100+ Once Upon A Time Quotes | InspiringQuotes.us

source: "Snow White & The Huntsman director Rupert Sanders is living the fairy tale". Interview with Francesca Babb, www.theguardian.com. June 01, 2012.

topic: Once Upon A Time, Stories, Ever After, Happy Ever After

I've nothing against the Queen personally: I had lunch at the Palace once upon a time.

- Seamus Heaney

topic: Queens, Lunch, Once Upon A Time

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

topic: Once Upon A Time, Four, Three

Happily ever after doesn't begin with Once upon a time: it begins with Now.

- Stephen Mitchell

source: Stephen Mitchell (1999). “The Frog Prince: A Fairy Tale for Consenting Adults”, Harmony

topic: Once Upon A Time, Ever After, Happily Ever After

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

topic: Children, Once Upon A Time, Delight

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

topic: Years, Once Upon A Time, Seven, Seven Years

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

topic: Once Upon A Time, Wicked, Littles

Once upon a time, began the story of you.Many perilous, wonderful, harrowing, brilliant, delightful, profound things happened.And yetâ€”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

topic: Profound, Once Upon A Time, Doe

Once upon a time I was such a good liar; I could talk the fish right into my mouths.

- Vernor Vinge

topic: Liars, Once Upon A Time, Mouths, Good Liar

Nothing in recent years, on television or anywhere else, has improved on a good story that begins "Once upon a time..."

- William Bennett

topic: Years, Once Upon A Time, Television, Good Story

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

topic: Once Upon A Time, Firsts, Stories

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

source: "Meet the Press" with Tim Russert, votesmart.org. November 2, 2003.

topic: Successful, Leader, Once Upon A Time, Democratic Leaders

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

source: "Looking back on New Labour" by Andrew O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. April 3, 2010.

topic: Years, Names, Once Upon A Time

Once upon a time, I awoke in a strange place.

- Josh Ramsay

source: "Fictional character: the Lost Prince". "Marianas Trench: Ever After", www.imdb.com. 2012.

topic: Strange Places, Once Upon A Time, Strange

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

topic: Men, Opposites, Once Upon A Time

Maybe a story will cheer you up... Once there was an ugly barnacle. He was so ugly that everyone died. The End.

- Patrick Star

topic: Cheer, Once Upon A Time, Stories, Starfish, Barnacles

True love isn’t easy, but it must be fought for. Once you find it, it can never be replaced. – Unknown

- Monica Murphy

source: Monica Murphy (2016). “The Drew + Fable Series 4-Book Bundle: One Week Girlfriend, Second Chance Boyfriend, Three Broken Promises, Four Years Later”, p.371, Bantam

topic: Love Is, Once Upon A Time, Easy

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

topic: Letting Go, Writing, Once Upon A Time

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

topic: Thinking, Awards, Once Upon A Time, Gospel Music, Instrumental Music

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

topic: Focus, Once Upon A Time, Quality

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

source: Source: therumpus.net

topic: Beer, Years, Once Upon A Time, Expecting More

Once upon a time there were three little foxes Who didn't wear stockings, and they didn't wear sockses, But they all had handkerchiefs to blow their noses, And they kept their handkerchiefs in cardboard boxes.

- A. A. Milne

source: A. A. Milne (2011). “When We Were Very Young”, p.48, Egmont UK

topic: Blow, Once Upon A Time, Foxes, Stockings, Handkerchiefs

Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time.

- Charles de Gaulle

topic: Country, Once Upon A Time, France

There is no such thing as a happy ending. I never met a single one to equal "Once upon a time.

- Stephen King

topic: Once Upon A Time, Happy Endings, Mets

To Grandma: Once upon a time, there was a boy who flew.

- Chris Colfer

topic: Grandma, Boys, Once Upon A Time, Literary Love, Short Sweet Love

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

topic: Wife, Once Upon A Time, Stories, Old Wives Tales, Folktales

Once upon a time' lasts forever.

- Philip Pullman

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Forever, Once Upon A Time, Lasts, Books And Reading, Rights And Wrongs

'Thou shalt not' might reach the head, but it takes 'Once upon a time' to reach the heart.

- Philip Pullman

source: "Opinion: The moral's in the story, not the stern lecture". www.independent.co.uk. July 17, 1996.

topic: Heart, Once Upon A Time, Might

For every once upon a time there must be a story to follow, because if a story doesn't, something else will, and it might not be as harmless as a story.

