to races or Fun Parks.'

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

7  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

8  I've lived alone so many years, throwing images on walls with my imagination.

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

9  The three women fidgeted and looked nervously at the empty mud-colored walls.

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

10  The three empty walls of the room were like the pale brows of sleeping giants now, empty of dreams.

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

11  When it comes time for the missing lines, they all look at me out of the three walls and I say the lines.

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

12  He felt he was one of the creatures electronically inserted between the slots of the phono-color walls, speaking, but the speech not piercing the crystal barrier.

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

13  Empty the theaters save for clowns and furnish the rooms with glass walls and pretty colors running up and down the walls like confetti or blood or sherry or sauterne.

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

14  Behind her the walls of the room were flooded with green and yellow and orange fireworks sizzling and bursting to some music composed almost completely of trap drums, tom-toms, and cymbals.

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

15  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

16  Even though the people in the walls of the room had barely moved, and nothing had really been settled, you had the impression that someone had turned on a washing machine or sucked you up in a gigantic vacuum.

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

17  And if it was not the three walls soon to be four walls and the dream complete, then it was the open car and Mildred driving a hundred miles an hour across town, he shouting at her and she shouting back and both trying to hear what was said, but hearing only the scream of the car.

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