Writer's Block: Awesome Openers

[gurdymonkey]

[Error: unknown template qotd]"Allow me to be frank at the commencement. You will not like me. The gentlemen will be envious and the ladies will be repelled. You will not like me now and you will like me a good deal less as we go on." John Wilmot, second Earl of Rochester (Johnny Depp), "The Libertine." (Go here for the rest of the riveting, appalling opening speech.) No, you will not like him, but you will find it very hard to look away.

"I believe in the Church of Baseball." Annie Savoy (Susan Sarandon), "Bull Durham." Opens another brilliant speech, setting the scene.