Quotes About Mechanical Hound In Fahrenheit 451

#1. It was like adults had their own little world that we weren't allowed to be a part of, and it didn't make sense because we were part of the world, too.

Susan Pogorzelski

#2. Now produce your explanation and pray make it improbable.

Oscar Wilde

#3. I can see no practical application of molecular biology to human affairs ... DNA is a tangled mass of linear molecules in which the informational content is quite inaccessible.

Frank Macfarlane Burnet

#4. Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture.

Erich Fromm

#5. The poet makes silk dresses out of worms.

Wallace Stevens

#6. Writing, I'm convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher.

Dan Simmons

#7. I'd like to get out of Philadelphia. I don't care for the people or their attitude, although they don't bother me or my play. But maybe the Phillies can get a couple of broken bats and shower shoes for me.

Richie Allen

#8. Old age is not a good thing. It can be really hard, and those of us who have it a little easier should keep in mind that there are hundreds of thousands of people who are not as well off.

Grace Paley

#9. Then human mind holds tight to those things it can't reconcile.

Beth Hoffman

#10. I've got such an envious heart;
It sloshes and aches
when you touch her face,
and I don't know what to do with it,
other than to just
let
it
break.

Hayley Stumbo

#11. Invariably, it is this for which I write: the joy ... of an argument firmly made, like a nail straightly driven, its head flush to the plank.

George Will

#12. We're only truly secure when we can look out our kitchen window and see our food growing and our friends working nearby.

Bill Mollison

#13. There are mystical, unbreakable bonds between all members of the natural world including humans and animals. Whether or not we remember or acknowledge this relatedness, it still exists.

Elizabeth Eiler