285 Quotes About First-lines

I sometimes wonder what was disappeared first—among all the things that have vanished from the island.

As I opened the basement-level door, I thought I could smell birds.

A convenience store is a world of sound.

My name is Mary Katherine Blackwood.

In January I had a proposal due to my boss, Leon Fields, on a new project.

The mental features discoursed of as the analytical, are, in themselves, but little susceptible of analysis.

Night had insensibly superseded day, when Ferdinand’s carriage continued its slow course through the forest; the postilion uttering a thousand complaints on the badness of the roads, and Ferdinand employing the leisure which the tedious progress of his carriage allowed, with reflection to which the purpose of his journey gave rise.

For the most wild yet most homely narrative which I am about to pen, I neither expect nor solicit belief.

About the end of the American war, when the officers of Lord Cornwallis’s army which surrendered at Yorktown, and others, who had been made prisoners during the impolitic and ill-fated controversy were returning to their own country, to relate their adventures and repose themselves after their fatigues, there was amongst them a general officer, to whom Miss S. Gave the name of Browne, but merely, as I understood, to save the inconvenience of introducing a nameless agent in the narrative.