STOP in Classic Quotes

1  One of them had to stop burning.

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

2  "You can stop counting," she said.

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

3  He started to laugh again and stopped.

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

4  But now tonight, he slowed almost to a stop.

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

5  No wonder books stopped selling, the critics said.

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

6  The yammering voices stopped yelling in the parlor.

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

7  Mildred stopped screaming as quickly as she started.

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

8  He looked at the book under Montag's arm and could not stop.

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

9  She had stopped talking at the same time; a miraculous coincidence.

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

10  But it was late, and the arrival of his train put a stop to his plan.

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

11  Montag got up quickly, his heart pumping, and ran down the hall and stopped at the kitchen door.

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

12  A bomber fight had been moving east all the time they talked, and only now did the two men stop and listen, feeling the great jet sound tremble inside themselves.

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

13  He saw Faber stop up his own breath for fear of drawing that ghost into his own body, perhaps, being contaminated with the phantom exhalations and odors of a running man.

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

14  The girl stopped and looked as if she might pull back in surprise, but instead stood regarding Montag with eyes so dark and shining and alive, that he felt he had said something quite wonderful.

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

15  He looked in at the great black creature without eyes or light, without shape, with only a size that went a thousand miles, without wanting to stop, with its grass hills and forests that were waiting for him.

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

16  We know all the damn silly things we've done for a thousand years and as long as we know that and always have it around where we can see it, some day we'll stop making the goddam funeral pyres and jumping in the middle of them.

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

17  The room was blazing hot, he was all fire, he was all coldness; they sat in the middle of an empty desert with three chairs and him standing, swaying, and him waiting for Mrs. Phelps to stop straightening her dress hem and Mrs. Bowles to take her fingers away from her hair.

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