Great opening lines - book, song or speech

[Profpointy]

Once upon a time, not so long ago, there was a little girl and her name was Emily, and she had a Shop...

Bagpuss

The closing words bring a tear to my eye every time I hear them

Even Bagpuss himself, once he was asleep, was just an old, saggy cloth cat.Baggy, and a bit loose at the seams, but Emily loved him.

 

[Poacher]

Woke up this morning, found myself in bed
My knowledge of the blues is somewhat nil

Spoiler

Half Man Half Biscuit: I was a teenage armchair Honved fan

 

[PeteXXX]

The Tao of Jeet Kune Do" Bruce Lee

"Into a soul absolutely free from thoughts and emotion, even the tiger finds no room to insert its fierce claws."

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

In A Hole In The Ground, There Lived A Hobbit

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Two very differing books

- The Mole Had Been Working Very Hard All The Morning, Spring-Cleaning His Little Home



- At Exactly Fifteen Minutes Past Eight, In The Morning on 6th August, Japanese Time, At The Moment When The Atomic Bomb Flashed Above Hiroshima…..
'Hiroshima' was wrote in 1946, by a journalist from the 'New Yorker' who was given access to interview survivors
My copy is a 1984 print, & falling apart
It's apparantly never been out of print, since initial publication in book form (originally, a supplement in the New Yorker)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroshima_(book)

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

We Called It T'Bottom Field, Never Wondering Where, In Relation To T'Bottom. 'T'Middle Field & T'Top FIeld Might Be

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Big Country
Chance

All The Rain Came Down On A Cold New Town
As He Carried You Away
From Your Fathers Hand That Always Seemed Like A Fist
Reaching Out To Make You Pay


View: https://youtu.be/4eLbI1cdg-A?si=nvvGMzxjKXw2di3M

 

[Ming the Merciless]

“I’m losing my edge/ To all the kids in Tokyo and Berlin/ I’m losing my edge to the art-school Brooklynites in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered eighties.”

 

[sungod]

we were somewhere around barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold.

 

[MontyVeda]

It was the fourteen foot turd they found first... A Cure for Love, Jenkins

 

[Punkawallah]

‘We skipped a light fandango’.

Procol Harum.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Is this the real life?
Is this just fantasy?
Caught in a landslide
No escape from reality 🎶

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Imagine a big explosion as you climb through 3,000 ft. Imagine a plane full of smoke. Imagine an engine going clack, clack, clack. It sounds scary. Well I had a unique seat that day. I was sitting in 1D

 

[raleighnut]

What do you do when you're falling
You've got 30 degrees and you're stalling out
And it's 24 miles to your beacon
There's a crack in the sky and the warnings out

Don't take that dive again
Push through that band of rain

 

[glasgowcyclist]

What do you do when you're falling
You've got 30 degrees and you're stalling out
And it's 24 miles to your beacon
There's a crack in the sky and the warnings out

Don't take that dive again
Push through that band of rain

5 miles out?