285 Quotes About First-lines

It is cold at six-forty in the morning on a March day in Paris, and seems even colder when a man is about to be executed by firing squad.

The two men appeared out of nowhere, a few yards apart in the narrow, moonlit lane. For a second they stood quite still, wands directed at each other’s chests; then, recognizing each other, they stowed their wands beneath their cloaks and started walking briskly in the same direction.

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.

Look, I didn't want to be a half-blood.

This morning, my mother didn't get out of bed.

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

I was deep behind enemy lines, in the very heart of the enemy camp.

Your Grandfather," said Vanyel's brawny 15 year-old cousin Radevel, "was Crazy.

Damned Elmer's Glue! Just let me finish emasculating this eye and I'll be right with you.