Once Upon A Time Quotes - Page 8

• I first came to cinema as a passionate filmgoer, when I was a child. Then, when I was a very young man, I became a film critic precisely because of my knowledge of cinema. I did better than others because of this. Then I moved on to screenwriting. I wrote a film with Sergio Leone, 'Once Upon a Time in the West.' And then I moved to directing.

  Dario Argento

  Children, Men, Film Critics

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• 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

  Men, Opposites, Machines

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• Once upon a time, when I was young, people saw a wedding as an event that determined the rest of their life. For a rising number of people today, it is quite normal to "try and err", marry, divorce, marry again.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Divorce, Numbers, People

  Interview with Marcelo Dimentstein, Alberto Senderey, Andy Spokoiny and Shira Shnitzer, leatid.org. February 2009.

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• Once upon a time, there was a boy who learned to read at the age of 5. This changed his life. Owing to the adventure tales he read, he discovered a way to escape from the poor house, the poor country, and the poor reality in which he lived.

  Mario Vargas Llosa

  Country, Adventure, Boys

  "Peruvian Writer Mario Vargas Llosa on the Importance of Literature". Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. May 31, 2012.

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• Once upon a time, about 20 years ago, runners believed they didn't have to do anything but run

  Amby Burfoot

  Running, Years, Runners

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• Once upon a time I owned a watermelon.

  Irving Bacheller

  Book

  Irving Bacheller (2008). “The Light in the Clearing (EasyRead Large Bold Edition)”, p.1, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• 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

  Years, Pie, Hundred

  Maud Lindsay (1913). “A story garden for little children”

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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

  America, Long, Done

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

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• I love being a part of storytelling, so whether I'm getting to do that on Survivor, or do it through kids' adventure books, or directing a movie, it's all sort of the same: Once Upon a Time...

  Jeff Probst

  Book, Adventure, Kids

  "Probst Dishes 'Survivor' Drama, 'Men' Appearance". Interview with Lisa Hirsch, www.etonline.com. November 13, 2013.

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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 you," sad they to the sea, "we are sweet and drinkable; but when once we have mingled with you, our waters become as briny and unpalatable as your own." The sea replied shortly, "Keep away from me, and you'll remain sweet.

  Aesop

  Sweet, Sea, Rivers

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• Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered she had turned into the wrong person.

  Anne Tyler

  Wrong Person, Persons

  Anne Tyler (2015). “Back When We Were Grownups”, Penguin

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• I loved you so much once. I did. More than anything in the whole wide world. Imagine that. What a laugh that is now. Can you believe it? We were so intimate once upon a time I can't believe it now. The memory of being that intimate with somebody. We were so intimate I could puke. I can't imagine ever being that intimate with somebody else. I haven't been.

  Raymond Carver

  Memories, Believe, Laughing

  Raymond Carver (1989). “Elephant and other stories”

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• Once upon a time, I dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither, to all intents and purposes a butterfly. I was conscious only of my happiness as a butterfly, unaware that I was myself. Soon I awaked, and there I was, veritably myself again. Now I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly, dreaming I am a man.

  Zhuangzi

  Dream, Butterfly, Men

  'Chuang Tzu' (1889, translated by H. A. Giles) ch. 2

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• Once upon a time is now.

  Emilie Autumn

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• 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

  Pride, Mirrors, Price Tag

  Bear Grylls (2011). “Mud, Sweat and Tears”, p.232, Random House

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• 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

  Lying, Heart, World

  Patricia A. McKillip (2016). “Dreams of Distant Shores”, p.266, Tachyon Publications

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• Once upon a time I was falling in love, now I'm only falling apart.

  Bonnie Tyler

  Music, Broken Heart, Falling In Love

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• Here and there and not just in books we catch glimpses of a world of once upon a time and they lived happily ever after, of a world where there is a wizard to give courage and a heart, an angel with a white stone that has written on it our true and secret name, and it is so easy to dismiss it all that it is hardly worth bothering to do. ... But if the world of the fairy tale and our glimpses of it here and there are only a dream, they are one of the most haunting and powerful dreams that the world has ever dreamed.

  Frederick Buechner

  Dream, Powerful, Book

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

  William Bennett

  Years, Stories, Television

  William J. Bennett (1993). “Book of Virtues”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• Once upon a time, man had a love affair with fire.

  Robert R. McCammon

  Men, Fire, Affair

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• So here is my story, may it bring Some smiles and a tear or so, It happened once upon a time, Far away, and long ago, Outside the night wind keens and wails, Come listen to me, the Teller of Tales!

  Brian Jacques

  Night, Long Ago, Wind

  Brian Jacques (2005). “Lord Brocktree: A Tale from Redwall”, p.9, Penguin

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• 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

  Sea, Differences, Sailing

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• Once upon a time men were possessed by devils. Now they are not less obsessed by ideas

  Carl Jung

  Spiritual, Men, Ideas

  Carl Gustav Jung (1958). “Psychology and religion: West and East”

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• Be strong and of good courage. You are truly royal spirit daughters of Almighty God. You are princesses, destined to become queens. Your own wondrous story has already begun. Your "once upon a time" is now.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Daughter, Spiritual, Strong

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• Once upon a time, there was a clear set of choices that people made. Now there are so many choices of how to think, how to define ourselves.

  Tamar Jacoby

  Thinking, People, Choices

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