the first line QUOTES

1 " Definitions are the guardians of rationality, the first line of defense against the chaos of mental disintegration. "

― Ayn Rand

2 " Some lovers were fortunate enough to grow old together. They’d grown old apart. She did not think him any less handsome. She only wished that she’d been there when the first line on his face had appeared, so that she could have stroked and kissed and cherished it. "

― Sherry Thomas , Delicious (The Marsdens, #1)

3 " Since when," he asked," Are the first line and last line of any poemWhere the poem begins and ends? "

4 " The men and women who continue to hold Lynn's mind hostage against her will believe the future will be tilled with terrorism, death, destruction and a challenge to the survival of America. They believe Lynn and the other lab rats must still respond to their programming for they are the second line of defence against enemies from within and without and the first line of offence in a catastrophe which would require the recreation of America's constitutional government. They are still intent on preparing Lynn for the day when she will he necessary for battle.
One summer day, all these dark realisations came flooding upon Lynn and she knew if she was ever to free herself, she needed to get immediate help. "

― , Secret Weapons: How Two Sisters Were Brainwashed to Kill for Their Country

5 " I have always been considered a bit of an outsider, and a general failure at everything I put my hand towards. In fact, you might even go so far as to say that I’m a lesser being of great insignificance! I state this because, when writing a story, you should always start the first line off with at least one basic truth.

-First lines from the novel Sukiyaki "

― Andrew James Pritchard

6 " Q: What do you think is magical about fiction?

DFW: ... The first line of attack for that question is that there is this existential loneliness in the real world. I don't know what you're thinking or what it's like inside you and you don't know what it's like inside me. In fiction I think we can leap over that wall itself in a certain way... There's another level... A really great piece of fiction for me may or may not take me away and make me forget that I'm sitting in a chair. There's real commercial stuff can do that, and a riveting plot can do that, but it doesn't make me feel less lonely... There's a kind of Ah-ha! Somebody at least for a moment feels about something or sees something the way that I do. It doesn't happen all the time. It's these brief flashes or flames, but I get that sometimes. I feel unalone--intellectually, emotionally, spiritually. I feel human and unalone and that I'm in a deep, significant conversation with another consciousness in fiction and poetry in a way that I don't with other art. "

― David Foster Wallace

7 " A romp in the hay lingers like the first line of a song but your true love is the one you make a life with and write more than a line about you write a whole book. "

8 " Documentaries are the first line of education, and the second line of education is dramatization, such as 'The Pacific'. "