Great First Lines Quotes

#1. If I'd known how the week was going to turn out I would have sent it back first thing Monday and asked for a refund.

Susan Wittig Albert

#2. Who let the dogs in? ... This, we fear, is going to be the question. Who let the dogs in? Who let the dogs in? Who? Who?

Martin Amis

#3. I believe that when the body is strong, the mind thinks strong thoughts.

Henry Rollins

#4. Every seven-year-old deserves a superhero. That's just how it is.

Fredrik Backman

#5. He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.

Rafael Sabatini

#6. The ocean and I have many pebbles To find and wash off and roll into shape.

William Stafford

#7. Find something you're passionate about and you know, do something.

Lea Michele

#8. I know that I will never find my father in any other man who comes into my life, because it is a void in my life that can only be filled by him.

Halle Berry

#9. The great dividing line between books that are made to be read and books that are made to be bought is not the purely modern thing it seems. We can trace it, if we try, back to the first printing-presses ...

Agnes Repplier

#10. I don't care what the weather is, I will always wear my coats. I am always freezing, so it works out perfectly for me!

Kim Kardashian

#11. Oh, I suppose my wife and I will open a bottle of champagne with another couple.

Paul Scofield

#12. To the as-yet-unborn, to all innocent wisps of undifferentiated nothingness: Watch out for life.

Kurt Vonnegut

#13. There was a man with the sun in the place of his head and a woman with the moon instead of a face.

Karen Maitland

#14. The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.

Samuel Beckett

#15. Nature eschews regular lines; she does not shape her lines by a common model. Not one of Eve's numerous progeny in all respects resembles her who first culled the flowers of Eden. To the infinite variety and picturesque inequality of nature we owe the great charm of her uncloying beauty.

John Greenleaf Whittier

#16. I remember my first commercial. This is really great 'Degrassi' trivia: The character Toby on 'Degrassi,' played by Jake Goldsbie, he and I were in both of our first commercial ever when we were four. It was for Tiger Toys, this old Game Boy-type thing. Both of our lines were, 'Mommy, I can do it!'

Charlotte Arnold

#17. You see that old woman? That will never happen to you. You will never grow old, and you will never die.
And it means something else too, doesn't it? I shall never ever grow up.

Anne Rice

#18. Methinks, mistress, you should have little reason for that: and yet, to say the truth, reason and love keep little company together now-a-days; the more the pity that some honest neighbours will not make them friends.

William Shakespeare

#19. For the first time in history, Congress has 100 women in it. Congratulations. Welcome to modern times, America. It's great having 100 women in Congress. Unless you're in line for the congressional bathroom.

Craig Ferguson

#20. The great fish moved silently through the night water.

Peter Benchley

#21. Every good laboratory consists of first rate men working in great harmony to insure the progress of science; but down at the end of the hall is an unsociable, wrong-headed fellow working on unprofitable lines, and in his hands lies the hope of discovery.

Ernest Rutherford