Mar 08 2006
First Lines
GIGA Quotes collects, among other things, the first lines from books, big and small. You can also choose an author, say Douglas Adams, and get something like this:
In the beginning, the universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry, and is generally considered to have been a bad move.
The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don’t.
To summarize the summary of the summary: People are a problem.
The Answer to the Great Question Of . . . Life, the Universe and Everything . . . [is] Forty-two.
Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun.
