Favourite opening lines

[theclaud]

And, we've done it before, but this is a blinder:

"Life in this society being, at best, an utter bore and no aspect of society being at all relevant to women, there remains to civic-minded, responsible, thrill-seeking females only to overthrow the government, eliminate the money system, institute complete automation and destroy the male sex."

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Well if this aint too intellectual for ya...

"Got my cock in my pocket and I'm reelin' down the old highway"

or

"Taumatawhakatangihangakoayauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukypokaiwhenuakitanatahu"

 

[User169]

"Helen woke up in the middle of the night wearing someone else's breasts. Not her own insignificant, almost nonexistent bumps, but huge pendulous, full ones."

 

[threebikesmcginty]

It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on Earth has ever produced the expression “as pretty as an airport”.

 

[Aperitif]

It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on Earth has ever produced the expression “as pretty as an airport”.

Must be the first line of a Heath Rowbinson biography.

"My name is Frank Bascombe. I am a sportswriter." - not stunning, agreed, but Richard Ford, the writer, adds a reflective sentence a couple of lines down which drew me into the book...

"if sportswriting teaches you anything, and there is much truth to it as well as plenty of lies, it is that for your life to be worth anything you must sooner or later face the possibility of terrible, searing regret. Though you must also manage to avoid it or your life will be ruined."

I have read a few books, but this was the first time I had ever made a note of anything - I usually just forget words.. until the next time they pop up!

Good thread RT.

 

[TheDoctor]

It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.

 

[MontyVeda]

bee bop a lula, she's my baby

 

[Zoof]

I'm listening to Future of the Left's You Need Satan More Than He Needs You. The opening line is "Goddamn, it's gonna rain. I only brought my socks".
What's your favourite opening line?

Hi Rhythm I wrote this just for u
I will be that flying cloud; that appearer’s and goes, without a sound.

And if I was to cover you with rain, it would prove my humour was the same.

 

[Keith Oates]

It was on or about a Tuesday (I speak without boasting) that my campanion and I crept in by darkness to the unpleasant harbour of Lowestoft.

 

[sheddy]

Once upon a time...

 

[Givebest]

My quotes are Jai Guru Dev 'Jai' means Victory, 'Guru' means the biggest, the greatest. 'Dev' is the big mind the higher self in you. Sometimes your small self wins and some times your higher self wins. When the small self wins over you, you are miserable.



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[TVC]

Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-eight million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.

 

[Foghat]

She was a girl from Birmingham
because Rotten piles in at full, energising volume and uncompromising venom, and it sounds so good.....

'ello, 'ello, 'ello, 'ello.....
because Ian Hunter's delivery is perfect and fits the ensuing stomp-riffing so well, and it sounds so good.....

And:
"Quinquireme of Ninevah from distant Ophir"
for obvious reasons......

 

[germanicdogman]

Black Sabbath Black Sabbath
What is this that stands before me?
Figure in black which points at me
Turn around quick and start to run
Find out I'm the chosen one, oh nooo!

it reminds me of a horror story

 

[skids]

Chewing out a rhythm on my bubble gum