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Once again, there was talk of winning every game, and once again, we proved to be human, because an oblong ball takes funny bounces. — Michael Pinball Clemons

Once upon a time there was a little prince who lived on a planet scarcely bigger than himself and who had need for a friend. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Nowadays in pop, there's not a lot of men that are singing big and loud and high - it's not as common as it once was. — Adam Lambert

It is just that she was fifteen once for the first time, and Peter walked across her heart and left his footprints there. — Jodi Lynn Anderson

In 19 years Stockton never once lost a suicide drill in practice. Well, there was one day. He was sick. But he still ran it — Jerry Sloan

Yes: I was down there once, and for a good while afterward I could call up the sight of it in winter. But now it's all snowed under. — Edith Wharton

Once I left out what I then considered my best line because there was a suspected column rat in the house. — Dick Cavett

And there was a voice, a high clear, female voice, which said "Ow", and then, very quietly, it said "Fuck", and then it said "Ow", once more. — Neil Gaiman

Don't let it be forgot, that once there was a spot, for one brief shining moment, that was known as Camelot. — Alan Jay Lerner

I visit India at least once a year, though surrounding the making of 'Midnight's Children' I was there a lot more. — Satya Bhabha

Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering. — Nicole Krauss

At least, for once I was there for her. I didn't fail her. She wasn't alone. - Duke — Stephanie Witter

Once we destroyed the Saddam regime, we knew there was going to be a civil war. — William Odom

Once Liverpool had asked me to sign again, there was no hesitation. — Jamie Redknapp

After all, once there was a girl named Lucy who loved her family, old and new.
It's not the type of love that ends. — Emery Lord

Once upon a time there was a little blackbird, pushed out of the nest, unwanted. — Amy Harmon

Once you'd resolved to go, there was nothing to it at all. — Jeannette Walls

Sport can create hope, where once there was only despair — Nelson Mandela

There was once a community of scoundrels, that is to say, they were not scoundrels, but ordinary people. — Franz Kafka

I knew there was a story; once you find a dog with a fork through it, you know there's a story there. — Mark Haddon

Someone once said, 'That place is engulfed in darkness'- however that does in no way mean that there was never any light. — Jun Mochizuki

Or at the very least, you'll remember that there once was a moment. And that it was perfect. — Jessica Brody

Moti' Once upon a time there was a — Andrew Lang

My wife once said that if men had to worry about who was going to clean up the mess, there'd be a lot less violence in the world. — Donna Ball

Man was engaged in a mad scramble for power and knowledge, but nowhere is there any hint of what he meant to do with it once he had attained it. He — Clifford D. Simak

Someone once said there was no statute of limitations on the sins of youth. — Kathleen O'Brien

I believed that once we got to the Moon, there was no stopping us. But in fact, we did stop. — Peter Diamandis

Once I was free; there was no cage that could bind me, and I had yet to create my box of numbness within my mind to be my silent protector. — J.D. Stroube

You only get married the first time once. There was the philosophy of a generation wrapped up in a tidy little sentence — Carrie Vaughn

Once you surrender to hope, its a long road back to reason. There was a certain tone of self-loathing in the way Crest said it. — Benjamin Wood

I heard someone say once that hindsight was a wonderful thing, that without it there would be no history. — Kate Atkinson

Once upon a time there was a beautiful Indian maiden, of course. — Stephen Crane

Now and then it's good to list all the things you regularly do for which there was once a good reason. — Robert Breault

Once upon a time there was a musician who slew his four cats, stuffed them in a garbage can, left the building, and went to visit friends. — Gunter Grass

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. — Tamar Jacoby

Once there was a tree, and she loved a little boy. — Shel Silverstein

Once upon a time there was no Time. — John D. Barrow

Once upon a time there was a young lady who lived in a marsh, and her name was Poison. — Chris Wooding

Once upon a time there was a Martian named Valentine Michael Smith. — Robert A. Heinlein

The reason there was no name for such distant relatives was because sane people would have no interest in distinguishing them from anyone else. "Once — Greg Egan

I do think there are trends in your life once you've been auditioning long enough. I was the angry teenager and then the sweet victim. — Merritt Wever

It was the kind of knowledge that, once it enters you, seems like it's lived there forever. — Marie Rutkoski

That was an idea I didn't want to have. But you can't erase a thought; once you've had it, it's there to stay. — Charlaine Harris

Odd how the impossible negation of death - the sudden absence of life where once there was promise - can stimulate an early philosophical bent. — Bruce Duffy

Once again there was the desert, and that only. — Stephen King

Once there was The People - Terror gave it birth. — Rudyard Kipling

Once there was a darkness, a deep and endless night, you gave me everything you had and oh, you gave me light — Sarah McLachlan

Once upon a time there was a pair of pants. — Ann Brashares

Proving once again that there was no escape from recurrence. — Salman Rushdie

Once I decided to retire from bikes, there was no thought to go racing again. I wanted to have a full year off and maybe even see the world a bit. — Casey Stoner

Once there was you and me
We were lovers
We were friends
Before life changed
Before we were strangers
Do you still think of me? — Renee Carlino

A king there was once reigning, Who had a goodly flea, Him loved he without feigning, As his own son were he! — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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. — Diane Setterfield

Once upon a time there was a girl who was special. This is not her story. Unless you count the part where I killed her. — R. J. Anderson

