Quotes About Fortune Telling

#1. Framed behind glass is a card from a carnival fortune-telling machine. It promises you are destined to be together
forever.

Dean Koontz

#2. The realm of superstitions, fortune-telling, presentiments, intuition, dreams, all this is the inner life of a human being, and all this is the hardest thing to film.

Krzysztof Kieslowski

#3. Sabine was now sixteen and old enough to begin doing what any girl like her would."
Brazen Mortal crossed her arms over her chest and knowingly said, "Prostitution."
"Wrong. Commercial fishing."
"Really?"
"Noooo," Sabine said. "Fortune-telling.

Kresley Cole

#4. England a fortune-telling host, As num'rous as the stars, could boast; Matrons, who toss the cup, and see The grounds of Fate in grounds of tea ...

Charles Churchill

#5. Uniquely, people who made suicide attempts were found to be especially prone to so-called "fortune telling," through which they predict and firmly believe that bad things will happen in the future.

Anonymous

#6. You see, astrology is like fortune-telling. If you can't get it right, you say, Well, if Venus was doing something peculiar in the background, that would alter your prognostication
because, of course, astrology is rubbish.

Quentin Crisp

#7. Pills and fortune-telling and dieting: nobody can stop her when it comes to any of those things.

Haruki Murakami

#8. Fortune-telling doesn't reveal the future; it mirrors the present. It resonates against what your subconscious already knows and hauls it up out of the darkness so you can get a good look at it.

Charles De Lint

#9. I am the only one of us who brings in any money. the other two cannot make money fortune telling. this is because they only tell the truth, and the truth is not what people want to hear. it is a bad thing and it troubles people, so they do not come back.

Neil Gaiman

#10. Some contemporary mediums dislike the term 'psychic' because they feel it carries a negative connotation, leading people to associations with crystal balls, tea-leaf reading, fortune-telling, or other stereotypes.

Mark Ireland

#11. Granny knew all about bad fortune-telling. It was harder than the real thing. You needed a good imagination.

Terry Pratchett

#12. She shrugged. Everybody makes the same mistake. Fortune-telling doesn't reveal the future; it mirrors the present. It resonates against what your subconscious already knows and hauls it up out of the darkness so that you can get a good look at it.

Charles De Lint

#13. So he was a sweet-talking, cross-dressing, fortune-telling ... surfer?

Gwen Hayes

#14. It will be thought that I am acting strangely in concerning myself at this day with what appears at first sight and simply a well-known method of fortune-telling.

A. E. Waite

#15. I heard it was made of the same stuff they make them fortune-telling crystals out of. You can't tell me that's right. And he looks at you with it," said the first speaker. He was known as Peachy, although no one had ever found out why.*

Terry Pratchett

#16. Fortune-telling was quantum betting, a competitive scrying of variably likely outcomes.

China Mieville

#17. That's what a bitch feng shui and fortune-telling can be. Not only do you have to follow it, you have to fucking enjoy it at the same time.

Elaine Lui

#18. not Rom. They're Russian. Slavs, I believe." "But she does fortune-telling.

Neil Gaiman

#19. Girls with poison necklaces
to save themselves from torture.
Just as women wear amulets
which hold their rolled up fortunes
transcribed on ola leaf.

Michael Ondaatje

#20. Dolorita Hunsickle says that the chipmunks tell your fortune if you catch them but I never did. She says a chipmunk told her she would grow up to be a famous ballerina and that she would die of consumption unloved in a boardinghouse in Prague.

Neil Gaiman

#21. A fortune-teller means a braggart anyway. Don't you know that a donkey can't do but braying, a wolf can't do but howling, a horse can't do but neighing, and a fortune-teller can't do but telling lies?

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#22. How long before we devise a means of telling horoscopes with gas lamps?

K.J. Bishop

#23. We will have it tanned and stuffed and sell it for a fortune. A dwarf's cock has magical powers."
"I have been telling all the women that for years.

George R R Martin

#24. Writing is a tough business, but never forget the reason why you write. It's for the love of story telling. Fame and fortune may elude you, but that's no reason to give up. Remember, there's always someone ready to listen to a good story.

Robert Bartram

#25. All gambling is the telling of a fortune, but of a monstrously depleted fortune, empty of everything save one numerical circumstance, shorn of all such richness as a voyage across the water, a fair man that loves you, a dark woman that means you harm.

Rebecca West

#26. I see a girl, soon to be a woman," Tibb continues. "The girl who will share your life. She will love you, she will betray you, and finally she will die for you. And it will all have been for nothing. All for nothing in the end.

Joseph Delaney

#27. Books are like Tarot decks. They provide answers and guidance but more importantly, they are doorways and portals to the otherworld and the imagination. They leave their imprint and keep whispering to us long after we close the pages or shuffle the deck.

Sasha Graham

#28. Her own experience was beginning to tell her that an alert old age can be more keen than the cards.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#29. Even though this world is narrow, it is wide ... to those who understand.
This world isn't the only one.

CLAMP

#30. He thought astrology was a load of bosh! Didn't believe in stars and planets telling his fortune or anyone else's.

Malorie Blackman

#31. Make a wish," Oliver said, gesturing to the upturned cup, "and turn it clockwise three times.

Danika Stone

#32. Deciding which relationships to pursue can be difficult. Especially if you're trying to get hired by the Magic 8 Ball factory and that little triangle thing isn't floating right.

Ryan Lilly

#33. Cole felt like he'd stumbled into some arcane Templar practise, his sense of ease disappearing the moment the cups were pulled from the shelf.

Danika Stone