Fabulous Opening Line Quotes

#1. Umpires sometimes have a quick trigger.

Joe Torre

#2. Vadier (on Danton): "We'll clean up the rest of them, and leave that great stuffed turbot till the end."
Danton (on Vadier): "Vadier? I'll eat his brains and use his skull to shit in.

Hilary Mantel

#3. Financial literacy is just as important in life as the other basics.

John W. Rogers Jr.

#4. To say that I met Nicholas Brisbane over my husband's dead body is not entirely accurate. Edward, it should be noted, was still twitching upon the floor.

Deanna Raybourn

#5. forgiving also applies to forgiving yourself.

Abi Ketner

#6. When left alone with her, I ignored her and kept my eyes on my book, though I confess I turned over more pages than I read.

Mary Street

#7. Obviously I've had this fascination with aristocracy my whole life. Like, the kings and queens of 500 years ago ... they're like rock stars. If there was a 'TMZ' 500 years ago, it would be about, like, Henry VIII and Marie Antoinette and all those people.

Lorde

#8. I think most men, heterosexual and homosexual, enjoy being considered sexual objects.

Thom Gunn

#9. That's the way blacks have been encouraged to think: that we got to stick together. You've got a situation today where if a black person says he thinks O.J. Simpson's guilty, other blacks will cut their eyes at him and say, 'You ought to go somewhere and sit down and shut up.'

J. C. Watts

#10. Masks camouflage the faces of both good and evil.
Keeps hidden what is a truth and what is a lie.

Patti Roberts

#11. If the Ocean had a face to glare into, I would have shot Her a vicious look.

Kiera Cass

#12. I want you to know that I would do it all again. I will choose you every time.

Lauren Kate

#13. Talking about my personal life onstage, I've realized I'm not one of those comics who can do that. I can allude to it but I don't want to be a confessional performer ...

David Rees