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“Anyone can have a once-upon-a-time or a happily-ever-after, but it's the journey between that makes the story worth telling.”

Stories Journey Happily Ever After Once Upon A Time Ever After

Author:Chris Colfer

“O foolish writer. Now moves. Even in storytime, dreamtime, once-upon-a-time, now isn't then.”

Moving Time Foolish Once Upon A Time Dreamtime

Book:Tales from Earthsea

Source: Tales from Earthsea

“Once upon a time, people identified the god Neptune as the source of storms at sea. Today we call these storms hurricanes.... The only people who still call hurricanes acts of God are the people who write insurance forms.”

People Writing Stills Today Form Spirituality Sea Source Atheist Storm Bad Ass Hurricanes Once Upon A Time Mind Blowing Neptune

Book:Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries

Source: Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries

“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"!”

Differences Sea Tales Fairy Fairy Tale Sailing Once Upon A Time

Author:Edith Widder

“Once upon a time there were three kittens, and their names were Mitten, Tom Kitten, and Moppet. They had dear little fur coats of their own; and they tumbled about the doorstep and played in the dust.”

Littles Three Names Cat Dear Dust Toms Coats Fur Kitten Once Upon A Time Doorstep Fur Coats Mittens

Book:The Tale of Tom Kitten: Beatrix's Tales

Source: The Tale of Tom Kitten: Beatrix's Tales

“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.”

People Involved Machines Factors Sooner Or Later Get Involved Once Upon A Time

Book:Making Sense

Source: Making Sense

“Once upon a time we did not focus on a president's private life.”

President Focus Private Life Once Upon A Time

Author:Tom Ford

“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.”

World Once Upon A Time

Author:Johnny Mercer

“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.”

“Had I been brighter, the ladies been gentler, the Scotch been weaker, had the gods been kinder, had the dice been hotter, this could have been a one-sentence story: Once upon a time I lived happily ever after.”

Has Beens Stories Sentences Could Have Been Brighter Happily Ever After Once Upon A Time Ever After Dice Kinder Scotch One Sentence Hotter

Author:Mickey Rooney

“This house isn't mine anymore, but the memories are; the memories can't be sold. The building that housed my once-upon-a-time dreams stands for someone else now, as it did for the people before us, and I feel happy to let it go. Happy that I can begin again, anew, though bearing the scars of before. They represent wounds that have healed.”

People Feels I Can Home Dream House Memories Healing Building Mines Wounds Scar Let It Go Healed Once Upon A Time Begin Again

Author:Cecelia Ahern

“There was no "before" the beginning of our universe, because once upon a time there was no time.”

Universe Once Upon A Time

Book:The Origin Of The Universe: Science Masters Series

Source: The Origin Of The Universe: Science Masters Series

“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.”

People Ifs Way Years Said Secret Attention Amount Hundred Years Ago Paid Enormous Damn Once Upon A Time

Author:Paul Levinson

“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.”

Three Four Dominant Once Upon A Time Slam

Author:Stephane Simian

“Once upon a time, there was a clear set of choices that people made. Now there are so many choices of how to think, how to define ourselves.”

People Thinking Made Choices Clear Once Upon A Time

Author:Tamar Jacoby

“Be strong and of good courage. You are truly royal spirit daughters of Almighty God. You are princesses, destined to become queens. Your own wondrous story has already begun. Your "once upon a time" is now.”

Stories Spiritual Spirit Strong Daughter Queens Princess Almighty Royal Destined Once Upon A Time Wondrous Almighty God Good Courage

Author:Dieter F. Uchtdorf

“Once upon a time men were possessed by devils. Now they are not less obsessed by ideas”

Men Ideas Spiritual Devil Obsessed Possessed Once Upon A Time

Book:Psychology and religion: West and East

Source: Psychology and religion: West and East

“Once upon a time I was falling in love, now I'm only falling apart.”

Fall Music Falling In Love Broken Heart Falling Apart Once Upon A Time Total Eclipse

Author:Bonnie Tyler

“Once upon a time a man whose ax was missing suspected his neighbor's son. The boy walked like a thief, looked like a thief and spoke like a thief. But the man found his ax while digging in the valley, and the next time he saw his neighbor's son, the boy walked, looked and spoke like any other child.”