- Philip Pullman

topic: Once Upon A Time, Stories, Might

Surrounded by stories surreal and sublime, I fell in Love in the Library once upon a time.

- Jimmy Buffett

source: Song: Love In The Library, Album: Fruitcakes, 1994

topic: Once Upon A Time, Sublime, Library

It is so strange, to encounter an ex. It's as if you're in a foreign film, and what you're saying face-to-face has nothing to do with the subtitles flowing beneath you. We are so careful not to touch, although once upon a time, I slept plastered to him in our bed, like lichen on a rock. We are two strangers who knows every shameful secret, every hidden freckle, every fatal flaw in each other.

- Jodi Picoult

source: Jodi Picoult (2011). “Sing You Home: A Novel”, p.240, Simon and Schuster

topic: Rocks, Two, Once Upon A Time, Subtitles, Freckles

Just so you know, when they say "Once upon a time” . . . they’re lying

- Jodi Picoult

source: Jodi Picoult, Samantha van Leer (2013). “Between the Lines”, p.334, Simon and Schuster

topic: Lying, Once Upon A Time, Between The Lines

What actresses do today when they appear on the screen is what they did once upon a time for getting to appear on the screen.

- George Burns

topic: Once Upon A Time, Today, Actresses

Once upon a time the plural of 'wizard' was 'war'.

- Terry Pratchett

topic: War, Once Upon A Time, Wizards

We've strayed into a zone with a high magical index,' he said. 'Don't ask me how. Once upon a time a really powerful magic field must have been generated here, and we're feeling the after-effects.' Precisely,' said a passing bush.

- Terry Pratchett

source: Terry Pratchett (2012). “The Wit and Wisdom of Discworld”, p.5, Harper Collins

topic: Powerful, Feelings, Once Upon A Time

Once upon a time, novelists of the 19th century, such as Charles Dickens, published in serial form.

- Margaret Atwood

topic: Once Upon A Time, Novelists, Century, Dickens

Once upon a time, Sleeping Beauty decided to take a nap from which she would never wake up.

- Rachel Cohn

source: Rachel Cohn (2011). “You Know Where to Find Me”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

topic: Sleep, Naps, Once Upon A Time, Sleeping Beauty

...In the past, as now, [Hollywood] was a stamping ground for tastelessness, violence, and hyperbole, but once upon a time it turned out a product which sweetened the flavor of life all over the world.

- Anita Loos

source: Anita Loos, Ray Pierre Corsini (1985). “Fate keeps on happening: adventures of Lorelei Lee and other writings”

topic: Movie, Past, Once Upon A Time, Hyperbole

Once upon a time the world was round, and you could go on it around and around.

- Gertrude Stein

source: Gertrude Stein, Clement Hurd, Thacher Hurd (2013). “The World Is Round”, p.11, Harper Collins

topic: Once Upon A Time, Goes On, World

Once upon a time we did not focus on a president's private life.

- Tom Ford

topic: Focus, Once Upon A Time, President

Once upon a time I was riding on the top of a First Avenue bus, when I heard a mythical housewife say to another, "Molly, my dear, I would have bought that new brand of toilet soap if only they hadn't set the body copy in ten point Garamond." Don't you believe it. What really decides consumers to buy or not to buy is the content of your advertising, not its form.

- David Ogilvy

topic: Believe, Once Upon A Time, Riding

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

topic: Data, People, Once Upon A Time, Powerpoint

Once upon a time, government budgets were balanced, our money was sound, the streets were safe, and taxes imposed by all levels of government took less than 10% of our income.

- Harry Browne

topic: Government, Once Upon A Time, Liberty

Everything, everything seemed once-upon-a-time.

- Haruki Murakami

source: Haruki Murakami (1993). “Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World: A Novel”, Vintage

topic: Once Upon A Time

Just as once upon a time you could make the experience of religion or nature a great metaphor, so now it is with love. It's just not the kind of thing you can put at the center of a work of literature and have it really reveal us to ourselves.

- Vivian Gornick

source: Source: www.believermag.com

topic: Once Upon A Time, Literature, Kind

Money has lost its narrative quality the way painting did once upon a time. Money is talking to itself.

