Once Quotes

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

You can't love anyone that way more than once in a lifetime. It's too hard and it hurts too much when it ends.

My films are often characterized by the lack of women present in them, except for this last one [Once Upon a Time in America].

As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow.

I'm not trying to succeed for the people who are waiting for me to fail. I'm doing it for myself. I'm one for the 'You only live once so you should do as much as you can' sort of thing.

"You only live once" is also an equally compelling reason not to do something

You only live once. Trying to do the right thing for other people often doesnt work out, and you have to follow your own path in order to make things work out best for everyone.

It's sick that I experienced a once in a lifetime love - still as strong as the day it happened - & have been punished every single day since.

I want to encourage public interest in space. I have never let my condition stop me. You only live once.

Once upon a time, there was a clear set of choices that people made. Now there are so many choices of how to think, how to define ourselves.

Once upon a time the plural of 'wizard' was 'war'.

Once upon a time I was such a good liar; I could talk the fish right into my mouths.

I was adored once too.

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

My dreams were at once more fantastic and agreeable than my writings.

When we can find some humor in our upsets, they no longer seem as large or as important as they once did.

Once players have my trust, they have it.

The dearest days in one's life are those that seem very far and very near at once.

Ballroom dancing: it's a wonderful thing at so many levels because you've got to follow the rules. They used to call those rules etiquette once upon a time, but you don't really have that any more.

Luck generally comes to those who look for it, and my notion is that it taps, once in a lifetime, at everybody's door, but if industry does not open it luck goes away.

A Love like this happens but once in a lifetime

The success of I Love Lucy is something that happens only once in a lifetime, if you are fortunate enough to have it happen at all.

Money has lost its narrative quality the way painting did once upon a time. Money is talking to itself.

Once upon a time, I dreamed of becoming a great man. Later, a good man. Now, finally, I find it difficult enough and honor enough to be -- a man.

Once upon a time, I did not live in Shady Pines. Once upon a time, my name was not Alice. Once upon a time, I didn't know how lucky I was.

The truth is, I don't have a real clue what love is - how to find it, how to give it. Once upon a time I thought I knew.

Sergio Leone’s “Once Upon a Time in America” is a brilliant movie. It’s about four hours long, but it’s so well done.

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

Once upon a time, in some out of the way corner of that universe which is dispersed into numberless twinkling solar systems, there was a star upon which clever beasts invented knowing.

Once upon a time Baltimore was necessary.

Once upon a time the world was round, and you could go on it around and around.

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

First love is only once in a lifetime, and it remains only in memory.

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

Once upon a time there was no Time.

Like my old mentor would always say, Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice and I'll be dead.'' Okay, she wasn't a good poet, but that lady could handle her whiskey.

It's amazing to hear proficient musicians play your music. It's a once in a lifetime kind of experience.

A wise man once said that any human being is capable of infinite achievement, so long as it’s not the work they’re supposed to be doing.

Once upon a time, a girl lived in a sandcastle, making monsters to send through a hole in the sky.

Once upon a time, a little girl was raised by monsters. But angels burned the doorways to their world, and she was all alone.

Once upon a time, there were two moons, who were sisters. Nitid was the goddess of tears and life, and the sky was hers. No one worshipped Ellai but secret lovers.

Once upon a time, an angel lay dying in the mist. And a devil knelt over him and smiled.

Once upon a time wasn't as long ago as it used to be.

Once upon a time there were two parents, two children, and a brick house with lilies in the yard. The parents died, the lilies wilted. One child disappeared. Then the other." Pg 225

What do they call it, Y.O.L.A., you only live once? I think people are sort of gravitating towards that.

Once upon a time I would’ve leaped at the rare opportunity of curling up with Mom on the couch. But now it sort of felt like too little too late. I had someone else waiting for me.

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

Once upon a time there was a saucer pie. A saucer pie is one that is baked in a saucer instead of a pan; and if you have never seen one, I hope you will before you are a hundred years old.

Once upon a time, my mother lived in the posh downtown of Homs, Syria. She described my grandfather as a king in a storybook, atop a horse, wearing a didashah and pointing a long arm.

I had always wanted to name a daughter Hailey, after Halley's comet from Once in a Lifetime.