Quotes About Foreshadowing

the entire story is prefigured in that monologue...

The emotion was, in retrospect, a warning.

I don't like twists. I don't get much out of them. If you know two cars are about to run into each other, you don't walk away and say, 'Oh, I know what's going to happen.' You watch.

You can always tell in a movie when they are setting you up for something. If someone leaves an important object on the table and walks away, the camera will have some way of indicating that to you.

I will not look through keyholes," I interrupted hotly. Poirot closed his eyes. "Very well, then. You will not look through keyholes. You will remain the English gentleman and someone will be killed.

Great events have sent before them their announcements.

There's a trench coat and a tragedy in your future.

I have things planned for every character like what they're doing down the road and coming to different realizations but I don't have how they overlap.

'Glass Sword' has several set piece scenes that I plotted out or visualized before I wrote them, but I always knew they were coming. They anchor bits of the story.

No good news awaits I warned you right at the start Turn away, reader

And if these incidents now seem full of significance and all of a piece, it's probably because I'm looking at them in the light of what came later...

And in such indexes, although small pricksTo their subsequent volumes, there is seenThe baby figure of the giant massOf things to come.

Like a red morn, that ever yet betoken'dWrack to the seaman, tempest to the field.

Jesters do often prove prophets.

We've read the back of the book, we know what's going to happen.

Anton Chekhov famously said that a gun appearing in the first act of a play will inevitably be fired in the third. Throughout

Kincaid wondered what universal formula required that a person should sit down to receive bad news. Was it merely a precaution against fainting or falling, or had it become a kind of foreshadowing, effective in easing the shock?

I hate when you see a film and after one scene you know what's going to happen and you can predict the whole story.

The same kind of things as the rest. A sword that isn't a sword, a golden crown of laurel leaves, a beggar's staff, you pouring water on sand, a bloody hand and a white-hot iron, three women standing over a funeral bier with you on it, black rock wet with blood—

So Niels grows up, and all the influences of his childhood work on the plastic clay. Everything helps to shape it; everything is significant, the real and the dreamed, what is known and what is foreshadowed— all add their touch, lightly but surely, to that tracery of lines which is destined to be first hollowed out and deepened and afterwards flattened out and smoothed away.

Once we truly grasp the message of the 'New Testament', it is impossible to read the 'Old Testament' again without seeing Christ on every page, in every story, foreshadowed or anticipated in every event and narrative.

When I fought Jorge Cota, that's a prelim of what's to be expected from me in the future.

I should've suspected trouble when the coffee failed to arrive.

I should've suspected trouble when the coffee failed to arrive," Kynes said.