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McGough: I'm sorry. I'm afraid I've caught poetry. Mr Bones: Oh really? Well, don't worry, sir - I used to suffer from short stories. McGough: Really? When? Mr Bones: Oh, once upon a time...

Once upon a time is now.

There is no such thing as a happy ending. I never met a single one to equal "Once upon a time.

I've always felt like I was on the margins. Once upon a time that's what independent used to mean.

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

There were dreams once upon a time, dreams now all but forgotten. On sad days I dust them off and fondle them nostalgically, with a patronizing wonder at the naivete of the youth who dreamed them.

The only 'break' anyone can afford to rely upon is a self-made 'break'.

It is necessary to develop a strategy that utilizes all the physical conditions and elements that are directly at hand. The best strategy relies upon an unlimited set of responses.

We are creatures of story, and the process of changing one mind or the whole world must begin with 'Once upon a time.'

The most important key to achieving great success is to decide upon your goal and launch, get started, take action, move.

The secret is planning your work and working your plan. If you don't know where you are going, how will you know when you arrive? You can't stumble upon your destination.

My voice speaking is a monkey's mouth making little mouth noises that are carrying agree-upon meaning, and it is meaning that matters. Without the meaning one has only little mouth noises

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.

The emergence of consciousness, like the unfolding of a leaf, relies upon restraint.

People think that children don't know anything. It's enough to make you wonder if grownups were ever children once upon a time.

Once upon a time there was a Martian named Valentine Michael Smith.

To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs.

Once upon a time the English knew who they were.

Once upon a time we were all born, popped out like jelly rolls forgetting our fishdom, the pleasuring seas, the country of comfort, spanked into the oxygens of death.

Once upon a time, I thought denial was a river in Egypt. It's actually the attitude of the Abbott government.

Once upon a time men were possessed by devils. Now they are not less obsessed by ideas

Anyone can have a once-upon-a-time or a happily-ever-after, but it's the journey between that makes the story worth telling.

To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities; that is not to be taken seriously in politics.

The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and then to make it the representative of a whole class.

The difference between a fairy tale and a sea tale? A fairy tale starts with "Once upon a time". A sea tale starts with " This ain't no $hit"!

When I used Claudia [Cardinale] for example, in Once Upon a Time in the West, she represented the birth of American matriarchy. Because women had enormous weight in America.

Donning a glove for a backyard toss, or watching a ball game, or just reflecting upon our baseball days, we are players again, forever young.

Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.

I love being a part of storytelling, so whether I'm getting to do that on Survivor, or do it through kids' adventure books, or directing a movie, it's all sort of the same: Once Upon a Time...

All amusements to which virtuous women are not admitted, are, rely upon it, deleterious in their nature.

Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time.

Once upon a time I owned a watermelon.

Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by myself.

In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.

I saw, in looking over Cooper, elements of a comet of 1825 which resemble what I get out for this, from my own observations, but I cannot rely upon my own.

If most men and women were forced to rely upon physical charm to attract lovers, their sexual lives would be not only meager but in a youth-worshiping country like America painfully brief.

Anytime you have to rely upon your enemy for a job you're in bad shape.

Once upon a time' lasts forever.

Let your conscience be your guide.

The words dripped on my consciousness, sank into my being, and carried me away to the magic long ago of once upon a time.

Once upon a time, the sky knew the weight of angel armies on the move, and the wind blew infernal with the fire of their wings.

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

I believe in monogamy if that's what a couple decides upon together, but it all depends on the personal history and culture of the two involved.

Any one reflecting upon the thought he has of the delight, which any present or absent thing is apt to produce in him, has the idea we call love.

Thou Shalt Not is soon forgotten, but Once Upon a Time is forever.

Each time thou wishest to decide upon performing some enterprise, raise the eyes to heaven, pray God to bless thy project; if thou canst make that prayer, accomplish thy work.

Happiness is not fame or riches or heroic virtues, but a state that will inspire posterity to think in reflecting upon our life, that it was the life they would wish to live.

Once upon a time, government budgets were balanced, our money was sound, the streets were safe, and taxes imposed by all levels of government took less than 10% of our income.

I do believe that the buck stops here, that I cannot rely upon public opinion polls to tell me what is right.

A democrat should not rely upon the force of the arms his state could flaunt in the face of the world, but on the moral force his state could put at the disposal of the world.