Fahrenheit 451

"Stuff your eyes with wonder, he said, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds."

"If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn."

"The sun also rises."

"We think we're just staying alive."

"Establish a new rule: no singing voice allowed in the firehouse."

"Do you understand now why books are hated and feared?"

"With school turning out more runners, jumpers, dancers, slaves and acrobats than ever before."

"A book is a loaded gun in the house next door."

"It was not my books they were after, it was me."

"I don't think it would be pleasant to me to hear my own thoughts again."

"We are the miracle of consciousness, we are the product of ages."

"The sun rises early because he's busy. The sun also sets early for the same reason."

"You're not like the others. I've seen a few in fifty years. Despair. I can see it in your eyes."

"Books say: she did this because. Television says: she did this. Millions of people watching, not doing."

"We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered?"

"That's the good part of dying; when you've nothing to lose, you run any risk you want."

"The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her."

"We are living in a time when flowers are trying to live on flowers instead of growing them."

"The important thing for you to remember, Montag, is we're the Happiness Boys."

"There is no terror, Montag, in the bang and the whimper. There is only the silence in between."

"You haven't read in years."

"I just want someone to talk to."

"I'm a fireman. I work to keep firemen safe."

"Isn't it nice to think how the all-American culture is going to fight the world?"

"People are having fun."

"It's fun when everyone is shouting at once."

"You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them."

"Do you know why books such as this are so important? Because they have all the answers."

"There must be something in books, things we can't imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house."

"We have everything we need to be happy but we aren't happy. Something is missing."