He knew he could always be smart later, if that turned out to be a better strategy. But once you admitted to being smart, there was no going back. — Orson Scott Card

Once there was, once there wasn't, God's creature were as plentiful as grains and talking too much was a sin. — Elif Shafak

There was a time I used to cry, but that was another lifetime ago. My heart was broken just once. But completely. As — Lisa Lutz

There was no sign of any life, just erratic hints of a faded sun peeking down with sorrow on the dead world it once nourished. — C.J. Anderson

There once was an old man of Lyme who married three wives at a time when asked, 'Why a third?' he replied 'One's absurd! and bigamy, sir, is a crime!' — William Cosmo Monkhouse

Somebody once asked me how I found Peter Jackson, and I said: 'Well, I parted his hair, and there he was.' — Christopher Lee

Once, oh marvelous once, there was a rabbit who found his way home. — Kate DiCamillo

Once upon a time there was a huge family of children; and they were terribly, terribly naughty. — Christianna Brand

Poor comfort all comfort: once what the mouse had spared
Was enough, was delight, there where the heart was at home — Ruth Pitter

In the rotation of crops there was a recognised season for wild oats; but they were not to be sown more than once. — Edith Wharton

Once upon a time there was an eighteen-year-old girl who dragged her butt out of bed and hauled it all the way to school on a sunny day in May. — Laurie Halse Anderson

I didn't like where I once was, so I promised myself I wouldn't be back there. — Ray Lewis

Once I unlocked the mystery of the alphabet that led to words, a multitude of words connecting me to the world, there was no stopping me. — Gloria Naylor

Only the keeper sees
that,where the ring-dove broods
and the badgers roll at ease,
there was once a road through the woods — Rudyard Kipling

Once there was a girl named Riley, the story began. Her heart was a secret garden, its stone walls cracked and weathered. And it was hungry. p160 — Scott Westerfeld

There was something built into the human brain by natural selection which was once useful, and which now manifests itself as religion. — Richard Dawkins

You couldn't take two roads. And once you were on one, there was no going back. — Kami Garcia

Maybe a story will cheer you up ... Once upon a time there was an ugly barnacle. It was so ugly that everyone died. The end. — Patrick Star

Once I got in the public eye there was no going back. — Shayne Ward

There once was a woman named Story Easton who couldn't decide if she should kill herself, or eat a double cheeseburger. — Elizabeth Leiknes

Once upon a time,
there was a Zen sign
at every small railway crossing in America

Stop. Look. And listen. — Dick Allen

Until then, there is joy, which by the way does not, as was once thought, require contrast with fear and pain to keep its zing. — Dean Koontz

Though it might be nice to imagine there once was a time when man lived in harmony with nature, it's not clear that he ever really did. — Elizabeth Kolbert

She knew he was as attracted to her as she was to him, yet he wouldn't go there. Not even once they'd stopped — Kaylea Cross

Once I came to acting, it was almost a thing where there weren't enough hours in the day to work on stuff because I was so passionate about it. — Aaron Tveit

That's when I decided once and for all that we were doomed. It was that or I would die right there and then. — C.V. Hunt

You said to us once before," said Hermione quietly, "that there was time to turn back if we wanted to. We've had time, haven't we? — J.K. Rowling

There was no 'before' the beginning of our universe, because once upon a time there was no time. — John D. Barrow

Even when I retired, there was part of me that didn't want to retire. But once you decide it's time to move on then you have to stick with it. — John Elway

Someone once asked him if there was any sport he didn't like, and he replied "Politics. They should stop showing that on TV. — Fredrik Backman

Once there was a man who was afraid of his shadow.
Then he met it.
Now he glows in the dark. — Ben Loory

Like a lot of stupid people, it took a great deal to get an idea into the king's head, but once there, there was no shifting it. — Richard Killeen

It hurts every day, the absence of someone who was once there. — Marie Lu

ONCE UPON A TIME when the world was young there was a Martian named Smith.Valentine Michael Smith was as real as taxes but he was a race of one. — Michael Jackson

There was once a young man who wished to gain his Heart's Desire. — Neil Gaiman

Someone once told me that there is more to life than golf. I think it was my ex-wife. — Bruce Lansky

There once was a hero who flew too close to the sun. His wings of wax fell apart and he plummeted to the earth. — Hiromu Arakawa

They had spoken once, but there is not need for speech if it is only a habit anyay. Kino sighed with satisfaction
and that was conversation. — John Steinbeck

There once was a man who was sore
'Cuz his wife wouldn't open the door.
Celibacy
is just not for me
Let me in, you cock-teasing whore. — Jake Wizner

Once upon a time there was a girl named Debbie Jacobs and a boy named Teddy Dennis. — Rick Remender

Once we erase ourselves, then there's no eraser. There never was anyone to erase. We've awakened from the dream and the dream has faded. — Frederick Lenz

There was never anything I wanted to do more than play tennis. Never once walked out there and thought, 'I wish I was doing something else.' Not once. — Jimmy Connors

There was a faded brown stain on the carpet and I wondered if a patient had once taken a shit in here in the middle of a session. I — David Wong

Once upon a time, there was a man as great as the gods ...
But even the great can tremble with fear.
Even the great can fall — Mary E. Pearson

Once upon a time there was a dream.
Now we have only to draw it. — Jenika Ioffreda

Once upon a time there was a
Once upon a time there was a
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Stop this. It's undignified. — N.K. Jemisin