LISTENING in Classic Quotes

1  Montag sat listening to the rain.

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

2  He hesitated, listening at the door.

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

3  I saw you tilt your head, listening.

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

4  Though she quite obviously was not listening.

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

5  Sometimes I sneak around and listen in subways.

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

6  He stood a long long time, listening to the warm crackle of the flames.

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

7  Montag felt the presence of someone beyond the door, waiting, listening.

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

8  Sometimes I ride the subway all day and look at them and listen to them.

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

9  "I'm tired of listening to this junk," said Mildred, turning from him to the announcer again.

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

10  He touched the screen door in back, found it open, slipped in, moved across the porch, listening.

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

11  Eventually, I could put out ears into all parts of the city, with various men, listening and evaluating.

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

12  The only way I could possibly listen to you would be if somehow the fireman structure itself could be burnt.

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

13  He lay in the high barn loft all night, listening to distant animals and insects and trees, the little motions and stirrings.

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

14  Then Faber moved and put out his hand and grabbed Montag and moved him in and sat him down and went back and stood in the door, listening.

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

15  I'm one of the innocents who could have spoken up and out when no one would listen to the 'guilty,' but I did not speak and thus became guilty myself.

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

16  There was a tiny dance of melody in the air, her Seashell was tamped in her ear again and she was listening to far people in far places, her eyes wide and staring at the fathoms of blackness above her in the ceiling.

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

17  It was good listening to the beetle hum, the sleepy mosquito buzz and delicate filigree murmur of the old man's voice at first scolding him and then consoling him in the late hour of night as he emerged from the steaming subway toward the firehouse world.

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