QuoteFrom the BBC.
It seems editors at big companies dont know their first lines either. I got 4/10.
Correct , Mitch AlbomOriginally Posted by sligoman
The five people you meet in heaven, unsure about author though.
From the BBC.
It seems editors at big companies dont know their first lines either. I got 4/10.
"I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974."
Allez les Bleus
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides?
Extratime.ie
Yo te quiero, mi querida. Sin tus besos, yo soy nada.
Abri o portão de ouro, da maquina do tempo.
Mi mamá me hizo guapo, listo y antimadridista.
Bingo.
Allez les Bleus
"Abandon all hope ye who enter here is scrawled in blood red lettering on the side of the Chemical Bank near the corner of Eleventh and First and is in print large enough to be seen from the backseat of the cab as it lurches forward in the traffic leaving Wall Street and just as ******* ***** notices the words a bus pulls up, the advertisement for Les Miserables on it's side blocking his view, but ***** who is with *****&***** and twenty-six doesn't seem to care because he tells the driver he will give him five dollars to turn the radio up, "Be My Baby" on WYNN, and the driver, black, not American, does so"
Extratime.ie
Yo te quiero, mi querida. Sin tus besos, yo soy nada.
Abri o portão de ouro, da maquina do tempo.
Mi mamá me hizo guapo, listo y antimadridista.
Brett Easton Ellis - American Psycho...great book.
"Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday, I don't know."
Allez les Bleus
"Gosh these hols are whizzing by," moaned Dick peering at the calendar on the kitchen wall. "Only two more weeks left, and then we'll be heading back to school."
The Famous Five get ASBOS.
Allez les Bleus
I'm suprised no ones taken the wee and given this a shot,
"It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times"
On a more serious note
"Lyra and her daemon moved through the darkening hall, taking care to keep to one side, out of sight of the kitchen."
Not a difficult one but topical seeing as the movie is out soon
Not got a clue of that one but...
"***** gets me a job as a waiter, after that *****'s pushing a gun in my mouth and saying, the first step to eternal life is you have to die"
TO TELL THE TRUTH IS REVOLUTIONARY
The ONLY foot.ie user with a type of logic named after them!
All of this has happened before. All of it will happen again.
The Outsider
Albert Camus
Presumably that Philip Pullman book I have no intention of reading - Northern Lights?
Here are two Irish written ones - the first a cerified classic, the second a little more obscure by a big literary name:
******** ******'s Journal
3 May. Bistritz. __Left Munich at 8:35 P. M, on 1st May, arriving at Vienna early next morning; should have arrived at 6:46, but train was an hour late.
That question was less stupid, though you asked it in a profoundly stupid way.
Help me, Arthur Murphy, you're my only hope!
Correct Bluebeard. You should read the books. Kick's any of that Harry Potty stuff to touch. Best kids stroke fantasy series I've ever read
I'd keep your kid stroking fantasies to yourself if you want to remain a free man.
How about this, the opening lines of the best short story ever written (with the possible exception of The Dead.)
I am a sick man. I am a spiteful man. I think there is something wrong with my liver.
A leading authority on League of Ireland football since 2003. You're probably wrong.
I'm glad no-one was in the office with me when I read that - I literally laughed out loud.
Out for a spell, got neglected, lay on the bench unselected.
"The shrill tones of the phone broke the deadly silence. A profound, edgy silence that you'd get from a room full of people where Michael Jackson has just offered to babysit".
"It was Delaney. It was true. I was the Gaffer".
Anyone?
Quoting years at random since 1975
While I was the butt (snigger) of the joke, I still laughed out loud
The World According to Stan.
I awoke from The Sickness at the age of forty-five, calm and sane, and in reasonably good health except for a weakened liver and the look of borrowed flesh common to all who survive The Sickness anyone?
And BohsPartisan's is Fight Club I believe, people might have been thrown by the **** in place of the name Tyler, probably thought it was a curse word
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