#opening

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #opening




Once you touch the trappings of monarchy, like opening an Egyptian tomb, the inside is liable to crumble.


Anthony Sampson


#egyptian #inside #liable #like #monarchy

Opening day. All you have to do is say the words and you feel the shutters thrown wide, the room air out, the light pour in. In baseball, no other day is so pure with possibility. No scores yet, no losses, no blame or disappointment. No hangover, at least until the game's over.


Mary Schmich


#baseball #blame #day #disappointment #feel

It’s funny how one summer can change everything.


Sarah Dessen


#opening-lines #change

It was dusk - winter dusk. Snow lay white and shining over the pleated hills, and icicles hung from the forest trees. Snow lay piled on the dark road across Willoughby Wold, but from dawn men had been clearing it with brooms and shovels. There were hundreds of them at work, wrapped in sacking because of the bitter cold, and keeping together in groups for fear of the wolves, grown savage and reckless from hunger.


Joan Aiken


#men

As he dropped the last grisly fragment of the dismembered and mutilated body into the small vat of nitric acid that was to devour every trace of the horrid evidence which might easily send him to the gallows, the man sank weakly into a chair and throwing his body forward upon his great, teak desk buried his face in his arms, breaking into dry, moaning sobs.


Edgar Rice Burroughs


#opening-lines #men

Any chance you might sit on my face?' 'Carnal Knowledge' 'That's the stuff.' 'No, I mean 'Carnal Knowledge, the movie. Jack Nicholson says that to Ann Margret when they first meet. She's a skater.' 'Well, is there?' 'Are you always this direct?


Linda Banana


#movies

Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.


J.K. Rowling


#human-nature #opening-lines #nature

There were crimson roses on the bench; they looked like splashes of blood.


Dorothy L. Sayers


#first-sentence #opening-lines #roses #first-sentence

There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.


Charlotte Brontë


#opening-lines #opening-sentences #walks #first-sentence

Marriage brings up all the things I pushed to the back burner - the fears, the mistrust, the doubts, the insecurities. It's like opening Pandora's box.


Jennifer Aniston


#box #brings #burner #doubts #fears