Albert Brooks Quotes

Well, with prophecy you got to see what happens.

Divining the future is a lot easier and cheaper than documenting the present.

You can't see the future, there's no such thing. It's all bets. You'll never get the same answer from two seers. But that doesn't mean either of them's wrong.

Don't ever prophesy; for if you prophesy wrong, nobody will forget it; and if you prophesy right, nobody will remember it.

The pollsters are engaged in an ancient and primitive rite—trying to predict the future.

I do believe in prophecy.

Everything psychic is pregnant with the future.

You don't have to gaze into a crystal ball when you can read an open book.

You can't know what the future holds, though you might conjecture on it, and if you're psychic, you might venture a guess.

I'm not a fortune-teller.

Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.

I'm not in the business of reading tea leaves. I don't have a crystal ball.

Prophecy is what we all have to go by now.

I've never been paid as a prognosticator. I don't get a lot of work as a mentalist.

He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years.

Dreams sometimes foretell the future.

I can't predict the future and I don't have respect for people who try to.

Being a visionary is a new profession, but it is really just a variant on fortunetelling, which may be the world's oldest. And its marketing appeal is similar - people will pay for reassurance about the unknown.

I've certainly written a lot of things that have more or less come true. But I don't have a gift for prophecy.

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

Foreknowledge of the future makes it possible to manipulate both enemies and supporters.

I was brought up with psychics and tarot cards. My mum was always told I was going to be in a boy band and be famous as a singer.

Any prediction of the future is certainly a lie in order to sell a position.

None of us posses a crystal ball.

Nobody can be a clairvoyant.