First Line Quotes
40 quotes by 37 authors
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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
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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
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I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.
— Moliere
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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
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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
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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
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If you criticize what you’re doing too early you’ll never write the first line.
— Max Frisch
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I have an idea and a first line -- and that suggests the rest of it. I have little concept of what I’m going to…
— T.C. Boyle
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Early in my career as an engineer, I’d learned that all decisions were objective until the first line of code was written. After that, all…
— Ben Horowitz
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We wrote our first blog post before we wrote our first line of code.
— Jon Miller
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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
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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
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Your pantry is your first line of defense against food-borne illness and things like high blood pressure and cholesterol.
— Joe Bastianich
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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
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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
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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
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Vitamin C is a very effective immune booster and probably the safest first line of defense for infection.
— Lendon Smith
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The ABA works tirelessly in its efforts involving the first line of defense: the prevention of burn injuries.
— Richard Neal
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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
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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: