Great Opening Lines Quotes

#1. Most companies, 97 percent or more, put all their focus on clever advertising and clever taglines to get people to buy average or mediocre products. You need to back off and offer a really good product or service.

Brian Tracy

#2. From the opening lines, Sleeping with Schubert is a hilarious, whimsical romp through the looking glass of a great musical mystery. The writing snaps, crackles, and pops with humor as Bonnie Marson makes Schubert a sexy, happening kind of guy who gives new meaning to our dreaming the impossible.

Jonis Agee

#3. The Frenchman beside me had been dead since dawn. His scarred and shackled body swayed limply back and forth with every sweep of the great oar as we, his less fortunate bench-fellows, tugged and strained to keep time to the stroke.

Jeffery Farnol

#4. I know your secret.

Jennifer Estep

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

Rafael Sabatini

#6. It was a hot sticky night in Barcelona and all the good whores had the summer flu.

Dan Jenkins

#7. Growing up means curbing appetites, shifting from "me" to "we," understanding private choices have social consequences and public outcomes.

Jen Hatmaker

#8. The reason most people don't arrive at a destination is they never embark. They think of all the reasons why they can't do it, so they don't even try." "I

Jeff Wheeler

#9. Nothing has changed. You feel the same. Deny it. Deny you love me." "I don't love you." "You're lying.

Pepper Winters

#10. 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

#11. The small boys came early to the hanging.

Ken Follett

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

Kurt Vonnegut

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

Samuel Beckett

#14. You and I live to manifest the Glory of God.

LeCrae

#15. Things do tend to come around when the time is right though.

Subb-an

#16. We need God, not in order to understand the why, but in order to feel and sustain the ultimate wherefore, to give a meaning to the universe.

Miguel De Unamuno

#17. I never understood how much responsability came with love.

Rachel Hawthorne

#18. We were about to give up and call it a night when somebody threw the girl off the bridge.

John D. MacDonald

#19. There was something wonderful about a blank sheet of notepaper. The lines were there, just waiting to be filled, and the page could turn into anything from a grocery list to the opening of The Great American Novel. The possibilities were endless.

Joanne Fluke

#20. Life is about learning; when you stop learning, you die.

Tom Clancy

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

Peter Benchley