Fortunetelling Quotes

#1. Being a visionary is a new profession, but it is really just a variant on fortunetelling, which may be the world's oldest. And its marketing appeal is similar - people will pay for reassurance about the unknown.

Nathan Myhrvold

#2. The future is unknown. Prophecy contaminates it with the past, which is why liberated people do not bother with fortunetelling or astrology, and why the happy traveler wanders and does not let himself be the slave of maps, guidebooks, and schedules, using them but not being used by them.

Alan W. Watts

#3. It happens to be a matter of record that I was first in print with the discovery that the tastelessness of the food offered in American clubs varies in direct proportion to the exclusiveness of the club.

Calvin Trillin

#4. People look ridiculous when they?re in ecstasy ...

David Byrne

#5. Again,' he said and, without waiting for an answer, ran into the growing dark without fear, every single part of his body overwhelmed with the task of being alive.

Kevin Wilson

#6. I suppose it does come with a certain responsibility."
"What does?" asked Annie.
"The magnificence of my person."
"Gah.

Caleb Crain

#7. As the sky prepares to settle its tired, aching feet
into the night's velvet slippers

I settle, into my armchair, soaking the teabag,
of my thoughts, into warm liquidy stars.

Sanober Khan

#8. The future is meant to be a secret for those that can't handle life. Premonitions and the ability to see into the future, are only given to those that have the wisdom to make the right decisions, from which, accepting happiness is the most basic one.

Robin Sacredfire

#9. I'm attracted to playing people who aren't necessarily straightforward.

Felicity Jones

#10. I'm a real believer in dressing tone-on-tone. I'm not saying you need to dress black. Dress just one color so the colors are not breaking your silhouette.

Nina Garcia

#11. Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year.

Franklin Pierce Adams