WORDS in Classic Quotes

1  Ladies, you won't understand a word.

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

2  Half the time I couldn't hear a word he said.

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

3  Montag felt the slow stir of words, the slow simmer.

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

4  He spoke the words haltingly and with a terrible self-consciousness.

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

5  "Silly words, silly words, silly awful hurting words," said Mrs. Bowles.

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

6  "I didn't say a single word about any war, I'll have you know," said Mrs. Phelps.

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

7  The people whose mouths had been faintly twitching the words Dentifrice Dentifrice Dentifrice.

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

8  In the dim, wavering light, a page hung open and it was like a snowy feather, the words delicately painted thereon.

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

9  We'll pass the books on to our children, by word of mouth, and let our children wait, in turn, on the other people.

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

10  Give the people contests they win by remembering the words to more popular songs or the names of state capitals or how much corn Iowa grew last year.

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

11  Faber held his hand over his left coat pocket and spoke these words gently, and Montag knew if he reached out, he might pull a book of poetry from the man's coat.

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

12  They had sat in the green soft light without saying a word for a moment and then Montag talked about the weather and then the old man responded with a pale voice.

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

13  He said it over to himself silently, lying flat to the trembling earth, he said the words of it many times and they were perfect without trying and there was no Denham's Dentifrice anywhere, it was just the Preacher by himself, standing there in his mind, looking at him.

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

14  She talked to him for what seemed a long while and she talked about this and she talked about that and it was only words, like the words he had heard once in a nursery at a friend's house, a two-year-old child building word patterns, talking jargon, making pretty sounds in the air.

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

15  She talked to him for what seemed a long while and she talked about this and she talked about that and it was only words, like the words he had heard once in a nursery at a friend's house, a two-year-old child building word patterns, talking jargon, making pretty sounds in the air.

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