#opening

No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality. ↗

— Shirley Jackson

#escapism #first-sentence #opening-lines #reality #sanity

It was a pleasure to burn. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#opening-lines #pleasure

Who is John Galt? ↗

— Ayn Rand

#galt #objectivism #opening-lines #philosophy #taggart

Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#trials

There are gods in Alabama: Jack Daniel's, high school quarterbacks, trucks, big tits, and also Jesus. ↗

— Joshilyn Jackson

#first-sentence #opening-lines #jesus

Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others. ↗

— Barbara Bush

#familiar territory #frees #giving #mind #needs

It didn't happen every time for every movie. Ruthless People was a good movie, but we didn't get a good release or marketing. They completely blew the opening. ↗

— David Zucker

#completely #every #every time #get #good

I define genuine full employment as a situation where there are at least as many job openings as there are persons seeking employment, probably calling for a rate of unemployment, as currently measured, of between 1 and 2 percent. ↗

— William Vickrey

#calling #currently #define #employment #full

I saw Ronnie Hawkins play near my hometown, Port Dover, Ontario, and I saw him play there on New Year's Eve and the following spring I booked myself to be his opening act on maybe five shows, and he hired me after the first night. ↗

— Rick Danko

#after #booked #dover #eve #first

I think the idea of having the show divided into two parts was that Tom Tom Club opened for Talking Heads in Europe, and it was the best we'd ever had as an opening act. ↗

— Tina Weymouth

#best #club #divided #europe #ever