TAKE in Classic Quotes

1  Strangers come and take your blood.

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

2  If we have to burn, let's take a few more with us.

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

3  A man had to take a long time to put them down on paper.

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

4  It'll take time, but I'll do it, or Faber will do it for me.

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

5  They scrambled it just enough to let the imagination take over.

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

6  He had never thought in his life that it could give as well as take.

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

7  That's all for me, you thought, that's all taking place just for me, by God.

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

8  "It can wait exactly forty seconds while I take all the money away from you," said Beatty, happily.

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

9  "Listen," said Granger, taking his arm, and walking with him, holding aside the bushes to let him pass.

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

10  Even now he could feel the start of the long journey, the leave taking, the going away from the self he had been.

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

11  Right now she was pulling at his shoulder to try to get him to move so she could take the pillow out and fix it nicely and put it back.

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

12  It doesn't matter what you do, he said, so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away.

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

13  Probably not a hundred, but figure for that anyway, figure that with him going very slowly, at a nice stroll, it might take as much as thirty seconds, forty seconds to walk all that way.

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

14  Any man who can take a TV wall apart and put it back together again, and most men can, nowadays, is happier than any man who tries to slide rule, measure, and equate the universe, which just won't be measured or equated without making man feel bestial and lonely.

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

15  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

16  Montag caught it with a bloom of fire, a single wondrous blossom that curled in petals of yellow and blue and orange about the metal dog, clad it in a new covering as it slammed into Montag and threw him ten feet back against the bole of a tree, taking the flame gun with him.

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

17  Beatty never drove, but he was driving tonight, slamming the Salamander around corners, leaning forward high on the driver's throne, his massive black slicker flapping out behind so that he seemed a great black bat flying above the engine, over the brass numbers, taking the full wind.

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