Ninety percent of the time, you're going to hear no. It took me seven years to make 'Once Upon a Time. . . When We Were Colored. ' Nobody wanted to see the movie made. I got the movie made.
It's always made me feel odd when I'd get a Dove Award for an instrumental album that has nothing to do with gospel. When I think of gospel music, I think of spreading the Good News with words. But maybe it's just because I was heralded once upon a time as one of theirs. The category of instrumental music seems sort of important to the big picture, but I felt a little embarrassed at the same time.
I’m letting God write my love story because once upon a time, I took control of it and it didn’t work well.
Once upon a time, a little girl was raised by monsters. But angels burned the doorways to their world, and she was all alone.
Once upon a time I was riding on the top of a First Avenue bus, when I heard a mythical housewife say to another, "Molly, my dear, I would have bought that new brand of toilet soap if only they hadn't set the body copy in ten point Garamond. " Don't you believe it. What really decides consumers to buy or not to buy is the content of your advertising, not its form.
Once upon a time people talked about the infallibility of the pope; today it is that of the merchant which they wish to establish.
Once upon a time. . . the only autonomous intelligences we humans knew of were us humans. We thought then that if humankind ever devised another intelligence that it would be the result of a huge project. . . a great mass of silicon and ancient transistors and chips and circuit boards. . . a machine with lots of networking circuits, in other words, aping-if you will pardon the expression-the human brain in form and function. Of course, AIs did not evolve that way. They sort of slipped into existence when we humans were looking the other way.
Maybe a story will cheer you up. . . Once there was an ugly barnacle. He was so ugly that everyone died. The End.
Never forget that once upon a time, in an unguarded moment, you recognized yourself as a friend.
Writing is storytelling. No matter how you slice it, you're saying, 'Once upon a time. ' That's what writing is all about.
Once upon a time the English knew who they were.
Once upon a time, an angel and a devil fell in love. It did not end well.
It was not once upon a time, but a certain time in history, before anyone knew what was happening, that Walt Disney cast a spell on the fairy tale, and he has held it captive ever since.
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.
There is no such thing as a happy ending. I never met a single one to equal "Once upon a time.
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.
Once upon a time," he said out loud to the darkness. He said these words because they were the best, the most powerful words that he knew and just the saying of them comforted him.
Our story is a 'once upon a time', but it's not a 'happy ever after'.
Once upon a time. . . What time are we upon and where do I belong?
