First Sentence Quotes
First Sentence Quote of the day
No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.
He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.
Is there any knowledge in the world which is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?
This story about good food begins in a quick-stop convenience market.
The truly revolutionary promise of our nation's founding document is the freedom to pursue happiness-with-a-capital-H.
If the devil ever raised a garden, the Everglades was it.
Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.
This is how it feels to die: It starts from outside and works its way in.
The greatest tragedy that can befall a man is never to know who he really is.
One minute the teacher was talking about the Civil War. And the next minute he was gone. There. Gone. No 'poof.' No flash of light. No explosion.
Goldenrod Moram had a first name that sounded like it belonged in the middle of a fairy tale, where she would be the dazzling princess in need of rescuing.
Toward the end of February 1954, James Beard was at work in his Greenwich Village kitchen doing what he most loved to do: cooking delicious meals.
If you want vampires and werewolves, faeries, fallen angels or zombies, you won't find them here. I know a real-life monster.
There once was a woman named Story Easton who couldn't decide if she should kill herself, or eat a double cheeseburger.
Does such a thing as "the fatal flaw, " that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature?
They say that just before you die your whole life flashes before your eyes, but that's not how it happened for me.
Feathers fell from the sky. Like black snow, they drifted onto an old city called Bath.
