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But how are you this fine evening? - My arches are falling. - Isn't that the first line of a sonnet?
— Patrick Ness
The story thread suddenly dropped in a hopeless snarl, just as he was about to get it through the needle's eye of the first line.
— Cornell Woolrich
You can't kill us all, human.'
He was right. I raised the machine gun a little. 'True, but who's going to be first in line? — Laurell K. Hamilton
He was right. I raised the machine gun a little. 'True, but who's going to be first in line? — Laurell K. Hamilton
I've found my line- from now on this comes first. This is my immediate duty- without this I am nothing.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
I write with a fountain pen. And then revise word by word and line by line so that the first draft of a scene is usually the tenth or so draft.
— John Dufresne
When I first was able to fill in A-C-T-O-R for the occupation line on my passport, that was the first time I really felt, 'Wow, I'm home.'
— Brendan Gleeson
I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line.
— Lucille Ball
Ensure your employees understand what your brand stands for so they can be your first line of word-of-mouth advertising.
— Simon Mainwaring
That you should not be here when something we've both wanted happens is no new thing for me. Today too, as always, you're not here.
— Sachin Kundalkar
First, I'll tell about the robbery our parents committed. Then about the murders, which happened later.
— Richard Ford
They shoot the white girl first.
— Toni Morrison
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The business of murder took time, patience, skill, and a tolerance for the monotonous. — J.D. Robb
The business of murder took time, patience, skill, and a tolerance for the monotonous. — J.D. Robb
In Britain, doctors now use exercise as a first-line treatment for depression, but it's vastly underutilized in the United States,
— John J. Ratey
For the first time ever, I'd managed a great parting line and a grand exit. And it still felt like crap.
— Rosemary Clement-Moore
The first clothing line I had was called Very Rue. Then we changed the name and moved to QVC, and the name became A Touch of Rue.
— Rue McClanahan
Life is going to hit you some line drives, and sometimes you'll have to think fast. However, it's better to think first than to think fast.
— John Bytheway
When I think of my wife, I always think of her head.
— Gillian Flynn
When they figure out how to bottle up orgasms and sell them as a food additive, I'll be first in line.
— Nenia Campbell
The first of the
line is tied to a tree and the last is being eaten by the ants . — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
line is tied to a tree and the last is being eaten by the ants . — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The first complete sentence out of my mouth was probably that line about consistency being the hobgoblin of small minds.
— Philip Johnson
Success can be measured in terms of smiles and the speed of the initial "mad rush" to be the first in line.
— The Imagineers
I started Botox the first year it came out. I was the first one in line, and I have had Botox every six months since then.
— Janice Dickinson
Vitamin C is a very effective immune booster and probably the safest first line of defense for infection.
— Lendon Smith
The French selectors never do anything by halves; for the first international of the season against Ireland they dropped half the three-quarter line.
— Nigel Starmer-Smith
Everything in life that deviates from the straight and, so to speak, normal line, makes people first curious and then indignant.
— Stefan Zweig
There was no fast and painless way to perform an amputation, Tessia knew. Not if you did it properly.
— Trudi Canavan
The first transatlantic line that enabled ordinary citizens to call between North America and Europe was laid only in 1956.
— Steven Johnson
The UN declaration on human rights must always be first in line before religion or other cultural habits, in case of any conflict between them.
— Bjorn Ulvaeus
The villagers marked the time in two ways: before the swamp and after. What came before was good. And all that came after was not.
— Melanie Crowder
The bottom line is that I like my first drafts to be blind, unconscious, messy efforts; that's what gets me the best material.
— Jennifer Egan
There will always be someone trying to beat you first in line, and also the finish line.
— Anthony Liccione
I was a pretty wild kid, and I probably lived 48 years in my first 20. But I always seemed to have a true line of faith for some reason.
— Michael Harney
Feathers fell from the sky. Like black snow, they drifted onto an old city called Bath.
— Stefan Bachmann
It was like being trapped forever in the present tense of the first line of a first reader.
— Craig Raine
Your pantry is your first line of defense against food-borne illness and things like high blood pressure and cholesterol.
— Joe Bastianich
Rules for writing the first line? The last line?
First line: Make them want more.
Last line: Make them want the next book. — Darynda Jones
First line: Make them want more.
Last line: Make them want the next book. — Darynda Jones
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. Your really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
— Lucille Ball
A leader is always first in line during times of criticism and last in line during times of recognition.
— Orrin Woodward
Robert Frost had always said you mustn't think of the last line first, or it's only a fake poem, not a real one. I'm inclined to agree.
— Howard Nemerov
Men. Do they all evade as first line of defense?
— Karen Marie Moning
Nice guys finish first. If you don't know that, then you don't know where the finish line is.
— Garry Shandling
Europe has become the first line of defense for the United States. It has become a training ground for terrorists.
— Tyler Drumheller
In the end I'm still a writer. I'm still a journalist, and my first responsibility is to my readers. That's where I have to draw the line.
— Michael Pollan
First, there will be no kidnapping. I know you're stronger and bigger and have magic and crap, but I'm drawing the line at kidnapping.
— Carrie Ann Ryan
My first commercial was an Old Navy commercial where I stood in line in front of a club, and Fran Drescher was in it.
— Amber Stevens
They were really children that morning. By nightfall none of them were.
First line from Patrick's short story - The Quarry-gang Kids. — Patrick McCusker
First line from Patrick's short story - The Quarry-gang Kids. — Patrick McCusker
Poetry is like ... first all you have is ...
A line weaving through your mind
Like the tail of a child's kite
Unfettered by reason or rhyme. — Vaddey Ratner
A line weaving through your mind
Like the tail of a child's kite
Unfettered by reason or rhyme. — Vaddey Ratner
Gabriel Walsh comes from a long line of hustlers. He's just the first one to go to law school and get a license for it.
— Kelley Armstrong
The perfect racing car crosses the finish line first and subsequently falls into its component parts.
— Ferdinand Porsche
When I first began to learn to sing ... I would get off on nearly every line and did not know it. I have learned to know when I am off.
— Heber J. Grant
On a mountain above the clouds once lived a man who had been the gardener of the emperor of Japan.
— Tan Twan Eng
I stood on the outside of disaster, looking in.
— Dick Francis
My first line of defense against reality is called sleep.
— Ashleigh Brilliant
Our conversion comes step by step, line upon line. We first build a foundation of faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.
— Neil L. Andersen
I think brilliant stuff comes out of working with limitations. One liners are very limiting, but that's what drew me to them in the first place.
— Anthony Jeselnik
Let someone else take your place in line, Let someone else be first. Let someone else achieve realization before you.
— Frederick Lenz
Every individual alive today, even the very highest, is to be derived in an unbroken line from the first and lowest forms.
— August Weismann
She stood by his bedside and waited for him to die.
— Richard L. Mabry
It is cold at six-forty in the morning on a March day in Paris, and seems even colder when a man is about to be executed by firing squad.
— Frederick Forsyth
To be born again," sang Gibreel Farishta tumbling from the heavens, "first you have to die.
— Salman Rushdie
I saw, for the first time, how thin the line was between fear and love, between reverence and adoration.
— Veronica Roth
The idea really came to me the day I got my new false teeth.
— George Orwell
Documentaries are the first line of education, and the second line of education is dramatization, such as 'The Pacific'.
— Steven Spielberg
Many people think the Cards at the end of the wire will cross the finish line first.
— Jerry Coleman
The ABA works tirelessly in its efforts involving the first line of defense: the prevention of burn injuries.
— Richard Neal
This is your dividing line, by the way, between child and nonchild - when the first trouble happens that Mama can't fix.
— Peg Bracken