Quotes with fortune-telling

Quotes 281 till 300 of 325.

• Today's comedian has a cross to bear that he built himself. A comedian of the older generation did an ''act'' and he told the audience, ''This is my act.'' Today's comic is not doing an act. The audience assumes he's telling the truth. What is truth today may be a damn lie next week.

  Lenny Bruce
  American Comedian (1925 - 1966)
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• Too few rejoice at a friend's good fortune.

  Aeschylus
  Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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• Truth disappears with the telling of it.

  Lawrence Durrell
  British Author (1912 - 1990)
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• Unfortunately, there seems to be far more opportunity out there than ability. We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation.

  Thomas Alva Edison
  American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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• Up on Housing Project Hill, it's either fortune or fame. You must pick one or the other, though neither of them are to be what they claim.

  Highway 61 Revisited (1965)

  Bob Dylan
  American musician (1941 - )
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• War begets quiet, quiet idleness, idleness disorder, disorder ruin; likewise ruin order, order virtue, virtue glory, and good fortune.

  Sir Walter Raleigh
  British courtier, writer (1552 - 1618)
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• We always take credit for the good and attribute the bad to fortune.

  Jean de la Fontaine
  French writer (1621 - 1695)
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• We are essentially in the business of telling stories. We would like to think that most of our stories are basically human stories with sports as a backdrop.

  Bryant Gumbel
  American television journalist and sportscaster (1948 - )
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• We do not know what is really good or bad fortune.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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• We have not all had the good fortune to be ladies. We have not all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but when the toast works down to the babies, we stand on common ground.

  Mark Twain
  American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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• We may seek a fortune for no greater reason than to secure the respect and attention of people who would otherwise look straight through us.

  Alain de Botton
  Swiss-born British author (1969 - )
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• We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.

  Seneca
  Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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• We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give.

  Jean de la Fontaine
  French writer (1621 - 1695)
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• We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.

  Phyllis Diller
  American actress and stand-up (1917 - 2012)
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• We're always just telling stories, and stories are always just approximations of the truth. It's never the truth exactly.

  Brit Marling
  American actress and screenwriter (1982 - )
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• We're telling a story. And the demands of that are different from the demands of a documentary. The audience must believe in order to keep faith in the story.

  Bradley Whitford
  American actor and political activist (1959 - )
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• We've all got to look at ourselves, start with yourself, that's all you can do. I believe that we can act responsibly as a group, it's just that there are vested interests telling us not to bother.

  Ben Elton
  British-Australian comedian, author, playwright, actor and director (1959 - )
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• Wealth is so much the greatest good that Fortune has to bestow that in the Latin and English languages it has usurped her name.

  Lord Melbourne
  British Statesman, Prime Minister (1779 - 1848)
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• What's similar between 'Daily Show' and 'RJ Berger' is that people are grabbing me - not quite the groovy intelligentsia Starbucks barista, but the Latina nurses at my gynecologist's office - and telling me they love the show.

  Beth Littleford
   
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• When fortune empties her chamber pot on your head, smile and say We are going to have a summer shower.

  Sir John A. Macdonald
   
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Subjects in these quotes:

• approximations
• intelligentsia
• gynecologist
• essentially
• documentary
• responsibly

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