WIND in Classic Quotes

1  Figured you'd wind up south along the river.

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

2  Suddenly the trees might blow under a great wind of helicopters.

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

3  Outside the house, a shadow moved, an autumn wind rose up and faded away.

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

4  But there was only the normal autumn wind high up, going by like another river.

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

5  Beatty, smelling of the wind through which he had rushed, was at Montag's elbow.

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

6  You ask Why to a lot of things and you wind up very unhappy indeed, if you keep at it.

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

7  While the books went up in sparkling whirls and blew away on a wind turned dark with burning.

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

8  He was crushed by darkness and the look of the country and the million odors on a wind that iced his body.

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

9  But in his mind, a cool wind started up and blew out the ventilator grill at home, softly, chilling his face.

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

10  The Hound was on its way, followed by hovering helicopter cameras, silently, silently, sniffing the great night wind.

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

11  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

12  Before he reached the corner, however, he slowed as if a wind had sprung up from nowhere, as if someone had called his name.

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

13  He could feel the Hound, like autumn, come cold and dry and swift, like a wind that didn't stir grass, that didn't jar windows or disturb leaf shadows on the white sidewalks as it passed.

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

14  The autumn leaves blew over the moonlit pavement in such a way as to make the girl who was moving there seem fixed to a sliding walk, letting the motion of the wind and the leaves carry her forward.

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

15  The concussion knocked the air across and down the river, turned the men over like dominoes in a line, blew the water in lifting sprays, and blew the dust and made the trees above them mourn with a great wind passing away south.

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

16  One day it was raining, the next it was clear, the day after that the wind blew strong, and the day after that it was mild and calm, and the day after that calm day was a day like the furnace of summer and Clarisse with her face all sunburnt by late afternoon.

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

17  Beatty never drove, but he was driving tonight, slamming the Salamander around corners, leaning forward high on the driver's throne, his massive black slicker flapping out behind so that he seemed a great black bat flying above the engine, over the brass numbers, taking the full wind.

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