Once Upon A Time Quotes - Page 7

• The words dripped on my consciousness, sank into my being, and carried me away to the magic long ago of once upon a time.

  Peter Abrahams

  Time, Long Ago, Magic

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• Maybe instead of strings it's stories things are made of, an infinite number of tiny vibrating stories; once upon a time they all were part of one big giant superstory, except it got broken up into a jillion different pieces, that's why no story on its own makes any sense, and so what you have to do in a life is try and weave it back together, my story into your story, our stories into all the other people's we know, until you've got something that to God or whoever might look like a letter, or even a whole word.

  Paul Murray

  Numbers, People, Broken

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• The guys that write Once Upon a Time were major writers on Lost, and we had lunch when I started on OUAT and the first thing I said to them was, "I spent five years on Lost, you have to tell me, was my character good or bad?" They looked at me and said, "We have no idea." That's why you have to make your own backstory. I decided Widmore was the evilest of the evil, but in the end, not even the writers knew.

  Alan Dale

  Character, Writing, Years

  "Alan Dale: The Nicest Bad Guy in The Biz". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, www.etonline.com. February 6, 2013.

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• Once upon a time, in some out of the way corner of that universe which is dispersed into numberless twinkling solar systems, there was a star upon which clever beasts invented knowing.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Stars, Clever, Knowing

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• Once upon a time, growing up male gave little boys a sense of certainty about the natural order of things. We had short hair, wore pants, and played baseball. Girls had long hair, wore skirts, and, no matter how hard they tried, always threw a baseball just like a girl.

  Kenneth R. Miller

  Girl, Baseball, Growing Up

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• Once upon a time, my mother lived in the posh downtown of Homs, Syria. She described my grandfather as a king in a storybook, atop a horse, wearing a didashah and pointing a long arm.

  Mona Simpson

  Mother, Horse, Kings

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• I wanted to be a doctor once upon a time, but it turns out you've got to study, and that wasn't going to happen. I had no idea what I was going to do. I had trouble holding jobs because they want you to be on time. That wasn't going to work.

  Bill Murray

  Jobs, Doctors, Ideas

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• Once upon a time we were all born,
  popped out like jelly rolls
  forgetting our fishdom,
  the pleasuring seas,
  the country of comfort,
  spanked into the oxygens of death.

  Anne Sexton

  Country, Oxygen, Sea

  Anne Sexton (1974). “The death notebooks”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• 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

  Blow, Foxes, Three

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

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• ONCE UPON A TIME when the world was young there was a Martian named Smith.Valentine Michael Smith was as real as taxes but he was a race of one.

  Michael Jackson

  Real, Valentine, Race

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

  Gertrude Stein

  Goes On, World, Rounds

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

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• Once upon a time there was a girl who discovered that if she played a certain tune on a jade flute, she could summon up jade gnomes, a peculiar, harmless, but rather creepy looking spirit of the underground. The fact is that many of us have talents like this, but generally never discover them due to lack of opportunity, since one can go one's entire life without playing a jade flute, or discovering that one can speak the language of ground sloths, or turning fruitcake into solid tungsten by singing Sinatra tunes to it under a quarter moon.

  Ursula Vernon

  Girl, Moon, Opportunity

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

  Patrick Star

  Cheer, Stories, Ugly

  "Fictional character: Patrick Star". TV Series "SpongeBob SquarePants" ("Something Smells/Bossy Boots", 2000), www.imdb.com. 1999–.

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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, 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 millions applauded and supported Adolf Hitler; ignorant masses often cannot see the simple truths and evidently they do not have the ability to see the very clear ends! The stupidity of the ignorant masses has been proven thousands of times in the history! Each time they follow the wrong leader and in the end fall in the cesspool!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Fall, Simple, Ignorant Masses

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• 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

  Today, Actresses, Screens

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• 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

  Focus, Quality, Watches

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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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• 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

  Years, Choices, Moments

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

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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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• 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

  America, Lasts, Film

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

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• The American public is a very specialized public. The reason it is taken as a realistic film is because inside the fable, I've put that kind of reality in. And it could easily be called, instead of Once Upon a Time in America, Once Upon a Time There Was a Certain Kind of Cinema. Because it was also an homage to cinema.

  Sergio Leone

  Taken, Reality, America

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

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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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