Famous opening lines of books Reading English books is an excellent way to help your learning and get a cultural kick at the same time. Looking back at all that has been written by accomplished authors throughout history, it’s extremely difficult to pick just ten books to mention, but to...
At the top of the post, we have the poster’sdiagram of Humbert Humbert’s famous first words, by way of Vladimir Nabokov, inLolita: “Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins.” That immortal sentence may always have struck you as incomplete...
Classic literature is filled with some of the most iconic openers, best beginnings and legendary kick-offs that are, on occasion, more famous than the books themselves. They’re the literary first impressions that greet us from the get-go, so it’s essential for opening lines to make an im...
pointing out the absurdity of the song that brought him fame in the first place: "I studied a lot of classical piano, organ and flute, but I never studied yodeling," he said in a Rockologist interview, "and it made me famous through the world...
to begin this process by posting a preliminary500 wordsor so, feel free to do that. Again, it's preferable if these are your first five hundred. And pleaseSINGLE SPACE. No one here is writing notes between the lines and no one on Earth reads double-spaced pages in p...
In 2012, Voyager 1 became the first man-made object to enter interstellar space, at which point John Grunsfeld of NASA echoed the opening lines from 'Star Trek': "Space: The final frontier," he said at the press conference. "These are the voyages of the starship Voyager. Its 36-year ...
Disneyland’s opening day, July 17, 1955, was a nightmare. Rides broke down. Restaurants ran out of food and drink. Long lines formed at bathrooms. All in front of a national audience of 90 million, Disney’s opening day would be known in Disney history as Black Sunday. But Disneyland...