Forte Quotes

• I came from Long Island, so I had a lot of experience at the stick. I played in junior high school, then I played in high school. The technical aspect of the game was my forte. I had all that experience, then I had strength and I was in good condition.

  Jim Brown

  School, Games, Islands

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• After my stellar first grade academic achievements, I continued to perform well in the city primary schools - except for penmanship, which was not my forte.

  Vernon L. Smith

  School, Cities, Achievement

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• Hunter can write a melody and stuff like that, but his forte is lyrics. He can write a serviceable melody to hang his lyrics on, and sometimes he comes up with something really nice.

  Jerry Garcia

  Nice, Writing, Hunters

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• My forte is playing drunks down the ages. When my agent rings me about a role, I don't ask what the part is, but what century it's in.

  Johnny Vegas

  Age, Roles, Century

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• My great forte in killing buffaloes was to get them circling by riding my horse at the head of the herd and shooting their leaders. Thus the brutes behind were crowded to the left, so that they were soon going round and round.

  Buffalo Bill

  Horse, Leader, Shooting

  Buffalo Bill, W. F. Cody (2012). “Buffalo Bill's Life Story: An Autobiography”, p.71, Courier Corporation

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• Yes, anally retentive men are my forte!

  Geoffrey Rush

  Men

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• My forte is awkwardness.

  Zach Galifianakis

  Awkwardness

  "Megan Fox". Interview with Zach Galifianakis, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 22, 2010.

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• I would not want you to suppose that my rejection of Allen Forte's theory of pitch-class sets implies a rejection of the notion that there can be such a thing as a pitch-class set. It is only when one defines everything in terms of pitch-class sets that the concept becomes meaningless.

  George Perle

  Class, Rejection, Want

  George Perle (1990). “The Listening Composer”, p.67, Univ of California Press

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• Pantomime is a big thing in the cultural calendar of my country, you know. So subtlety's not my forte.

  Alan Cumming

  Country, Calendars, Bigs

  "Cumming out on top". Interview with Adam Higginbotham, www.theguardian.com. February 16, 2003.

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• I don't play accurately--any one can play accurately--but I play with wonderful expression. As far as the piano is concerned, sentiment is my forte. I keep science for Life.

  Oscar Wilde

  Expression, Play, Piano

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “Wilde Complete Plays: Lady Windermere's Fan; An Ideal Husband; The Importance of Being Earnest; A Woman of No Importance; Salome; The Duchess of Padua; Vera, or the Nihilists; A Florentine Tragedy; La Sainte Courtisane”, p.217, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I dare to be great. The man without imagination stands unhurt and hath no wings. This is my credo, this is my forte.

  Don King

  Men, Wings, Boxing

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• I'm definitely not a science nerd, I'll say that. That was not my forte at school.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  School, Nerd

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• A forte always makes a foible.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Talent, Foibles

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1978). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson: 1854-1861”, p.312, Harvard University Press

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• Cinema’s characteristic forte is its ability to capture and communicate the intimacies of the human mind.

  Satyajit Ray

  Communication, Mind, Cinema

  Satyajit Ray (2007). “Satyajit Ray: Interviews”

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• Psychos and megalomaniacs are my forte, remember? They all wanna hang with me

  Gini Koch

  Psycho, Remember, Megalomaniacs

  Gini Koch (2011). “Alien in the Family”, p.185, Penguin

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• I try to be personal, but that's not me, either. What seems to work best, and the tweets I enjoy reading the most, are when comedians just give jokes. It's a great joke of the day thing, especially revolving around current events. But that's not my forte either, so I find myself in no man's land with Twitter. I don't particularly enjoy giving me out to everyone.

  John Cho

  Reading, Men, Land

  Source: collider.com

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• I have no idea and I think Steven King strongest suit is the characters that he does create, all in the same area where he lives. The way he describes them is one of his fortes and it boggles my mind how he's able to do that and to create so many. It must be thousands by now.

  Kathy Bates

  Kings, Character, Thinking

  Source: guff.com

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• Who wishes to give himself an abundance of business let him equip these two things, a ship and a woman. For no two things involve more business, if you have begun to fit them out. Nor are these two things ever sufficiently adorned, nor is any excess of adornment enough for them.

  Plautus

  Business, Two, Giving

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 85-87, Poenulus, I. 2. 1, 1922.

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• My forte is playing along and singing along to music I love. I mean, who knows, maybe I could develop that knack or develop that ability to write, and I do actually co-write with people and friends, which is fun, too, because then I don't have to worry about writing lyrics, because for me writing lyrics is impossible.

  Petra Haden

  Fun, Writing, Mean

  Source: therumpus.net

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• There was this wonderful day where we sat and listened to all of Andy's [Kim] songs throughout the years, and I think we spent around six hours at my house, and then we played all these tunes of mine that have never found any version. And "Heaven Without a Gun" is one of them, and it struck him. If you can find a compadre who doesn't live in the literal world 'cos you're not always fighting to explain yourself to make sense, that maybe it's the dyslexia, maybe it's the dreamer, maybe it's the idea that grammar was not your foreplay - excuse me - see what I mean, your forte.

  Kevin Drew

  Song, Mean, Fighting

  Source: www.popmatters.com

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• They make their fortune who are stout and wise,
  Wit rules the heavens, discretion guides the skies.
  [Lat., Che sovente addivien che'l saggio e'l forte.
  Fabro a se stesso e di beata sorte.]

  Torquato Tasso

  Wise, Sky, Heaven

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• I have not, in general, much belief in the ability of woman as a creative artist. Unwritten lyrics, as [Ralph Waldo] Emerson said once when we conversed on this subject, should be her forte.

  Fredrika Bremer

  Artist, Creative, Belief

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• For me, I like to have explosive moments, whether it is a particular movement itself in the whole sequence. I like to have shocking moments; for audiences to feel, like, 'Whoa!' It's always been my forte.

  Donnie Yen

  Movement, Moments, Feels

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• I'd like to do more comedy, but i think my forte is still in the heavy. I'd love to do a comic lead, a musical.

  Lee Van Cleef

  Thinking, Musical, Comedy

  Source: www.fistful-of-leone.com

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• I'm not an upfront person. Being upfront is not my forte. I'm quite happy to stay in the back there with the drums, where I belong.

  Bill Wyman

  Persons

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