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"!
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.
Once upon a time, began the story of you. Many perilous, wonderful, harrowing, brilliant, delightful, profound things happened. And yet—the most exciting twists and best turns are yet to come. And it absolutely does not matter how old or young you are. Like a bright carpet of wonders, enjoy the unrolling of your story.
Nothing in recent years, on television or anywhere else, has improved on a good story that begins "Once upon a time. . . "
We've strayed into a zone with a high magical index,' he said. 'Don't ask me how. Once upon a time a really powerful magic field must have been generated here, and we're feeling the after-effects. ' Precisely,' said a passing bush.
Once upon a time, fairy tales were AWESOME!
There was no "before" the beginning of our universe, because once upon a time there was no time.
Thou shalt not' might reach the head, but it takes 'Once upon a time' to reach the heart.
Once upon a time there was a fairy godmother, but the rest of the time there was none. This story is about one of those other times.
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.
Maybe a story will cheer you up. . . Once there was an ugly barnacle. He was so ugly that everyone died. The End.
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 lasts forever
Once upon a time the world was sweeter than we knew. Everything was ours; how happy we were then, but then once upon a time never comes again.
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 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.
Just as once upon a time you could make the experience of religion or nature a great metaphor, so now it is with love. It's just not the kind of thing you can put at the center of a work of literature and have it really reveal us to ourselves.
I like that 'once upon a time' quality, where the telling of a tale has an elevated sense of story. There's a whimsical quality to it. Sometimes in fairy tales more things seem possible, even though often they're real world based.
My films are often characterized by the lack of women present in them, except for this last one [Once Upon a Time in America].
We are creatures of story, and the process of changing one mind or the whole world must begin with 'Once upon a time. '
