WORK in Classic Quotes

1  She fetched a mop and worked on it.

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

2  "Let's get back to work," said Montag quietly.

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

3  Carried out on a national scale, it might have worked beautifully.

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

4  Life is immediate, the job counts, pleasure lies all about after work.

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

5  He was certain if he tried the same route, everything would work out fine.

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

6  He felt one hand and then the other work his coat free and let it slump to the floor.

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

7  So it looked as if it had to be Montag and the people he had worked with until a few short hours ago.

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

8  Outside, crossing the lawn, on his way to work, he tried not to see how completely dark and deserted Clarisse McClellan's house was.

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

9  We've got to start somewhere here, figuring out why we're in such a mess, you and the medicine nights, and the car, and me and my work.

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

10  Simmons here has worked on it for twenty years and now we've got the method down to where we can recall anything that's been read once.

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

11  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

12  He would be Montag-plus-Faber, fire plus water, and then, one day, after everything had mixed and simmered and worked away in silence, there would be neither fire nor water, but wine.

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

13  There was only the girl walking with him now, her face bright as snow in the moonlight, and he knew she was working his questions around, seeking the best answers she could possibly give.

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

14  He hobbled around the ruins, seizing at his bad leg when it lagged, talking and whimpering and shouting directions at it and cursing it and pleading with it to work for him now when it was vital.

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

15  After all the running and rushing and sweating it out and half drowning, to come this far, work this hard, and think yourself safe and sigh with relief and come out on the land at last only to find.

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

16  He was in someone else's house, like those other jokes people told of the gentleman, drunk, coming home late late at night, unlocking the wrong door, entering a wrong room, and bedding with a stranger and getting up early and going to work and neither of them the wiser.

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

17  Then he stood in the cold night air, waiting, and at a distance he heard the fire sirens start up and run, and the Salamanders coming, coming to burn Mr. Black's house while he was away at work, to make his wife stand shivering in the morning air while the roof let go and dropped in upon the fire, But now, she was still asleep.

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