BLOWING in Classic Quotes

1  The blowing of a single autumn leaf.

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

2  And the smell of blue electricity blowing under the locked door.

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

3  Beatty struck him a blow on the head that sent him reeling back.

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

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

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

5  The helicopters were closer, a great blowing of insects to a single light source.

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

6  Blow your nose on a person, wad them, flush them away, reach for another, blow, wad, flush.

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

7  Bang, you're ready to blow up the world, chop off heads, knock down women and children, destroy authority.

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

8  Millie was not here and the Hound was not here, but the dry smell of hay blowing from some distant field put Montag on the land.

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

9  It was like a faint drift of greenish luminescent smoke, the motion of a single huge October leaf blowing across the lawn and away.

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

10  She was only standing, weaving from side to side, her eyes fixed upon a nothingness in the wall, as if they had struck her a terrible blow upon the head.

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

11  Now, sucking all the night into his open mouth and blowing it out pale, with all the blackness left heavily inside himself, he set out in a steady jogging pace.

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

12  One, two, three, four, five, Clarisse, Mildred, uncle, fire, sleeping tablets, men, disposable tissue, coattails, blow, wad, flush, Clarisse, Mildred, uncle, fire, tablets, tissues, blow, wad, flush.

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

13  They walked in the warm-cool blowing night on the silvered pavement and there was the faintest breath of fresh apricots and strawberries in the air, and he looked around and realized this was quite impossible, so late in the year.

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

14  So it was now, in his own parlor, with these women twisting in their chairs under his gaze, lighting cigarettes, blowing smoke, touching their sun-fired hair and examining their blazing fingernails as if they had caught fire from his look.

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

15  Here was the single familiar thing, the magic charm he might need a little while, to touch, to feel beneath his feet, as he moved on into the bramble bushes and the lakes of smelling and feeling and touching, among the whispers and the blowing down of leaves.

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

16  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

17  The pains were spikes driven in the kneecap and then only darning needles and then only common ordinary safety pins, and after he had shagged along fifty more hops and jumps, filling his hand with slivers from the board fence, the prickling was like someone blowing a spray of scalding water on that leg.

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