Once Upon A Time famous quotes
07-12-2025
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Once upon a time the English knew who they were.
-- Anna Pavlova -
Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered she had turned into the wrong person.
-- Anne Tyler -
Ballroom dancing: it's a wonderful thing at so many levels because you've got to follow the rules. They used to call those rules etiquette once upon a time, but you don't really have that any more.
-- Anton du Beke -
Above all, I feel a quiet pride that for the rest of my days I can look at myself in the mirror and know that once upon a time I was good enough. Good enough to call myself a member of the SAS. Some things don’t have a price tag.
-- Bear Grylls -
Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were--Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, and Peter.
-- Beatrix Potter -
Once upon a time I was falling in love, now I'm only falling apart.
-- Bonnie Tyler -
Really believing in "once upon a time". Believing that it will draw you in, take you with me to a place you've never been before.
-- Cameron Dokey -
Once upon a time there was what there was, and if nothing had happened there would be nothing to tell.
-- Charles de Lint -
Once upon a time people talked about the infallibility of the pope; today it is that of the merchant which they wish to establish.
-- Charles Fourier -
Anyone can have a once-upon-a-time or a happily-ever-after, but it's the journey between that makes the story worth telling.
-- Chris Colfer -
Once upon a time there was a young lady who lived in a marsh, and her name was Poison.
-- Chris Wooding -
Once upon a time humans faced each other and pulled thoughts from minds, advanced rapidly, revolutionised industry and evolved explosively. Then one day they stopped, and stared at a box. They grew fat and awkward in public, stopped expressing emotions and couldn't figure out how to reverse it: they reinvented themselves from Emperors back into prawns, because someone turned the TV on.
-- Craig Stone -
Once upon a time, something happened, and it was better than something not happening. The end.
-- Dan Harmon -
Once upon a time ... the only autonomous intelligences we humans knew of were us humans. We thought then that if humankind ever devised another intelligence that it would be the result of a huge project ... a great mass of silicon and ancient transistors and chips and circuit boards ... a machine with lots of networking circuits, in other words, aping-if you will pardon the expression-the human brain in form and function. Of course, AIs did not evolve that way. They sort of slipped into existence when we humans were looking the other way.
-- Dan Simmons -
Once upon a time there was a fairy godmother, but the rest of the time there was none. This story is about one of those other times.
-- Diane Setterfield -
The difference between a fairy tale and a sea tale? A fairy tale starts with "Once upon a time". A sea tale starts with " This ain't no $hit"!
-- Edith Widder -
Never forget that once upon a time, in an unguarded moment, you recognized yourself as a friend.
-- Elizabeth Gilbert -
Once upon a time we were just plain people. But that was before we began having relationships with mechanical systems. Get involved with a machine and sooner or later you are reduced to a factor.
-- Ellen Goodman -
Sergio Leone's 'Once Upon a Time in America' is a brilliant movie. It's about four hours long, but it's so well done.
-- Erik Estrada -
There were dreams once upon a time, dreams now all but forgotten. On sad days I dust them off and fondle them nostalgically, with a patronizing wonder at the naivete of the youth who dreamed them.
-- Glen Cook -
McGough: I'm sorry. I'm afraid I've caught poetry. Mr Bones: Oh really? Well, don't worry, sir - I used to suffer from short stories. McGough: Really? When? Mr Bones: Oh, once upon a time ...
-- Graham Chapman -
That was the only decision there was once upon a time: what to do with the night.
-- Harry Crews -
That's the ideal meeting...once upon a time, only once, unexpectedly, then never again.
-- Helen Oyeyemi -
Once upon a time they had some bad luck, and they blame everything on that.
-- Herta Muller -
It was not once upon a time, but a certain time in history, before anyone knew what was happening, that Walt Disney cast a spell on the fairy tale, and he has held it captive ever since.
-- Jack Zipes -
Once upon a time – for that is how all stories should begin – there was a boy who lost his mother.
