Once Upon A Time Quotes - Page 8

• 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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• 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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• 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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• We have a thriving subculture of 'independent' American movies that makes an impact on America as a whole roughly equivalent to that of a the modern literary novel. These are the films sincere viewers marry, whereas, once upon a time, movies were a lifetime of one night stands.

  Edward Jay Epstein

  Independent, Night, Impact

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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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• 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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• 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 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 is now.

  Emilie Autumn

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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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• 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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• 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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• When you write your first novel you don't really know what you're doing. There may be writers out there who are brilliant, incisive and in control from their first 'Once upon a time'. I'm not one of them. Every once upon a time for me is another experience of white-water rafting in a leaky inner tube. And I have this theory that while the Story Council has its faults, it does have some idea that if books are going to get written, authors have to be able to write them.

  Robin McKinley

  Book, Writing, Ideas

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• Once upon a time, an angel and a devil fell in love. It did not end well.

  Laini Taylor

  Angel, Devil, Ends

  "Daughter of Smoke and Bone". Book by Laini Taylor, September 27, 2011.

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• 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

  Wife, Stories, Legends

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• 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

  Three, Four, Slam

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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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• 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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• 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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• Read to your children all of the time
  Novels and nursery rhymes
  Autobiographies, even the newspaper
  It doesn't mater; it's quality time
  Because once upon a time
  We grew up on stories in the voices in which they were told
  We need words to hold us and the world to behold us
  For us to truly know our souls

  Taylor Mali

  Children, Voice, Nurse

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