#opening

Call me Ishmael. ↗

— Herman Melville

#introduction #opening-lines #sobriquet #first-sentence

In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#opening-lines #first-sentence

When you go to the movie theater and the opening of this movie and you see the kids just cracking up with a character you are giving your voice to, you get goose bumps. It's so beautiful. ↗

— Antonio Banderas

#bumps #character #cracking #get #giving

With the opening of the second decade of the twentieth century it seemed that the stage was set for the last act in an unquestioned evolutionary drama. ↗

— Ralph A. Cram

#century #decade #drama #evolutionary #last

The things sane societies loved, it hated. The things sane societies hated, it loved; the things sane societies tried to do, it tried to avoid; the things sane societies tried to avoid, it did with relish. It pursued chaos and hated order, it worshipped ugliness and loathed beauty. If sane people wished to dress as neatly and well as they could, these people were persuaded to dress as hideously and grotesquely as possible; if sane people wanted music to be melodious, these people (whether we are speaking of their "popular" or their "serious" music) were cozened into believing they liked raucous and tuneless noise. If women had been feminine, if home life had been secure, if children had been innocent, if men had been gallant, if art had been beautiful, if love had been romantic, then all these things must be stood on their heads. Of course, life was not always like that. Of course things had often fallen short of their ideals, or even of their minimal norms; but at least most people tried to do things properly and at least the surrounding civilisation encouraged them to try. Never before had the deliberate aim been an inverted parody of all that should be. Everywhere, in every area of life, a single principle reigned: inversion; the worship of chaos; the creed of the madhouse. ↗

— Alice Lucy Trent

#art

My observation is that after one hundred and twenty years of modernisation since the opening of the country, present-day Japan is split between two opposite poles of ambiguity. ↗

— Kenzaburo Oe

#ambiguity #between #country #hundred #japan

To me, such functions are like supermarket openings. ↗

— Norton Simon

#like #me #openings #such #supermarket

I'm just opening the doors. And a lot of this is new to me - thinking about it, and letting go again and again and again, trusting that if I'm meant to continue working as a musician, it'll happen. If I'm not, then pull out the life support. ↗

— Jane Siberry

#again #continue #doors #go #happen

We built that into a wholesale business that became, really, one of the largest companies in the United States. We had success in building new markets, opening markets for competition, and that takes a personal toll. ↗

— Jeffrey Skilling

#building #built #business #companies #competition

We are opening up an enormous new era in archaeology. Time capsules in the deep oceans. ↗

— John F. Lehman, Jr.

#deep #enormous #era #new #new era