Men Children Political Next Found Boys Saws Missing He Man Son Neighbor Spokes Valleys Thieves Reincarnation Next Time Digging Once Upon A Time

Author:Laozi

“Nothing in recent years, on television or anywhere else, has improved on a good story that begins "Once upon a time..."”

Years Stories Television Insult Good Story Once Upon A Time

Book:Book of Virtues

Source: Book of Virtues

“Once upon a time, I thought faeries lived only in books, old folktales, and the past. That was before they burst upon my life as vibrant, luminous beings, permeating my art and my everyday existence, causing glorious havoc.”

Art Book Past Existence Everyday Glorious Fairy Luminous Once Upon A Time Faerie Havoc Folktales

Author:Brian Froud

“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.”

Years Made Wanted Percent Seven Ninety Seven Years Once Upon A Time

Author:Tim Reid

“Once upon a time, man had a love affair with fire.”

Men Fire Affair Love Affair Once Upon A Time

Author:Robert R. McCammon

“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”

Knows World Needs Children Soul Stories Voice Quality Novel Grew Grew Up Our Children Newspapers Your Children Nurse Rhyme Autobiography Once Upon A Time Nursery Quality Time Nursery Rhymes

Author:Taylor Mali

“Once upon a time, when women were birds, there was the simple understanding that to sing at dawn, and to sing at dusk, was to heal the world through joy. The birds still remember what we have forgotten, that the world is meant to be celebrated.”

World Stills Remember Joy Understanding Simple Bird Forgotten Heal Dawn Meant To Be Once Upon A Time Dusk Heal The World

Author:Terry Tempest Williams

“Man walks the moon but his soul remains riveted to earth. Once upon a time it was the opposite.”

Men Soul Dream Earth Walks Moon Opposites Remains Once Upon A Time

Book:Souls on Fire

Source: Souls on Fire

“Once upon a time, I dreamed of becoming a great man. Later, a good man. Now, finally, I find it difficult enough and honor enough to be -- a man.”

Men Enough Difficult Becoming Honor Great Men Good Man Be A Man Once Upon A Time

Book:A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

“Once upon a time' lasts forever.”

Lasts Forever Once Upon A Time Books And Reading Writers Reading Rights And Wrongs

Author:Philip Pullman

“Children understand that 'once upon a time' refers not only--not even primarily--to the past, but to the impalpable regions of the present, the deeper places inside us where princes and dragons, wizards and talking birds, impassable roads, impossible tasks, and happy endings have always existed, alive and bursting with psychic power.”

Children Past Talking Alive Impossible Bird Tasks Deeper Regions Dragons Psychics Wizards Happy Endings Once Upon A Time Bursting

Author:Stephen Mitchell

“Happily ever after doesn't begin with Once upon a time: it begins with Now.”

Happily Ever After Once Upon A Time Ever After

Book:The Frog Prince: A Fairy Tale for Consenting Adults

Source: The Frog Prince: A Fairy Tale for Consenting Adults

“Once upon a time when there was no time.”

Time Once Upon A Time

Author:John D. Barrow

“Once upon a time there was a crooked tree and a straight tree. And they grew next to each other. And every day the straight tree would look at the crooked tree and he would say, "You're crooked. You've always been crooked and you'll continue to be crooked. But look at me! Look at me!" said the straight tree. He said, "I'm tall and I'm straight." And then one day the lumberjacks came into the forest and looked around, and the manager in charge said, "Cut all the straight trees." And that crooked tree is still there to this day, growing strong and growing strange.”

Looks Said Stills Next Strong Cutting Growing Tree Strange Grew One Day Forests Managers This Day Tall Conformity Look At Me Crooked Once Upon A Time Non Conformity

Author:Tom Waits

“I've nothing against the Queen personally: I had lunch at the Palace once upon a time.”

Queens Lunch Palaces Once Upon A Time

Author:Seamus Heaney

“Once upon a time freedom used to be life-now it's money. I guess the world really do change.”

World Used Used To Be Once Upon A Time

Book:A Raisin in the Sun

Source: A Raisin in the Sun

“Once upon a time, the most successful Democratic leader of them all, FDR, looked south and said I see one third of a nation ill-housed, ill clad, ill nourished. Today our national Democratic leaders look south and say, I see one third of a nation and it can go to hell.”

Looks Said Today Nations Leader Hell Successful Thirds Democratic South Ill Once Upon A Time Go To Hell Democratic Leaders

Author:Zell Miller

“Once upon a time I was such a good liar; I could talk the fish right into my mouths.”

