It is so strange, to encounter an ex. It's as if you're in a foreign film, and what you're saying face-to-face has nothing to do with the subtitles flowing beneath you. We are so careful not to touch, although once upon a time, I slept plastered to him in our bed, like lichen on a rock. We are two strangers who knows every shameful secret, every hidden freckle, every fatal flaw in each other.
There was no "before" the beginning of our universe, because once upon a time there was no time.
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.
Once upon a time, Sleeping Beauty decided to take a nap from which she would never wake up.
Happily ever after doesn't begin with Once upon a time: it begins with Now.
Once upon a time, government budgets were balanced, our money was sound, the streets were safe, and taxes imposed by all levels of government took less than 10% of our income.
Once upon a time wasn't as long ago as it used to be.
When I used Claudia [Cardinale] for example, in Once Upon a Time in the West, she represented the birth of American matriarchy. Because women had enormous weight in America.
Maybe a story will cheer you up. . . Once there was an ugly barnacle. He was so ugly that everyone died. The End.
Even in the Future the Story Begins with Once Upon a Time.
Once upon a time there was a lady. She had no children, and no happiness either. And at first she cried for a long time, but then she became wicked.
Once upon a time I owned a watermelon.
Once upon a time there was a Once upon a time there was a Once upon a time there was a Stop this. It's undignified.
Once upon a time, something happened, and it was better than something not happening. The end.
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.
Once upon a time fairy tales were told to audiences of young and old alike. It is only in the last century that such tales were deemed fit only for small children, stripped of much of their original complexity, sensuality, and power to frighten and delight.
Thou Shalt Not is soon forgotten, but Once Upon a Time is forever.
Your life at this exact moment is a direct result of choices you made once upon a time. Thirty minutes or 30 year ago.
When you take a child who's hollering like hell, sit him on your knee, and say "once upon a time", you stop him hollering. As long as you go on telling him a story, he will listen. Novelists who neglect this fundamental effect do so at their peril. They become what is known as the experimental novelist, and an experimental novel is not really a novel at all.
Once upon a time, an angel and a devil held a wishbone between them. And its snap split the world in two.
