First Line Quotes

40 quotes by 37 authors

Any newspaper, from the first line to the last, is nothing but a web of horrors, I cannot understand how an innocent hand can touch… — Charles Baudelaire
I started as a fourth-line fighter, went to being a third-line centre, then a second-line winger and a first-line centre. I've played every role there… — Mark Messier
I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others. — Moliere
Even when there's not a joke or a hook, the first line has to be good and snapem to attention. Songs ain't novels. You don't… — Dan Bern
I received the most fantastic welcome to the Broadway Theatre community. I walked on stage to tremendous applause and a long standing ovation, wondering when… — Elaine Paige
Everything has already begun before, the first line of the first page of every novel refers to something that has already happened outside the book. — Italo Calvino
If you criticize what youâ€™re doing too early youâ€™ll never write the first line. — Max Frisch
I have an idea and a first line -- and that suggests the rest of it. I have little concept of what Iâ€™m going to… — T.C. Boyle
Early in my career as an engineer, Iâ€™d learned that all decisions were objective until the first line of code was written. After that, all… — Ben Horowitz
We wrote our first blog post before we wrote our first line of code. — Jon Miller
The usual run of children's books left me cold, and at the age of six I decided to write a book of my own. I… — Bruce Chatwin
The composition of a single melody is born out of a bit of text, perhaps the first line, but it can also be the entire… — Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Your pantry is your first line of defense against food-borne illness and things like high blood pressure and cholesterol. — Joe Bastianich
Managers have traditionally developed the skills in finance, planning, marketing and production techniques. Too often the relations with their people have been assigned a secondary… — William Redington Hewlett
A trick I picked up from reading Frank Miller scripts: ... He tended to always start his panel caps sometimes with a general noun and… — Matt Fraction
There's no other way to learn about it, except through documentaries. I encourage documentarians to continue telling stories about World War II. I think documentaries… — Steven Spielberg
Vitamin C is a very effective immune booster and probably the safest first line of defense for infection. — Lendon Smith
The ABA works tirelessly in its efforts involving the first line of defense: the prevention of burn injuries. — Richard Neal
All we need to do, reader or writer, from first line to final page, is be as open as a book, and be alive to… — Ali Smith
I think what gets a poem going is an initiating line. Sometimes a first line will occur, and it goes nowhere; but other times -… — Billy Collins

Who Wrote These First Line Quotes

37 authors contributed a total of 40 First Line Quotes, led by these top contributors: