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.

Andy Stanley

I've concluded that while nobody plans to mess up their life, the problem is that a few of us plan not to. That is, we don't put the necessary safeguards in place to ensure a happy ending.

Alexander the Great

True love never has a happy ending, because there is no ending to true love.

Gregory Maguire

Happy endings are still endings.

Jodi Picoult

Everyone deserves a happy ending.

Isaac Asimov

There are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass.

George R. R. Martin

There are no happy endings.

George R. R. Martin

I have an instinctual distrust of conventional happy endings.

Federico Fellini

Marriage, if it is to survive, must be treated as the beginning, not as the happy ending.

Neil Gaiman

Not only are there no happy endings,' she told him, 'there aren't even any endings.

Ben Vereen

I didn't know who Langston Hughes was till he met me backstage.

Daniel Handler

For Beatrice, when we met, my life began. Soon afterwards, yours ended.

C. S. Lewis

Where, except in the present, can the eternal be met?

Anton LaVey

I never met a person who loved everybody I didn't dislike.

John Gibbons

He was outstanding. I still don't know why the Mets got rid of him.

Julio Franco

That was awesome. They cheered more for Puerto Rico than they did the Mets. I thought this was supposed to be a Mets town?

Bob Brown

I have never met a person in whom I did not see myself reflected.

Doris Lessing

Whenever I met anyone who knew anything, I would bore them stiff until they told me what they knew.

Dr. Seuss

And what would you do if you met a jibboo?