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I rode it once, which was up the driveway in the opening credits of the show. I didn't know how to stop it. I actually nearly killed the director of photography, and I smashed into the sound truck.


Henry Winkler


#credits #director #driveway #how #i

My name is Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered.


Alice Sebold


#inspirational #life-and-death #opening-lines #death

Mma Ramotswe had a detective agency in Africa, at the foot of Kgale Hill. These were its assets: a tiny white van, two desks, two chairs, a telephone, and an old typewriter. Then there was a teapot, in which Mma Ramotswe – the only lady private detective in Botswana – brewed redbush tea. And three mugs – one for herself, one for her secretary, and one for the client. What else does a detective agency really need? Detective agencies rely on human intuition and intelligence, both of which Mma Ramotswe had in abundance. No inventory would ever include those, of course.


Alexander McCall Smith


#intelligence

It was dusk - winter dusk. Snow lay white and shining over the pleated hills, and icicles hung from the forest trees. Snow lay piled on the dark road across Willoughby Wold, but from dawn men had been clearing it with brooms and shovels. There were hundreds of them at work, wrapped in sacking because of the bitter cold, and keeping together in groups for fear of the wolves, grown savage and reckless from hunger.


Joan Aiken


#men

As he dropped the last grisly fragment of the dismembered and mutilated body into the small vat of nitric acid that was to devour every trace of the horrid evidence which might easily send him to the gallows, the man sank weakly into a chair and throwing his body forward upon his great, teak desk buried his face in his arms, breaking into dry, moaning sobs.


Edgar Rice Burroughs


#opening-lines #men

Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.


J.K. Rowling


#human-nature #opening-lines #nature

It was almost December, and Jonas was beginning to be frightened.


Lois Lowry


#opening-lines #first-sentence

The other thing in composition is opening up the unconscious.


John Fahey


#opening #other #thing #unconscious #up

The grandest thing has been the lifting up of the gates and the opening of the doors to the women of America, giving liberty to twenty-seven million women, thus opening to them a new and larger life and a higher ideal.


Olympia Brown


#been #doors #gates #giving #grandest

A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provide they come close together.


Federico Fellini


#come #ending #film #good #good film






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