'100 Best First Lines from Novels' by andyhavens

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66. "To be born again," sang Gibreel Farishta tumbling from the heavens, "first you have to die."

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100. The cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring fogs revealed an army stretched out on the hills, resting.

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99. They say when trouble comes close ranks, and so the white people did.

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98. High, high above the North Pole, on the first day of 1969, two professors of English Literature approached each other at a combined velocity of 1200 miles per hour.

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97. He???for there could be no doubt of his sex, though the fashion of the time did something to disguise it???was in the act of slicing at the head of a Moor which swung from the rafters.

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96. Time is not a line but a dimension, like the dimensions of space.

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95. Once upon a time two or three weeks ago, a rather stubborn and determined middle-aged man decided to record for posterity, exactly as it happened, word by word and step by step, the story of another man for indeed what is great in man is that...

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94. In the town, there were two mutes and they were always together.

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93. Psychics can see the color of time it's blue.

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92. He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.