- Don DeLillo

source: Don DeLillo (2011). “Cosmopolis”, p.64, Pan Macmillan

topic: Talking, Once Upon A Time, Quality

When you take a child who's hollering like hell, sit him on your knee, and say "once upon a time", you stop him hollering. As long as you go on telling him a story, he will listen. Novelists who neglect this fundamental effect do so at their peril. They become what is known as the experimental novelist, and an experimental novel is not really a novel at all.

- William Golding

source: Source: www.teachingbooks.net

topic: Children, Long, Once Upon A Time

Once upon a time, I dreamed of becoming a great man. Later, a good man. Now, finally, I find it difficult enough and honor enough to be -- a man.

- Edward Abbey

source: Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.26, RosettaBooks

topic: Men, Once Upon A Time, Good Man

Once upon a time refugee meant somebody who has a refuge, found a place, a haven where he could find refuge.

- Elie Wiesel

source: Source: www.savetibet.org

topic: Once Upon A Time, Found, Refugee

India does not need to become anything else. India must become only India. This is a country that once upon a time was called 'the golden bird'. We have fallen from where we were before. But now we have the chance to rise again. If you see the details of the last five or ten centuries, you will see that India and China have grown at similar paces. Their contributions to global GDP have risen in parallel, and fallen in parallel. Today's era once again belongs to Asia. India and China are both growing rapidly, together. That is why India needs to remain India.

- Narendra Modi

topic: Country, Once Upon A Time, Together

Once upon a time, I did not live in Shady Pines. Once upon a time, my name was not Alice. Once upon a time, I didn't know how lucky I was.

- Elizabeth Scott

source: Elizabeth Scott (2009). “Living Dead Girl”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

topic: Names, Once Upon A Time, Lucky

Your life at this exact moment is a direct result of choices you made once upon a time. Thirty minutes or 30 year ago.

- Sarah Ban Breathnach

source: Sarah Ban Breathnach (2006). “Moving on: Creating Your House of Belonging with Simple Abundance”, p.99, Meredith Books

topic: Years, Choices, Once Upon A Time

Once upon a time, an angel lay dying in the mist. And a devil knelt over him and smiled.

- Laini Taylor

source: Laini Taylor (2011). “Daughter of Smoke and Bone: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.170, Hachette UK

topic: Angel, Once Upon A Time, Dying

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

source: "‘Chips’ Star Erik Estrada Preps For Dance Competition, Takes Our Pop Quiz". Interview with Erin Clements, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 8, 2011.

topic: America, Long, Once Upon A Time, Sergio Leone

When I used Claudia [Cardinale] for example, in Once Upon a Time in the West, she represented the birth of American matriarchy. Because women had enormous weight in America.

- Sergio Leone

source: Interview with Marlaine Glicksman, www.americansuburbx.com. December 28, 2012.

topic: America, Once Upon A Time, Example, Matriarchy, Claudia

You see in Once Upon a Time in the West the whole film moves around her [Claudia Cardinale]. If you take her out, there's no more film. She's the central motor of the entire happening.

- Sergio Leone

source: Interview with Marlaine Glicksman, www.americansuburbx.com. December 28, 2012.

topic: Moving, Once Upon A Time, West, Claudia

My films are often characterized by the lack of women present in them, except for this last one [Once Upon a Time in America].

- Sergio Leone

source: Interview With Marlaine Glicksman, www.americansuburbx.com. December 28, 2012.

topic: America, Once Upon A Time, Lasts

I like that "once upon a time" quality, where the telling of a tale has an elevated sense of story. There's a whimsical quality to it. Sometimes in fairy tales more things seem possible, even though often they're real world based.

- Erin Morgenstern

source: "'The Night Circus' looks to enchant fans of 'Twilight' and 'Harry Potter'". Interview with Christian DuChateau, www.cnn.com. September 19, 2011.

topic: Real, Once Upon A Time, Quality

Once upon a time wasn't as long ago as it used to be.

- Laurell K. Hamilton

topic: Long Ago, Once Upon A Time, Used

Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo

- James Joyce

source: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man ch. 1 (1916)

topic: Baby, Boys, Once Upon A Time, Young Man

Once upon a time . . . What time are we upon and where do I belong?

- Francesca Lia Block

source: Francesca Lia Block (2009). “Witch Baby”, p.5, Harper Collins

topic: Once Upon A Time

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