Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Spurgeon

Long ago I ceased to count heads. Truth is usually in the minority in this evil world

Eleanor Porter

I long ago discovered that you can't TELL about Pollyanna. The minute you try to, she sounds priggish and preachy, and--impossible. Yet you and I know she is anything but that.

Eleanor Roosevelt

I have learned long ago to possess my soul in patience and accept the inevitable.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Long ago, I made up my mind that when things were said involving only me, I would pay no attention to them, except when valid criticism was carried by which I could profit.

Dirk Benedict

I am very abnormal... But it wasnt very long ago that I wasnt so abnormal. I was very normal and headed for a lifetime of paying medical bills as proof of my normalcy.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

There was a time when Patience ceased to be a virtue. It was long ago.

Charles M. Schulz

I gave up trying to understand people long ago. Now I let them try to understand me!

Charles Lyell

I long ago suggested the hypothesis, that in the basin of the Thames there are indications of a meeting in the Pleistocene period of a northern and southern fauna.

Betty White

Long ago, I did a five-and-a-half-hour-a-day, six-day-a-week talk show for four years, early on, in Los Angeles - local show. And when you are on that many hours with no script, you know, you get very comfortable, maybe overly comfortable with that small audience.

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.

Margaret Atwood

Once upon a time, novelists of the 19th century, such as Charles Dickens, published in serial form.

Paul Celan

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

Dee Dee Ramone

I used to be a hairdresser.

Diego Luna

Definitely directing is the thing I like the most because this is where everything you know can be used. It's the most personal process ever. It's the most demanding one, but again, rewarding.

Dick Cavett

I'm not freakishly short. I had, on my show, used shortness as a joke subject; it didn't really bother me.

Dennis Miller

I used to be sceptic, but not anymore, because now I am positive that I'm getting screwed.

China Chow

I used to be more glamorous.

Chesley Sullenberger

It's amazing what you can learn to get used to.

Bob Saget

Friend of mine just told me he used to be a bad alcoholic. I calmed him down. Told him he was a good alcoholic just a horrible drinker.

Bing Crosby

I don`t sing anywhere as good as I used to, and I feel sincerely that it`s getting worse.

Beth Broderick

I used to do theater in L.A., but it got to the point where everything was really showcase-y.