Amy Tan Quotes

Dreams sometimes foretell the future.

I can see things before they happen on the court.

What’s the opposite of déjà vu, when you see something that hasn’t happened yet?” “I don’t know—avant verrais?

My life's experiences, I've always had, my uncle used to call it antenna. I know what's going to happen oftentimes before it happened when it's involving me.

I don't necessarily call myself a psychic, but since I was a little girl, I would dream about things, and then I would tell my dad, and it would happen the next day.

I've had moments when I've thought about somebody, picked up the phone to call them and they are on the line already, and I think that maybe there's some vibration, some connection.

Over and over, since I was very young, I see things that are about to happen. You can call it heightened intuition; you can call it visions... I see it as a gift. It's my role to give people a heightened awareness, to show that basically we can change the world.

I actually have a weird tendency to say things to people that they were just about to say. I always freak my best friend out with that. So I might have a bit of psychic power.

I believe that we can 'sense' the future. We just haven't yet established the mechanism allowing it to happen.

Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality.

I was a peripheral visionary. I could see the future, but only way off to the side.

For a long time, I have been making many predictions, far in advance, of events since come to pass, naming the particular locality. I acknowledge all to have been accomplished through divine power and inspiration.

I have a weird propensity to know what's going to happen in the future.

Foreknowledge is a wonderful thing.

Everything psychic is pregnant with the future.

Sometimes, I can see the future stretched out in front of me - just as plain as day. The future hanging over there at the edge of my days. Just waiting for me.

Sometimes you know before you know.

We surely know by some nameless instinct more about our futures than we think we know.

He predicts things. I have often heard him say things which are proved right minutes later. Its really impressive - almost mystical.

Second sight is redundant to reason anyway.

The good psychic would pick up the phone before it rang. Of course it is possible there was noone on the other line. Once she said "God Bless you" I said, "I didn't sneeze" She looked deep into my eyes and said, "You will, eventually." And damn it if she wasn't right. Two days later I sneezed.

What's a premonition? It's when you feel something before it actually happens. Do I believe in it? Yes. Have I had one? Nothing worth noting. I believe in all of that kind of stuff.

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

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