#opening

Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera. ↗

— Yousuf Karsh

#camera #heart #lens #look #mind

There are only two kinds of people in our town. The stupid and the stuck." ↗

— Kami Garcia

#first-lines #opening-lines #beauty

No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water. ↗

— H.G. Wells

#first-sentence #opening-lines #business

Congratulations. The fact that you're reading this means you've taken one giant step closer to surviving until your next birthday. ↗

— James Patterson

#opening-lines #warning #experience

Grandfather recently died. He died alone on a trip away from home in a town where no one expected him to be ↗

— Téa Obreht

#fiction #opening-lines #home

Sam LeClaire was a good-looking son of a bitch. ↗

— Rachel Gibson

#opening-sentence #humor

People need not fear the unknown if they are capable of achieving what they need and want. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#inspirational #inspirational

First, I'm going to give you all the Copperfield crap, and I'm not going to apologize for any of it, not one paragraph, so if you're not interested in how I came to see the future, or how I came to understand that the biggest truth in my life was a lie, or, for that matter, how I parlayed my distaste for hot dogs into an '84 RX-7 and a new self-concept, do us both a favor, and just stop now. ↗

— Jonathan Evison

#lulu #opening-lines #life

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