Nicholas Meyer Quotes

Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.

I'm quite proud of what I anticipated about reality television from my books in the early '90s, which I based on the early seasons of 'Cops' and on the amazing stuff I had read about happening on Japanese shows and the British 'Big Brother'.

Prediction? The Democrats will win. I think it will be a close win, both for the House and for the Senate.

Not many people give you a vision of what the future will bring.

It is not very often given to a politician to turn out to be right.

At a time when politics has become an almost minute-by-minute spectacle, political thinkers who try to discern a sweeping interpretive pattern in current events or to predict where those events may be heading are likely to find their work evaluated in terms dismayingly like those applied to candidates and strategists. One wrong guess, or an abrupt change in the political weather, can make even an illuminating political book seem as irrelevant as a bungled campaign.

The art of prophecy is very difficult, especially with respect to the future.

I predict, not because I know, but because I'm asked.

Science is the observation of things possible, whether present or past; prescience is the knowledge of things which may come to pass, though but slowly.

prospect, n. An outlook, usually forbidding. An expectation, usually forbidden.

I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.

Newspapers tell beforehand what is going to happen - maybe.

I never quite trust futurists because I think they're kind of telling us what they think our future should be.

He's started anticipating what's going to happen before it's even happened.

Forecasts may tell you a great deal about the forecaster; they tell you nothing about the future.

I am not going to say I told you so, but I did.

Memory has many conveniences, and, among others, that of foreseeing things as they have afterwards happened.

There are always so many conjectures as to the issue of any event that, whatever the outcome, there will always be people to say: 'I said then that it would be so'

I think Donald Trump is going to surprise a lot of people.

I find Donald Trump to be very kind and generous. I find him to have a great sense of humor.

While we may open the books of the past, we may but grant flying glances of the future, through the mist that veils it.

Visiting Future World is like opening a Chinese fortune cookie to read, "Soon you'll be finished with dinner."

I've always been careful never to predict anything that had not already happened.

For all the flailing and huffing and puffing, there is a kind of fatality about the process of war-making and the excuses we find for it, the consolation of belligerence in politics.

Finally, after more than a year of unprecedented anticipation, the talking stops and the cricket begins.