Famous opening lines (1 Viewer)

[Pooch]

"It was a dark and stormy night." - untitled novel by Snoopy

Also, A Wrinkle in Time, and probably dozens of others..

 

[T Bell]

Having reached the end of my poor sinner's life, my hair now white, I prepare to leave on this parchment my testimony as to the wondrous and terrible events that I witnessed in my youth, towards the end of the year of our Lord 1327. May God grant me the wisdom and grace to be the faithful chronicler of the happenings that took place in a remote abbey in the dark north of Italy. An abbey whose name it seems, even now, pious and prudent to omit.

-The Name of the Rose

 

[Musesboy]

"'I've watched through his eyes, I've listened through his ears, and I tell you he's the one.'" — Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card.

 

[perry147]

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

I was going to post this.

 

[playin4beer]

Book or Movie??

Book: My personal favorite...(actually it was the opening AND closing line)

"The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed."

Stephen King...The Dark Tower Series

 

[T Bell]

"Now I want you to remember that no ******* ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb ******* die for his country. . ."

-Patton

 

[Vladislav Tretiak]

The man in black fled across the desert and the Gunslinger followed

It was a pleasure to burn

True! — nervous — very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am, but why will you say that I am mad?

All this happened, more or less

 

[CBusAlex]

Did you see that fight outside?

 

[Verbal Kint]

He was on his way home from candletop

Been two weeks gone and he thought hed stop

At webs and have him a drink for he went home to her

Andy wo-lo said hello

He said hi whats a doing

Wo said sit down I got some bad news thats gonna hurt

Said Im your best friend and you know thats right

But your young bride aint home tonight

Since you been gone shes been seeing that amos boy seth

He got mad and he saw red

Andy said boy dont you lose your head

Cause to tell you the truth Ive been with her myself

 

[Chaka]

Did you see that fight outside?

 

[Leeroy Jenkins]

“I believe in America.”

The Godfather

first thing I thought of.

 

[SmoovySmoov]

"The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed." Stephen King...The Dark Tower Series

That's what I thought of.I submit:"Royal Tenenbaum bought the house on Archer Avenue in the winter of his 35th year. Over the next decade he and his wife had three children and then they separated."

 

[Keith R]

I don't want to be a product of my environment... I want my environment to be a product of me.

Jack Nicholson, The Departed

 

[TwinTurbo]

"Make way for Dark Helmet."

and

"In our time, no foreign army has ever occupied American soil. Until now"

 

[Parrothead]

Patriots -26 (2007 season)

 

[Dexter]

This is the end. ~ The Doors

 

[clampino]

Obviously "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times..." is first on the list.Also, "Call me Ishmael."But my personal favorite is: "There is a lovely road which runs from Ixopo into the hills. These hills are grass covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it."

It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times.

 

[Ilov80s]

A story has no beginning or end; arbitrarily one chooses a moment of experience from which to look ahead.

"I AM GUNNERY SERGEANT HARTMAN, YOUR SENIOR DRILL INSTRUCTOR. FROM NOW ON YOU WILL SPEAK ONLY WHEN SPOKEN TO, AND THE FIRST AND LAST WORDS OUT OF YOUR FILTHY SEWERS WILL BE SIR."

 

[peaces]

Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it. Once we truly know that life is difficult - once we truly understand and accept it - then life is no longer difficult. Because once it is accepted, the fact that life is difficult no longer matters.

 

[Jack White]

Call me Russel Wren. A secretary named Peggy Tumulty was my unique employee, and at the moment I owed her a fortnight's pay.

 

[PatsWillWin]

Does "Shut that #### up before I ####start her head" count?

Not really, but it's the first thing I thought of.

Same.