Opening Line Quotes

#1. I think it is important to begin with a statement in your speech that grabs the attention of the audience. I try to make my opening line 15 words or less.

Charles R. Swindoll

#2. An opening line should invite the reader to begin the story. It should say: Listen. Come in here. You want to know about this.

Stephen King

#3. PARKER spent two weeks on the white sand beach at Biloxi, and on a white sandy bitch named Belle, ...
Beat that for a PC opening line ... not

Richard Stark

#4. The opening line from a journal can be the beginning of a song.

Judy Collins

#5. I woke up one morning with this song in my head, and the opening line of the song is, 'My name was Richard Nixon, only now I'm a girl.'

Bruce Cockburn

#6. How could an article about computers begin with such an idiotic opening line: Where is Slovenia?

Paulo Coelho

#7. I've always heard that women secretly want their father. So I used to walk around in a 1950s business suit, with a hat and a pipe. My opening line would be, 'You should be getting to bed now.'

Conan O'Brien

#8. Easy enough to fight when the monster kept its distance, easy enough to draw the line. But when the moster was literally outside the door, that's when your actions mattered. The hard choice wasn't opening the door. The hard choice was keeping it closed.

Carla Buckley

#9. Telling it all after the fact ... easier said than done! ... much easier!

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#10. I'm opening a store at the end of the month in the New York meatpacking district. I'm launching a line of bedding this summer, and I am writing a book that will be out next January.

Genevieve Gorder

#11. I swear to Vishnu, if this doesn't work, I'm going to stab you in the throat with a Pipette.

Kyoko M.

#12. I see a direct line between Kennedy and Richard Nixon and the opening to China and the detente with the Soviet Union.

Robert Dallek

#13. Charity in the theatre usually begins and ends with people who have a play opening the week following one's own. Their unlikely benevolence is not so much a purity of heart as the knowledge that they face a firing line with rifles aimed in exactly the same direction.

Moss Hart

#14. The stars sparkled above the mist shrouded tents and caravans of the carnival. The night crackled with an odd vibration, as if a veil of peculiarity settled over the company.

A.F. Stewart

#15. They shoot the white girl first.

Toni Morrison

#16. That you should not be here when something we've both wanted happens is no new thing for me. Today too, as always, you're not here.

Sachin Kundalkar

#17. The idea really came to me the day I got my new false teeth.

George Orwell

#18. Does the cosmos contain keys for opening my diving bell? A subway line with no terminus? A currency strong enough to buy my freedom back? We must keep looking.

Jean-Dominique Bauby

#19. I wonder if I can get pizza in Avalon.

Stacey O'Neale

#20. I looked past him, to the sea framed in the arched opening of the wall, to the line formed where the water met the sky. The world was not round, I realized. The world was a plate.
'Please,' he whispered. 'Don't.'
Unlike Rurick, Plesec did not die confused.

Rick Yancey

#21. Anyone who shows up for a midnight opening-night screening of the latest, shiniest geek flick must be a diehard nerd. I mean, you'd have to be a killer-huge fan to wait in line for hours for the newest Star Wars or Marvel Universe film, right?

Sam Maggs

#22. The terror, which would not end for another 28 years-if it ever did end-began, so far as I know or can tell, with a boat made from a sheet of newspaper floating down a gutter swollen with rain.

Stephen King

#23. To be born again," sang Gibreel Farishta tumbling from the heavens, "first you have to die.

Salman Rushdie

#24. First, I'll tell about the robbery our parents committed. Then about the murders, which happened later.

Richard Ford

#25. Neither of the Grimes sisters would have a happy life, and looking back it always seemed that the trouble began with their parents' divorce.

Richard Yates

#26. 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

#27. The realisation that, depending on where we changed from one note to the next in a melodic line, the music could subtly influence the entire meaning of a scene in so many ways was like a door opening to this amazing new world for me.

Steven Price

#28. On a pitch black, starless night, a solitary man was trudging along the main road from Marchiennes to Montsou, ten kilometres of cobblestones running straight as a die across the bare plain between fields of beet.

Emile Zola

#29. Frankly, just between you and me, I'm ending up even worse than I started ...

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#30. 'A Chorus Line' never dies; it just keeps opening doors and giving back to me - but there was a time when I considered it an albatross around my neck.

Donna McKechnie

#31. As for suspense, I like to write books that draw you into the hero's plight from the opening pages, where people put their lives on the line for something - a belief, a family member, the truth.

Andrew Gross

#32. Once upon a time, Isola Wilde was watching late-night television with her eldest brother, Alejandro, when Channel 12 broadcast a live suicide.

Allyse Near

#33. Randy stared into the glass he held in his hand, gazing into its cobra eyes. A double shot of thirty-year-old single malt whisky. You can't be an alcoholic when you only drink top shelf. Right?

Ted Magnuson

#34. When my cousin Anil-da started telling us what he'd heard at the market about the groom's family, at my aunt Moina-pehi's wedding in January 2002, his eyes shone like inky marbles reflecting sunlight.

Aruni Kashyap