Showing posts with label opening lines. Show all posts
Showing posts with label opening lines. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Best Line of the Night at the Convention



Bob Casey, Jr: "John McCain calls himself a maverick, but he votes with George Bush 90 percent of the time. That's not a maverick. That's a sidekick."

Monday, July 30, 2007

What's your favorite opening line of a novel?

Call me Ishmael may be the easiest to remember, but my favorite opening line of all time is

Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.


What's your favorite?