Nothing is like it seems to be?

[bazarov]

Hello bookworms!

Brother asked me who originally said X-Files quote ''nothing is like it seems to be'' and, to be honest, I have no idea. I found several writers to said something like that, but who did it first?

Thanks, Bazarov

[Scheherazade]

Could it be from Shakespeare's Julius Caesar?

CAESAR
Good friends, go in, and taste some wine with me;
And we, like friends, will straightway go together.

BRUTUS
[Aside] That every like is not the same, O Caesar,
The heart of Brutus yearns to think upon!

Act II, Scene II

[bazarov]

It could be, but I doubt. Please, go on

[hoope]

is it really a quote?.. it might be that X-files made it up ..
why not..???
sometimes people say words that remains in time ....lol..

ok.. this is what i was able to find ..

"Nothing is what it seems" (Quote by Andreas Lersch). Movie artist Udo Rein

its a film quote.. so probably its the same idea..
There are things called FILM QUOTES.. so many quotes comes under this headline...
best wishes..

[Cat_Brenners]

Good job for finding that quote. Hope it was what you wanted.
Cat

[Malkiyahu]

From the average joe point of view this phrase sounds like a divine comedy and something that I may have heard from the Sponge Bob Sauare Pants Cartoon. If it only was real.

Now, I am not a literature expert but I heard this precise phrase the night before Osama Bin Laden was captured and/or “killed” in his compound. It was in a dream. I saw a fat and bearded man probably from the middle Ages or from the Middle East who was giving very harsh orders or commands to one of his servants who got him an escape car. He was further ordering the servant saying that he was to do that monthly and that he had to bring a different vehicle or car each month. That the Car he just brought in was the first, but that eleven more cars were needed. I did my math and I said in my mind that this whole dealing of car chasing will take about a year in order to complete the orders. After the orders were given, the fat man went deep inside the compound of tall walls and displaced Persian curtains that looked like a harem. There and then, on the lower floor or the basement, the man prepared for his whoredom, but while he was in the immoral act, suddenly as in a squad raid by a team of contemporary combatants that came in like a thief in the night, the fat man was caught in the very act of adultery or fornication. I saw him the moment he was taken in chains which appeared to be very new compared with the surroundings I perceived in the complex. And as the fat man passed by my side escorted by armed guards and in chains, like when a drug addict is caught with drugs, he said. “Nothing is like it seems to be.” I expected to see something in the news. And not to my surprise soon after I woke up yesterday, I saw the news that Osama Bin Laden was killed. But it was not the news of his death that did not surprised even to the slightest eyebrow lift. It was because what they said in the news was like taken out of s divine comedy. And I asked myself, who is going to believe this lie? For nothing is like it seems to be.

I was left to ponder whether the man I saw in my dreams was Osama Bin Laden or Shakespeare. Today, in search for the phrase seeking to find the meaning and the source thereof, I was led to this site where I saw another bearded man asking about the source of the same phrase. May any one of you enlighten me who was the fat and or dead beaded man who first said this phrase? for lately, Nothing is like it seems to be.

Mickey Mouse

http://www.lanacion.com.ar/106090-na...undo-de-carter

Perhaps a paranoid schizophrenic like Chris Carter is plausible screen play writer who when creating the X files or Millenium mixed the receipe of paranoia, intrigue, distrust and deception.

"Otra vez la paranoia, la desconfianza, la oscuridad. Los tres elementos del mundo Carter, donde nada es lo que parece ser. "

Verónica Bonacchi