-- John Connolly -
There was no "before" the beginning of our universe, because once upon a time there was no time.
-- John D. Barrow -
I've always felt like I was on the margins. Once upon a time that's what independent used to mean.
-- John Sayles -
Once upon a time the world was sweeter than we knew. Everything was ours; how happy we were then, but then once upon a time never comes again.
-- Johnny Mercer -
Humans simply aren’t moved to action by 'data dumps,' dense PowerPoint slides, or spreadsheets packed with figures. People are moved by emotion. The best way to emotionally connect other people to our agenda begins with “Once upon a time
-- Jonathan Gottschall -
We are creatures of story, and the process of changing one mind or the whole world must begin with 'Once upon a time.'
-- Jonathan Gottschall -
When I was little, I made up my own fairy tales, and the ghostly echo of Once upon a time shapes all the fiction Ive ever written.
-- Justine Larbalestier -
Once upon a time," he said out loud to the darkness. He said these words because they were the best, the most powerful words that he knew and just the saying of them comforted him.
-- Kate DiCamillo -
The shapes arranged themselves into words, and the words spelled out a delicious and wonderful phrase: Once upon a time.
-- Kate DiCamillo -
Once upon a time, an angel and a devil fell in love. It did not end well.
-- Laini Taylor -
Once upon a time, a girl lived in a sandcastle, making monsters to send through a hole in the sky.
-- Laini Taylor -
Once upon a time, an angel and a devil held a wishbone between them. And its snap split the world in two.
-- Laini Taylor -
Once upon a time, a little girl was raised by monsters. But angels burned the doorways to their world, and she was all alone.
-- Laini Taylor -
On 'Swingtown,' I think that's when I was able to blend the character-slash-leading lady roles, and that's what I'm doing on 'Once Upon a Time' as well. She's a leading lady, but she's also this character.
-- Lana Parrilla -
Once upon a time freedom used to be life-now it's money. I guess the world really do change.
-- Lorraine Hansberry -
Even in the Future the Story Begins with Once Upon a Time.
-- Marissa Meyer -
Writing is storytelling. No matter how you slice it, you're saying, 'Once upon a time.' That's what writing is all about.
-- Mary Higgins Clark -
Once upon a time there was a saucer pie. A saucer pie is one that is baked in a saucer instead of a pan; and if you have never seen one, I hope you will before you are a hundred years old.
-- Maud Lindsay -
Had I been brighter, the ladies been gentler, the Scotch been weaker, had the gods been kinder, had the dice been hotter, this could have been a one-sentence story: Once upon a time I lived happily ever after.
-- Mickey Rooney -
Once upon a time there was a lady. She had no children, and no happiness either. And at first she cried for a long time, but then she became wicked...
-- Mikhail Bulgakov -
Once upon a time there was a Once upon a time there was a Once upon a time there was a Stop this. It's undignified.
-- N.K. Jemisin -
I’m letting God write my love story because once upon a time, I took control of it and it didn’t work well.
-- Nikki Gil -
At its best, fantasy rewards the reader with a sense of wonder about what lies within the heart of the commonplace world. The greatest tales are told over and over, in many ways, through centuries. Fantasy changes with the changing times, and yet it is still the oldest kind of tale in the world, for it began once upon a time, and we haven't heard the end of it yet.
-- Patricia A. McKillip -
rush of pine scent (once upon a time), the unlicensed conviction there ought to be another way of saying this.
-- Paul Celan -
One hundred years ago, if someone said, 'damn,' people would take notice. Now, you can say almost anything. Secrets are the same way. Once upon a time when a secret was revealed, people paid an enormous amount of attention to it.
-- Paul Levinson -
Once upon a time there was a Martian named Valentine Michael Smith.
-- Robert A. Heinlein -
The trouble is now, with rock'n'roll and stuff, it gets so big that it loses what once upon a time was a magnificent thing, where it was special and quite elusive and occasionally a little sinister and it had its own world nobody could get in.
