Fortune Telling Quotes

• 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.

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  Krzysztof Kieslowski

  Dream   Intuition   Superstitions  

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• 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.

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  Charles Churchill

  Stars   Fate   Tea  

  Charles Churchill (1766). “Poems ...: In Two Volumes”, p.166

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• 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.

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  Quentin Crisp

  Astrology   Peculiar   Venus  

  275

• 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.

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  Charles de Lint

  Mirrors   Darkness   Looks  

  "Dreams Underfoot". Book by Charles de Lint, 1993.

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• You make films to give people something, to transport them somewhere else, and it doesn't matter if you transport them to a world of intuition or a world of intellect...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... I've been trying to get there from the beginning. I'm somebody who doesn't know, somebody who's searching.

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  Krzysztof Kieslowski

  Movie   Dream   Somewhere Else  

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• 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.

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  A. E. Waite

  Sight   Acting   Firsts  

  A. E. Waite (2012). “The Pictorial Key to the Tarot”, p.5, Courier Corporation

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

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  Terry Pratchett

  Real   Imagination   Fortune Telling  

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