Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles de Lint

Once upon a time there was what there was, and if nothing had happened there would be nothing to tell.

Diane Setterfield

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.

Dan Harmon

Once upon a time, something happened, and it was better than something not happening. The end.

Anne Tyler

Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered she had turned into the wrong person.

Anna Pavlova

Once upon a time the English knew who they were.

George Burns

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.

Kate DiCamillo

The shapes arranged themselves into words, and the words spelled out a delicious and wonderful phrase: Once upon a time.

Lorraine Hansberry

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

Paul Celan

rush of pine scent (once upon a time), the unlicensed conviction there ought to be another way of saying this.

Charles Dickens

I distress you; I draw fast to an end.

Alan Moore

Nothing ends, Adrian. Nothing ever ends.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

God and I; here is the beginning and the end of personal religion.

Diane von Furstenberg

I can honestly say that I understand women very well. If you understand yourself, you understand women, because, in the end, all women are the same.

Sean Ross

When you talk to guys in the record industry you do hear a lot of, 'Wow, she's 30, she's 35,' as if that completely ends any discussion.

Kurt Vonnegut

They like life alright, but that they would like it even better if they could know that it was going to end sometime.

Beyonce Knowles

Me, myself and I. That's all I got in the end.

David Hume

The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness

Audrey Hepburn

I've always had- how shall I say it? -the prize at the end. My whole life shows that.

Ann Brashares

Time is what keeps things from happening all at once.

Lillian Hellman

You don't always know how to do things when they're happening.

Mitch Albom

Something is always happening somewhere.

Hank Azaria

Politics is topical - it's what's happening now, and we can either respond in the present or avoid it.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Things were happening around us, but nothing was happening between us.

Orson Welles

What's happening now is what happened before, and often what's going to happen again sometime or other

Sri Aurobindo

Live within; be not shaken by outward happenings.

Rachel Cohn

So much is happening and yet nothing at all.