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Read through the most famous quotes by topic #opening




Not considering this opening worthy of more attention, I continued our pursuit to the Northwest, being desirous to embrace the advantages of the prevailing breeze.


George Vancouver


#attention #being #breeze #considering #continued

I had no idea how difficult Sondheim's music would be. All through the rehearsals, I kept flubbing. There were so many tempo changes. I could never get through the opening number without any mistakes. One day, I went up to Hal Prince and offered to leave the show. He laughed it off. He said, "Don't be silly. That's why we have tryouts."


Mako


#changes #could #day #difficult #get

The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat of a Ferris wheel when it pauses in its turning. The weeks that come before are only a climb from balmy spring, and those that follow a drop to the chill of autumn, but the first week of August is motionless, and hot. It is curiously silent, too, with blank white dawns and glaring noons, and sunsets smeared with too much color.


Natalie Babbitt


#summer #spring

That year the Ribeiro's daffodils seeded early and they seeded cockroaches. Now, ecologically speaking, even a cockroach has its place -- but these suckers bit. That didn't sound Earth-authentic to me. Not that I care, mind you, all I ask is useful. I wasn't betting on that either.


Janet Kagan


#opening-lines #science-fiction #science

What can you say about a twenty-five-year-old girl who died?


Erich Segal


#first-lines #loss #opening-lines #love

Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much. They were the last people you'd expect to be involved in anything strange or mysterious, because they just didn't hold with such nonsense.


J.K. Rowling


#humor #opening-lines #funny

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


Greg Nagan


#first-sentence #first-words #humor #opening-lines #parody

Indian summer is like a woman.


Grace Metalious


#opening-lines #simile #simile

We must reject the artificial and embrace what is real and true: truth in food, community, relationships and self.


Bryant McGill


#awareness #eye-opening #mind-opening #reality-of-life #realization

I am damned,' thinks Bunny Munro in a sudden moment of self-awareness reserved for those who are soon to die.


Nick Cave


#opening-lines #opening-sentences #death






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