Quotes About Fortune Cookies

#1. You're not very good at being contemplative," Milo said. "You always sound like some bad caricature of a philosopher, like those fortune cookies with 'Confucius say' or the Nietzsche guy from Mystery Men that's always saying 'when you walk on the ground, the ground walks on you.

Amanda Hocking

#2. Patience, young grasshopper," he teased. "Good things come to those who wait." "How very wise of you," I teased back.
Russ shrugged. "I eat a lot of fortune cookies.

Kelly Oram

#3. Who needs astrology? The wise man gets by on fortune cookies.

Edward Abbey

#4. She takes the fortune cookies from the bottom of the bag and throws them into a glass bowl she keeps in the closet. She has no desire to know what her future might hold.

Alice Hoffman

#5. Fortune cookies are a good idea. If the message is positive, it can make your day a little better.

Yao Ming

#6. Warning: fortune cookies don't care what happens to you.

Mason Cooley

#7. Get a job writing fortune cookies instead. I could try to write really American ones. Already, I've jotted down a few of them. Objects create happiness. The animals are pleased to be of use. Your cities will shine forever. Death will not touch you.

Jenny Offill

#8. I got one entire song from fortune cookies (Land of Sunshine). On another one, I took words from different Frank Sinatra songs and pasted them together. Another one, I was just driving around and there was a piece of paper on the ground, so I stole it.

Mike Patton

#9. I'm a Dom over subs. You have subs?" I shrugged a shoulder. "Are you available?" "Oh fuck!" He literally giggled, like he couldn't believe his good fortune cookies.

Lucian Bane

#10. If someone seems to have changed from one session to another, make sure you haven't changed instead. A warning from his mother, once upon a time, delivered as if she'd upended a box of spy-advice fortune cookies and chosen one at random.

Jeff VanderMeer

#11. Of fortune cookies and tarot cards they have no need: my wheelchair, burn scars, and gnarled hands apparently tell them all they need to know. My future is written on my body.

Alison Kafer

#12. However, he couldn't stand the fortune cookies. His always read, "The fortune you seek is no fortune." Or "Love your neighbor, it keeps the community together." Or "Keep the dreams alive. Don't wake up

Carol Vorvain

#13. Fortune cookies are an American invention, and we gave it to them. The Chinese were probably like, "Uh, we don't want it." And we were like, "It's now part of your ethnic identity.

Jim Gaffigan

#14. God didn't give Moses ten fortune cookies in a to-go box. God didn't lead the Israelites through the wilderness with a neon all-you-can-eat sign. And God doesn't speak to people in bathrooms, public or otherwise.

Geoffrey Wood

#15. Good places for aphorisms: in fortune cookies, on bumper stickers, and on banners flying over the Palace of Free Advice.

Mason Cooley

#16. People think of fortune cookies as being Chinese, but in essence, they are fundamentally American.

Jennifer Lee

#17. God's promises are not fortune cookies. We do not use them in order to get a spiritual "fix" for the day.

Sinclair B. Ferguson

#18. So, fortune cookies: invented by the Japanese, popularized by the Chinese, but ultimately consumed by Americans. They are more American than anything else.

Jennifer Lee

#19. We see it [the as-yet unseen, probable new planet, Neptune] as Columbus saw America from the coast of Spain. Its movements have been felt, trembling along the far-reaching line of our analysis with a certainty hardly inferior to that of ocular demonstration.

William Herschel

#20. Do not feed your ego and your problems, with your attention ... Slowly, surely, the ego will lose weight, until one fine day it will be nothing but a thin ghost of its former self. You will be able to see right through it, to the divine presence that shines in each of us.

Eknath Easwaran

#21. Individuality is to be preserved and respected everywhere, as the root of everything good.

Jean Paul

#22. I cannot read a fortune cookie without breaking down and crying. I am sensitive.

Thom Yorke

#23. Most Americans don't know enough about basic economics to fill out one fortune cookie.

Neal Boortz

#24. You'll see, the story ends well.

Fanny Britt

#25. Take out the fortune before you eat the cookie.

Dave Barry

#26. Fisherman deceives the fish with bait; this action makes the fisherman dishonest! For a fisherman to be honest, he must not put any bait to his fishhook! He who dares to be ideally honest, let him know how hard it is to be such an honest!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#27. I'm a drummer. I can count to four and repeat.

Tre Cool

#28. Sometimes the surface is the safest place to be.

Jacqueline Sheehan

#29. Thought for the day: Twitter ... 140 character limit ... must be a great tool for fortune cookie writers ...

E.A. Bucchianeri

#30. I like to learn about things. I could learn about business, which I knew nothing about. Since the age of 7, I wanted to be a doctor and nothing else.

Vincent Lo

#31. The government recognized immediately that Rap music has enormous revolutionary potential and politicians immediately came together to end it.

Assata Shakur

#32. I could kill you with my hands, Marcus thought, and it was enough to evoke the smile that etiquette called for.

James S.A. Corey

#33. You go on about reasons," Cora said. "Call things by other names as if it changes what they are. But that don't make them true.

Colson Whitehead

#34. She had trouble keeping her mouth shut when she didn't agree with someone or felt they were just plain stupid.

Sierra Hill

#35. God says only one thing if you want to have attachment towards worldly life; go ahead and get attached to it; or else, get attached to Me. If you get attached to Me, you will get permanent happiness and if you get attached to the worldly life, you will not find contentment!

Dada Bhagwan