Mouths Fishes Liars Once Upon A Time Good Liar

Book:A Fire Upon The Deep

Source: A Fire Upon The Deep

“Once upon a time . . . What time are we upon and where do I belong?”

Once Upon A Time

Book:Witch Baby

Source: Witch Baby

“Once upon a time people talked about the infallibility of the pope; today it is that of the merchant which they wish to establish.”

People Today Wish Pope Merchants Once Upon A Time Infallibility

Author:Charles Fourier

“Already long ago, from when we sold our vote to no man, the People have abdicated our duties; for the People who once upon a time handed out military command, high civil office, legions — everything, now restrains itself and anxiously hopes for just two things: bread and circuses.”

People Men Long Two Military Duty Office Vote Bread Command Two Things Long Ago Circus Once Upon A Time Legion Bread And Circuses Military Command

Author:Juvenal

“Never, in all my early childhood, did anyone address to me the affecting preamble: 'Once upon a time!' ... I can but think that my parents were in error thus to exclude the imaginary from my outlook upon facts. They desired to make me truthful; the tendency was to make me positive and sceptical. Had they wrapped me in the soft folds of supernatural fancy, my mind might have been longer content to follow their traditions in an unquestioning spirit.”

“I've always felt like I was on the margins. Once upon a time that's what independent used to mean.”

Mean Used Felt Independent Margins Once Upon A Time

Author:John Sayles

“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.”

Knows Feels Looks I Can Enough Pride Quiet Members Mirrors Good Enough Once Upon A Time Tag Price Tag

Book:Mud, Sweat and Tears

Source: Mud, Sweat and Tears

“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.”

Knows Men Dream Purpose Conscious Taoism Butterfly Once Upon A Time Fluttering

Author:Zhuangzi

“Once upon a time there was a Martian named Valentine Michael Smith.”

Time Valentine Once Upon A Time Martians Stranger In A Strange Land

Book:Stranger in a Strange Land

Source: Stranger in a Strange Land

“There's a simple way to look at gender: Once upon a time, someone drew a line in the sans of culture and proclaimed with great self-importance, 'On this site, you are a man; on the other side, you are a woman.' It's time for the winds of change to blow that line away. Simple.”

Men Way Looks Self Culture Sides Lines Simple Wind Importance Blow Gender Site Once Upon A Time Self-importance Simple Ways Winds Of Change

Author:Kate Bornstein

“People often ask authors where their ideas come from, and often authors say they don't know. But I do know about this one. Once upon a time, my wife and I had three small children -- two boys and a girl, just like in the story. And when they were young, we used to tell them a story very like YOU'RE ALL MY FAVORITES.”

People Knows Children Two Ideas Stories Young Used Girl Three Asks Boys Wife Like You My Wife Once Upon A Time Small Child

Book:You're all my favorites

Source: You're all my favorites

“Once upon a time there was a widow who had two daughters. The elder was so much like her, both in looks and character, that whoever saw the daughter saw the mother.”

Looks Two Character Mother Saws Daughter Elders Widows Once Upon A Time Like Her Reconstruction Mother Daughter Two Daughters

Book:The Tales of Mother Goose as First Collected by Charles Perrault in 1696

Source: The Tales of Mother Goose as First Collected by Charles Perrault in 1696

“Once upon a time supporters of the Steinitz-Tarrasch school had a very high opinion of a queen-side pawn majority. Modern strategy on the other hand categorically denies that such a majority is an independent factor of any importance.”

Hands School Sides Opinion Modern Importance Independent Majority Strategy Deny Chess Factors Queens Supporter Once Upon A Time Pawns

Author:Alexander Kotov

“Once upon a time our traditional goal in war and can anyone doubt that we are at war? - was victory. Once upon a time we were proud of our strength, our military power. Now we seem ashamed of it. Once upon a time the rest of the world looked to us for leadership. Now they look to us for a quick handout and a fence-straddling international posture.”

World Looks War Seems Goal Doubt Military Proud Victory International Traditional Ashamed Fence Vietnam War Posture Once Upon A Time Military Power Handouts

Author:Barry Goldwater

“Every photo, every 'ONCE' in time is also the beginning of a story starting 'once upon a time...' Every photo is the first frame of a movie.”

Firsts Stories Starting Once Upon A Time

Author:Wim Wenders

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