What's the First Line in the Closest Book?

[peri]

"The potential contents of a book which tries to cover the history of a nation are vast." - Scotland, a New History - Michael Lynch.

 

[notanordinarygirl]

"Throughout its illustrious history, Thomas' Calculus has been used to support a variety of courses and teaching methods, from traditional to experimental." - Thomas' Calculus Part One: Early Transcedentals.

 

[paynebearclan]

I saw this on a different message board and thought it sounded fun.

Here's mine...

"Let's do it." Dusk was settling in. The air was cool, fragrant with pine and sage, and the swiftly moving river beckoned.

(From Captivating by John and Stasi Eldridge)

"in the beginning...." from the holy bible written by god. keep it on my nightstand.

 

[kevin36]

"The stars were out, and they were as beautiful as always."

Now if I can just finish it, maybe I can get it published...

 

[DailyBlessings]

"Hot, thought the Parisians."

From Suite Francais, by Irene Nemirovsky.

 

[knownbeforetime]

A directory to the leaders, programs and believers of Silver Creek Fellowship"

My church directory... closest book on hand...

 

[Ellesar]

"Today we live in a predominantly electrical world."

Basic Engineering Circuit Analysis by J. David Irwin

 

[Bachi234]

"Although this book tells the large and complex story of the history of the United States, it has a very simple purpose."
-American History written by Alan Brinkley

 

[HiredGoon]

"We will come in a bit to such biography as we need, but for first encounter, this: He's age 27." -Light for the City: Calvin's Preaching, Source of Life and Liberty, by Lester De Koster.

 

[emmanemena]

Geographic Information Analysis is not an established discipline.
Geographic Analysis, O'Sullivan & Unwin

No wonder I'm having trouble with this subject!

 

[AFallingStar]

"He invented a face for himself."-From the poem "The Other" in A Draft of Shadows by Octavio Paz.

 

[TinkaBella]

"Cadel Piggott was just seven years old when he first met Thaddeus Roth".

- Evil Genius by Cathrine Jinks

 

[notanordinarygirl]

"Bastará decir que soy Juan Pablo Castel, el pintor que mató a María Iribarne; supongo que el proceso está en el recuerdo de todos y que no se necesitan mayores explicaciones sobre mi persona."

-El túnel by Ernesto Sábato

(Translated:

“It will suffice to say that I am Juan Pablo Castel, the painter that killed Maria Iribarne; I suppose that the process is in the memory of all and that no further explications need to be said of my person.&#8221

 

[jsimms615]

1. Compliment three people every day.

From "The Complete Life's Little Instruction Book" by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

i think this thread is good, but maybe we could do this line and then ask people to guess what it is from?

 

[skunkfeather]

It was sometime after 2am when the small car pulled into the gravel turnoff from the highway and rolled to a stop with its lights out.


(Monster by Steve Jackson - ... true crime)

 

[jenptcfan]

Have you ever said any of the following things to yourself?

Safe People by Cloud and Townsend

 

[Ellesar]

"They won't be taking blood or anything, will they?" Callie Hayes looked up from the clipboard in her hands to the dimpled youth behind the receptionist's counter.

~Arena by Karen Hancock

 

[openup4christ]

"The importance of Edgar Allan Poe to American literature is uncontested."
-The Importance Of Edgar Allan Poe (Rafael Tilton)

 

[notanordinarygirl]

"I have just returned from a visit to my landlord - the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with."

-Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

 

[kiwimac]

"NATURE (the art whereby God hath made and governs the world) is by the art of man, as in many other things, so in this also imitated, that it can make an artificial animal."

Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan