Quotes and Sayings About Once Upon A Time
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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
