Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

John D. Barrow

Once upon a time there was no Time.

Herta Muller

Once upon a time they had some bad luck, and they blame everything on that.

Helen Oyeyemi

That's the ideal meeting...once upon a time, only once, unexpectedly, then never again.

Haruki Murakami

Everything, everything seemed once-upon-a-time.

Jimmy Buffett

Surrounded by stories surreal and sublime, I fell in Love in the Library once upon a time.

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.

Charles de Lint

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

Eartha Kitt

The public has become my fairy godmother.

Charlaine Harris

Maybe she was being so hoity-toity because she didn't have her own fairy godmother.

Allison Pearson

Oh, where is the Fairy Godmother of explanations when you need her?

Jocelyn Moorhouse

I am interested in stories that concern women.

Richard Paul Evans

I've yet to read a love story that compares with mine.

Richelle Mead

But I didn't know about the other story." "What other story?” "About how you and Adrian Ivashkov are—" "No, whatever you heard it’s not true." "But it was really romantic" "Then it’s definitely not true.

Umberto Eco

But the purpose of a story is to teach and to please at once, and what it teaches is how to recognize the snares of the world.

Reza Aslan

No- one is ever told any story but their own.

Rex Stout

Every Sherlock Holmes story has at least one marvelous scene.

Vincente Minnelli

It's the story that counts.

Salman Rushdie

Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another's, were no longer our own, individual, discrete.

Salman Rushdie

Perhaps the story you finish is never the one you begin.