Great opening lines - book, song or speech

[Richard A Thackeray]

The Screen Door Slams, Marys Dress Sways
Like A Vision, She Dances Across The Porch, As The Radio Plays


Bruce Springsteen & The E-Street Band
Thunder Road

 

[Sea of vapours]

“Saigon. Sh*t.”
'Apocalypse Now'

 

[Ming the Merciless]

What's that from Ming?

A Child Called It by Dave Pelzer

 

[Red17]

`Slowly the alcohol hazes my brain, but right at this moment I need it`

A bit of Otway that often comes to mind

 

[Fastpedaller]

A song opening from the Moody Blues (Known mostly for 'Nights in White satin, but also a whole load of great tracks)
"I woke up today I was crying, Lost in a lost World"
Very relevant to our present times

 

[Stevo 666]

Renton (Ewan McGregor), Trainspotting:
"Choose Life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a f***ing big television."

 

[Stevo 666]

Terminator 2: Judgment Day
"3 billion human lives ended on August 29th, 1997. The survivors of the nuclear fire called the war Judgment Day." Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton)

 

[Moon bunny]

The education bestowed on Flora Poste by her parents had been expensive, athletic and prolonged; and when they died within a few weeks of one another during the annual epidemic of the influenza or Spanish Plague which occurred in her twentieth year, she was discovered to possess every art and grace save that of earning her own living."

Cold Comfort Farm
Stella Gibbons.

 

[Legs]

It was just after dark when the truck started down
The hill that leads into Scranton Pennsylvania.

 

[Legs]

If Youth, throughout all history, had had a champion to stand up for it; to show a doubting world that a child can think; and, possibly, do it practically; you wouldn't constantly run across folks today who claim that 'a child don't know anything.'

 

[matticus]

Chapter 1: The Texan.

It was love at first sight. The first time Yossarian saw the chaplain he fell madly in love with him.
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Joseph Heller - Catch 22