Thou Shalt Not is soon forgotten, but Once Upon a Time is forever.
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.
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.
Once upon a time I owned a watermelon.
Once upon a time they had some bad luck, and they blame everything on that.
One hundred years ago, if someone said, 'damn,' people would take notice. Now, you can say almost anything. Secrets are the same way. Once upon a time when a secret was revealed, people paid an enormous amount of attention to it.
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.
Never forget that once upon a time, in an unguarded moment, you recognized yourself as a friend.
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.
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 is now.
Once upon a time, something happened, and it was better than something not happening. The end.
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.
Once upon a time freedom used to be life-now it's money. I guess the world really do change.
Once upon a time humans faced each other and pulled thoughts from minds, advanced rapidly, revolutionised industry and evolved explosively. Then one day they stopped, and stared at a box. They grew fat and awkward in public, stopped expressing emotions and couldn't figure out how to reverse it: they reinvented themselves from Emperors back into prawns, because someone turned the TV on.
Everything, everything seemed once-upon-a-time.
Once upon a time lasts forever
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.
Once upon a time we were just plain people. But that was before we began having relationships with mechanical systems. Get involved with a machine and sooner or later you are reduced to a factor.
To Grandma: Once upon a time, there was a boy who flew.
