WORLD in Classic Quotes

1  Or talking about how strange the world is.

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

2  I saw the damnedest snake in the world the other night.

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

3  The world must reproduce, you know, the race must go on.

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

4  But then the world got full of eyes and elbows and mouths.

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

5  Montag was in the dark street again, looking at the world.

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

6  In the late afternoon it rained and the entire world was dark gray.

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

7  Don't let the torrent of melancholy and drear philosophy drown our world.

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

8  And as many times he came out of the house and Clarisse was there somewhere in the world.

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

9  He didn't know what there was about the afternoon, but it was not seeing her somewhere in the world.

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

10  It was a look, almost, of pale surprise; the dark eyes were so fixed to the world that no move escaped them.

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

11  Most of us can't rush around, talk to everyone, know all the cities of the world, we haven't time, money or that many friends.

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

12  Oh, there are many actors alone who haven't acted Pirandello or Shaw or Shakespeare for years because their plays are too aware of the world.

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

13  The things you're looking for, Montag, are in the world, but the only way the average chap will ever see ninety-nine percent of them is in a book.

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

14  Complete darkness, not a hint of the silver world outside, the windows tightly shut, the chamber a tomb-world where no sound from the great city could penetrate.

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

15  Two moonstones looked up at him in the light of his small hand-held fire; two pale moonstones buried in a creek of clear water over which the life of the world ran, not touching them.

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

16  The old man admitted to being a retired English professor who had been thrown out upon the world forty years ago when the last liberal arts college shut for lack of students and patronage.

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

17  With the brass nozzle in his fists, with this great python spitting its venomous kerosene upon the world, the blood pounded in his head, and his hands were the hands of some amazing conductor playing all the symphonies of blazing and burning to bring down the tatters and charcoal ruins of history.

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