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.

Anna Pavlova

Once upon a time the English knew who they were.

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.

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.

Lorraine Hansberry

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

Francesca Lia Block

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

Charles Dickens

I distress you; I draw fast to an end.

Sarah Monette

The fountain of youth is like the monkey's paw in the W. W. Jacobs story. It never ends well.

Tom Guiry

I work in a hospital as a patient transporter to make ends meet for my three kids.

Tom Mison

Actors always lie about horse-riding, and it ends terribly. I can horse-ride... ish.

Brian Eno

Also something that you don't have to listen to from beginning to end - you can enter at any point and leave at any point.

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.

Michael Meacher

We did fail last night. It is a tragedy, but it's a reversible tragedy and we will now put together those last final loose ends that we didn't have the time to do last night.

Kofi Annan

Time and again, when member states and the governments are faced with an insoluble problem, and they're under pressure to do something, that something usually ends up being referred to the U.N.

Alan Moore

Nothing ends, Adrian. Nothing ever ends.

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.

Hank Azaria

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

Mitch Albom

Something is always happening somewhere.

Orson Welles

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

Jonathan Safran Foer

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

Rachel Cohn

So much is happening and yet nothing at all.

Sri Aurobindo

Live within; be not shaken by outward happenings.