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I can learn my lines fine. It's just reading them in the first place that is the problem.
— Salma Hayek
If I'd known how the week was going to turn out I would have sent it back first thing Monday and asked for a refund.
— Susan Wittig Albert
First, the front lines. They are not lines, really: the war seems to be going on in many places at once. Wooded
— Margaret Atwood
On those cloudy days, Robert Neville was never sure when sunset came, and sometimes they were in the streets before he could get back.
— Richard Matheson
They murdered him.
— Robert Cormier
He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.
— Rafael Sabatini
Fine natures are like fine poems; a glance at the first two lines suffices for a guess into the beauty that waits you if you read on.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Who is John Galt?
— Ayn Rand
By the time I got to the Fox studio for my first major film, I knew how to hit a mark. I knew how to memorize lines. I knew how to pay attention.
— Shirley Temple
I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to.
— Bill Bryson
Ashline Wilde was a human mood ring.
— Karsten Knight
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
The day I turned sixteen years old I had no idea that in a few weeks nearly everyone I cared about would be dead.
— Adam Cadre
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
The Filipino houseboy was conscious now
— Charles Willeford
Maniac Magee was not born in a dump.
— Jerry Spinelli
The first time I read the ad, I choked and cursed and spat and threw the paper to the floor.
— Daniel Quinn
I really love diving in, head first, with directing and not having to worry about hair, makeup or lines.
— Chris Lowell
First, I'll tell about the robbery our parents committed. Then about the murders, which happened later.
— Richard Ford
Call me Ishmael.
— Herman Melville
A bride should look chaste - not caught.
— Roberta Pearce
Never mind reading between the lines, try reading what's on them first.
— Teri Louise Kelly
The runes moved under my fingers as the fabric of space split and fluctuated within the confines of the portal.
— Charity Bradford
That's why I love spiders. 'If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again.
— Diana Wynne Jones
Robert Cohn was once middleweight boxing champion of Princeton.
— Ernest Hemingway,
My name is Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered.
— Alice Sebold
It was Wang Lung's marriage day.
— Pearl S. Buck
He liked radical politics and had a fondness for chocolate.
— Laura Kinsale
When a naked man shows up on your doorstep with a bear trap clamped around his ankle, it's best just to do what he asks
— Molly Harper
When I wake up, the other side of the bed is cold.
— Suzanne Collins
There was a hand in the darkness, and it held a knife.
— Neil Gaiman
The first principle of architectural beauty is that the essential lines of a construction be determined by a perfect appropriateness to its use.
— Gustave Eiffel
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
I've found that I'd be the first one to cut lines.
— Saoirse Ronan
In the town there were two mutes, and they were always together.
— Carson McCullers
Our conversion comes step by step, line upon line. We first build a foundation of faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.
— Neil L. Andersen
The women of this family leaned towards extremes.
— Jane Urquhart
Look, I didn't want to be a half-blood.
— Rick Riordan
He read the familiar first lines of the book and felt the calm come over him, like a comforter.
— Louise Penny
It was a pleasure to burn.
— Ray Bradbury
I just focus on getting the first scene right, with a few lines about the overall plot, and then the book grows organically.
— Alexander McCall Smith
In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
There were crimson roses on the bench; they looked like splashes of blood.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
People often shit themselves when they die. Their muscles slack and their souls flutter free and everything else just...slips out.
— Jay Kristoff
It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. It was the future, and everything sucked.
— Greg Nagan
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
I never really wanted to die. But I followed through anyway. The pain in my heart was excruciating, and death was beautiful.
— Rae Hachton
Who let the dogs in? ... This, we fear, is going to be the question. Who let the dogs in? Who let the dogs in? Who? Who?
— Martin Amis
The great fish moved silently through the night water.
— Peter Benchley
There is no lake at Camp Green Lake.
— Louis Sachar
Vitamin C is a very effective immune booster and probably the safest first line of defense for infection.
— Lendon Smith
If Republicans truly are dedicated to the sanctity of life, they should be the first ones on the front lines trying to get policies for the uninsured.
— Kurt Eichenwald
The sun sets in the west (just about everyone knows that), but Sunset Towers faced east. Strange!
— Ellen Raskin
To the as-yet-unborn, to all innocent wisps of undifferentiated nothingness: Watch out for life.
— Kurt Vonnegut
Sure. Sure you have. I never forget a face.
— Stephen King
Dr Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature
— Anita Brookner
It's late at night when the memory comes for me, like it always seems to when the relief of sleep seems ready to draw me under.
— Joaquin Lowe
On a mountain above the clouds once lived a man who had been the gardener of the emperor of Japan.
— Tan Twan Eng
No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.
— Shirley Jackson
Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.
— James Joyce
There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.
— Charlotte Bronte
There are gods in Alabama: Jack Daniel's, high school quarterbacks, trucks, big tits, and also Jesus.
— Joshilyn Jackson
It was 7 minutes after midnight. The dog was lying on the grass in the middle of the lawn in front of Mrs. Shears's house.
— Mark Haddon
Every seven-year-old deserves a superhero. That's just how it is.
— Fredrik Backman
Congratulations. The fact that you're reading this means you've taken one giant step closer to surviving until your next birthday.
— James Patterson
The boy with fair hair lowered himself down the last few feet of rock and began to pick his way toward the lagoon.
— William Golding
What a lark! What a plunge!
— Virginia Woolf
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
Entertainment has a bad name ... The word wears spandex, pasties, a leisure suit studded with blinking lights.
— Michael Chabon
In darkness there is death.
— Bob Mayer
Let someone else take your place in line, Let someone else be first. Let someone else achieve realization before you.
— Frederick Lenz
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
The idea really came to me the day I got my new false teeth.
— George Orwell
Grandfather recently died. He died alone on a trip away from home in a town where no one expected him to be
— Tea Obreht
Like life, peace begins with women. We are the first to forge lines of alliance and collaboration across conflict divides.
— Zainab Salbi
This is your dividing line, by the way, between child and nonchild - when the first trouble happens that Mama can't fix.
— Peg Bracken
Grow internally first. Strengthen your bottom line first before considering external growth.
— Richard Branson
It was shaping up as a beautiful morning. The last thing I wanted to hear about was murder.
— Jonathan Kellerman
If you're going to read this, don't bother.
— Chuck Palahniuk
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
I did it! I stopped time.
[Hampton Green] — Tim Tharp
[Hampton Green] — Tim Tharp
Indian summer is like a woman.
— Grace Metalious