-- Robert Plant -
Once upon a time, man had a love affair with fire.
-- Robert R. McCammon -
Our story is a 'once upon a time', but it's not a 'happy ever after'.
-- Rupert Sanders -
I've nothing against the Queen personally: I had lunch at the Palace once upon a time.
-- Seamus Heaney -
Once upon a time, there were only three or four dominant women. Now, there are 10 to 15 who can vie for a Grand Slam.
-- Stephane Simian -
Happily ever after doesn't begin with Once upon a time: it begins with Now.
-- Stephen Mitchell -
Once upon a time . . .†“In the beginning was . . .†That’s the way it always starts off. Every story, gospel, history, chronicle, myth, legend, folktale, or old wives’ tale blues riff begins with “Woke up this mornin’. . . .
-- Steven Tyler -
Once upon a time fairy tales were told to audiences of young and old alike. It is only in the last century that such tales were deemed fit only for small children, stripped of much of their original complexity, sensuality, and power to frighten and delight.
-- Terri Windling -
Ninety percent of the time, you're going to hear no. It took me seven years to make 'Once Upon a Time... When We Were Colored.' Nobody wanted to see the movie made. I got the movie made.
-- Tim Reid -
Once upon a time, there was a little creature that was rather small and rather wicked and it lived all alone in the woods. The little creature lived in a little den, at the bottom of a little ravine, filled with not-at-all little brambles and on the edge of a forest that could only be described as really freakin' huge.
-- Ursula Vernon -
Once upon a time, began the story of you.Many perilous, wonderful, harrowing, brilliant, delightful, profound things happened.And yet—the most exciting twists and best turns are yet to come. And it absolutely does not matter how old or young you are.Like a bright carpet of wonders, enjoy the unrolling of your story.
-- Vera Nazarian -
Once upon a time I was such a good liar; I could talk the fish right into my mouths.
-- Vernor Vinge -
Nothing in recent years, on television or anywhere else, has improved on a good story that begins "Once upon a time..."
-- William Bennett -
Every photo, every 'ONCE' in time is also the beginning of a story starting 'once upon a time...' Every photo is the first frame of a movie.
-- Wim Wenders -
Once upon a time, the most successful Democratic leader of them all, FDR, looked south and said I see one third of a nation ill-housed, ill clad, ill nourished. Today our national Democratic leaders look south and say, I see one third of a nation and it can go to hell.
-- Zell Miller -
Once upon a time, I thought that politics was the name we gave to our higher instincts. That was before Margaret Thatcher, who came to power when I was 11 years old.
-- Andrew O'Hagan -
Once upon a time, I awoke in a strange place.
-- Josh Ramsay -
Machines were mice and men were lions once upon a time. But now that it's the opposite it's twice upon a time.
-- Moondog -
Maybe a story will cheer you up... Once there was an ugly barnacle. He was so ugly that everyone died. The End.
-- Patrick Star -
True love isn’t easy, but it must be fought for. Once you find it, it can never be replaced. – Unknown
-- Monica Murphy -
I’m letting God write my love story because once upon a time, I took control of it and it didn’t work well.
-- Nikki Gil -
It's always made me feel odd when I'd get a Dove Award for an instrumental album that has nothing to do with gospel. When I think of gospel music, I think of spreading the Good News with words. But maybe it's just because I was heralded once upon a time as one of theirs. The category of instrumental music seems sort of important to the big picture, but I felt a little embarrassed at the same time.
-- Phil Keaggy -
I suppose once upon a time a Test match was something you looked forward to go and watch. It's very hard to get the quality these days because the focus is more on quantity.
-- David Campese -
Basically, when I hear it now, I don't recognize myself directly in a lot of cases. I was expecting more menace. And the fact that it didn't seem menacing at first troubled me. Then I thought, What the hey, you know? I'm 66 years old, and I could just crack open a beer and listen to it, and it doesn't trouble me that it doesn't kill. Once upon a time, it probably would have.
-- Richard Meltzer
