Best Once Upon A Time Sayings
166 Once Upon A Time quotes by 129 unique authors
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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…
— Robert Plant
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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…
— Erin Morgenstern
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The advice I continually give to young writers is this, "Learn to paint pictures with words." Not just once upon a time, but ... In…
— Brian Jacques
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Once upon a time there was a Queen who had a son so ugly and so misshapen that it was long disputed whether he had…
— Charles Perrault
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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'…
— Lana Parrilla
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Our story is a 'once upon a time', but it's not a 'happy ever after'.
— Rupert Sanders
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Wherever a story comes from, whether it is a familiar myth or a private memory, the retelling exemplifies the making of a connection from one…
— Mary Catherine Bateson
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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…
— Anton du Beke
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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
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Thou shalt not' might reach the head, but it takes 'Once upon a time' to reach the heart.
— Philip Pullman
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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
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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…
— Vera Nazarian
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Once upon a time Apache land would have stretched farther than the horizon, through New Mexico almost to Texas, but as white men found gold,…
— Victoria Finlay
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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,…
— Craig Stone
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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…
— Charles de Gaulle
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A lot of times, I think that what I do for a living has no integrity. 'Once Upon A Time' has changed that to a…
— Ginnifer Goodwin
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Once upon a time, this idea of having a trained, disciplined, cultivated memory was not nearly so alien as it would seem to us to…
— Joshua Foer
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Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all…
— Herbert Hoover
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We don't need lists of rights and wrongs, tables of do's and don'ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten,…
— Philip Pullman
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Cyborg writing must not be about the Fall, the imagination of a once-upon-a-time wholeness before language, before writing, before Man. Cyborg writing is about the…
— Donna J. Haraway
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And if the man who once upon a time had been a boy who promised he'd never fall in love with another girl as long…
— Nicole Krauss
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Once upon a time there lived in Berlin, Germany, a man called Albinus. He was rich, respectable, happy; one day he abandoned his wife for…
— Vladimir Nabokov
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That was the only decision there was once upon a time: what to do with the night.
— Harry Crews
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Never forget that once upon a time, in an unguarded moment, you recognized yourself as a friend.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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once upon a time all the rivers combined to protest against the action of the sea in making their waters salt. "When we come to…
— Aesop
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