Top 1200 Fortune Teller Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

I couldn't tell a story if my life depended on it. I'm the world's worst joke-teller.

Science fiction writers aren't fortune tellers. Fortune tellers are fakes.

I am not a joke-teller. Stand-up, I couldn't do.

The wheel of fortune [...] tells us that we all only want victory. We all want to triumph. But we all have to learn to endure what comes. We have to learn to treat misfortune and great fortune with indifference. That is wisdom.

Only learn to seize good fortune, for good fortune's always here.

Truth never hurt the teller.

The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.

The nature of bad news affects the teller.

The NBAs a Fortune 500 company. Thats how you look at it. And all the other Fortune 500 companies out there in the world, you dont see their CEOs and COOs going to work with white tees and baggy clothes and stuff like that. So I have to take that same approach.

But thou art fair, and at thy birth, dear boy, Nature and Fortune join'd to make thee great: Of Nature's gifts thou mayst with lilies boast, And with the half-blown rose; but Fortune, O!

I'm not even really a joke-teller. I can do ad-lib and banter, but I don't do jokes.

The tale is often wiser than the teller.

As a story teller I have used characters, epic tales, poetry and rasa in my performances.

Good fortune will elevate even petty minds, and give them the appearance of a certain greatness and stateliness, as from their high place they look down upon the world; but the truly noble and resolved spirit raises itself, and becomes more conspicuous in times of disaster and ill fortune.

But history is a faithless teller whose cruel recourse to hindsight makes fools of its actors.

My dad was such a great story-teller, a good teacher.

One of the things that Teller and I are obsessed with, one of the reasons that we're in magic, is the difference between fantasy and reality.

It is no great wonder if in long process of time, while fortune takes her course hither and thither, numerous coincidences should spontaneously occur. If the number and variety of subjects to be wrought upon be infinite, it is all the more easy for fortune, with such an abundance of material, to effect this similarity of results.

The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth.

All of us collect fortunes when we are children. A fortune of colors, of lights, and darkness, of movement, of tensions. Some of us have the fantastic chance to go back to his fortune when grown up.

A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.

All I desire is, that my poverty may not be a burden to myself, or make me so to others; and that is the best state of fortune that is neither directly necessitous nor far from it. A mediocrity of fortune, with gentleness of mind, will preserve us from fear or envy; which is a desirable condition; for no man wants power to do mischief.

I'm not a kiss-and-teller. I never named names.

Reserve some hours daily to examine yourself and fortune; for if you embark yourself in perpetual conversation or recreation, you will certainly shipwreck your mind and fortune.

A first-generation fortune is the most likely to be given away, but once a fortune is inherited it's less likely that a very high percentage will go back to society.

I wanted to be a story teller so badly.

As the director of a film, as the story teller, you have to keep your voice alive.

Redemption isn't giving a bank robber a job as a teller.

I'm a yarn teller. My job is to engage you as much as I can and as often as I can.

Most secrets should never be told, but especially those that are more menacing to the listener than to the teller.

The good fortune of America is closely tied to the good fortune of all humanity.

I don't know where my next movie is going to get financed or if it will. I think every filmmaker is probably worried about that, unless their movie made a fortune. My movies make a profit, but obviously not a fortune. So yeah, it's scary.

I am a story teller. If I wanted to send a message I would have written a sermon.

That was the best kind of story: when the teller was as much under its spell as the listener.

I am not a qualified historian, but rather a teller of stories from history.

Nobody who is a Penn & Teller fan thinks of us first and foremost as magicians, but as a comedy team.

I'm a story teller. I really know how to tell stories of Africa.

Ought a man to be confident that he deserves his good fortune, and think much of himself when he has overcome a nation, or city, or empire; or does fortune give this as an example to the victor also of the uncertainty of human affairs, which never continue in one stay? For what time can there be for us mortals to feel confident, when our victories over others especially compel us to dread fortune, and while we are exulting, the reflection that the fatal day comes now to one, now to another, in regular succession, dashes our joy.

Short films really helped me develop as a story teller, animator, and as a director.

A fortune won in a day is lost in a day; a fortune won slowly, and slowly compacted, seems to acquire from the hand that won it the property of endurance.

Beauty - what is beauty, forsooth? Form and color; that is, surface only. Fortune - what is fortune? Nothing is ever a pleasure or a real profit to him who has to labour for it. Truth - you die in the pursuit, and the sea beats the beach as it did a thousand years ago. The stolid are alone happy.

Scratch any fortune and you'll find blood only a generation or two back...child labor in mines or mills...Slavery. Drugs. Stock swindles. Wasting nature with clear-cuts, pollution, harvesting to extinction. Monopolies. Disease. War. Every fortune comes out of something unpleasant.

Penn & Teller stopped doing practical jokes, and the reason is we got much too good at it.

I am basically a story-teller.

the Musgroves had had the ill fortune of a very troublesome, hopeless son, and the good fortune to lose him before he reached his twentieth year.

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.

Penn & Teller don't know jack about global warming.

I became a writer, a teller of tales, because otherwise I would have died... or worse.

People take what they need from the stories they hear. The tale is often wiser than the teller.

Some people have made a fortune by being employed. Jerry Bruckheimer does not own his content. Warner Bros. owns his shows. They are on CBS, and he makes a fortune.

Moderation is caused by the fear of exciting the envy and contempt which those merit who are intoxicated with their good fortune; it is a vain display of our strength of mind, and in short the moderation of men at their greatest height is only a desire to appear greater than their fortune.

The NBA's a Fortune 500 company. That's how you look at it. And all the other Fortune 500 companies out there in the world, you don't see their CEOs and COOs going to work with white tees and baggy clothes and stuff like that. So I have to take that same approach.

Fame and fortune should never get in front of your passion. The passion will generate the fame and fortune, if you're good enough.

I've been a story-teller all my life but I realized it only recently.

What real good does an addition to a fortune already sufficient procure? Not any. Could the great man, by having his fortune increased, increase also his appetites, then precedence might be attended with real amusement.

History is so subjective. The teller of it determines it.

The pilot who is always dreading a rock or a tempest must not complain if he remain a poor fisherman. We must at times trust, something to fortune, for fortune has often some share in what happens.

If you would attract good fortune, you must get rid of doubt. As long as that stands between you and your ambition, it will be a bar that will cut you off. You must have faith. No man can make a fortune while he is convinced that he can't.

Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.

If there are two things Penn & Teller stand for, it's the truth & lying, although not necessarily in that order.