Top 82 Forte Quotes
#1. I never planned on being a live performer. My whole forte was about being in the studio, producing, playing the piano on recording sessions. I was all about the studio.
Allen Toussaint
#2. 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
#3. I've auditioned for musicals a lot, but I think my voice didn't really match what they were looking for. I went to school for musical theater for a year and dropped out. Legit musicals are not quite my forte.
Cristin Milioti
#5. The Lebanese Civil War, 1975-1990, spanned four World Cups. It would have been a more symmetrical five had the Lebanese begun in 1974, but you know, we're Mediterranean, and timing isn't our forte.
Rabih Alameddine
#6. My father was a master carpenter and builder. Architectural design, engineering design, mechanical design, three-dimensional views, that was my shtick, my forte.
Bobby Seale
#7. Well, most people would have said 'thank you' after they'd been given help, and then I would have responded to that with 'you're welcome'. I figured we'd skip straight to my part since social graces aren't your forte.
Heather James
#8. Vincent Forte was kicked out of the UFC because he was too hardcore.
Paul Scheer
#10. Action isn't my forte. I'm an expert on contemplation and mild regret.
Robert Sheckley
#11. 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
#12. She was always waiting, it seemed to be her forte.
D.H. Lawrence
#13. My forte was the middlegame. I had a good feeling for the critical moments of the play. This undoubtedly compensated for my lack of opening preparation and, possibly, not altogether perfect play in the endgame. In my games things often did not reach the endgame!
Boris Spassky
#14. I could've ended up in action films forever. But the comedy thing has been my forte.
Terry Crews
#15. 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
#16. I'm not good with limitations. I tend to like to find my own. It hurts sometimes, but it's good. I'm little extreme in that sense - the middle ground is not my forte.
Leonor Varela
#17. 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
#18. Acting and theatrics are my forte.
LeCrae
#19. 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
#20. I mean, technically, he wasn't fired," Emilia clarified. "He was reassigned. But precision of language has never been the gossip mill's forte, and I guess anything's a pretty big step down after the White House.
Jennifer Lynn Barnes
#21. I've never heard a man in a suit tell me what to wear; that's not their forte. You hire your stylist; whatever someone's image is as an artist is what they've chosen to portray.
Iggy Azalea
#22. It was a well-known fact that keeping track of time was not Parry Pretty's forte ... If time were Parry's pet, it would have died tied to a tree somewhere out back long ago.
S.J. Musgraves
#23. Plot is not my forte. It's like I have to live in my head in the book for a while before I figure out what the story is ... My process is a bit messier.
Erin Morgenstern
#25. I'm definitely not a science nerd. That was not my forte at school.
Emily Blunt
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. 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
#29. I've never really been somebody who likes to hit it straight. That's just never been my forte, I guess.
Peter Uihlein
#30. Yeah, I just don't break. I don't. And there's only one person I know who's a better non-breaker than me, and that's Will Forte from 'SNL.' You can not make that guy break. I'll break eventually - Will Forte will never break.
Oscar Nunez
#31. I'm a 'Bridesmaids' type of girl. I love silliness. That's who I am at heart, and I know I can do it. If my career path takes me elsewhere, that's great. But comedy is my forte.
Kaley Cuoco
#32. I like drama. My first movie that I did, 'Soul Survivors', was a drama, and I'm just drawn to that; that's sort of my forte.
Melissa Sagemiller
#33. That was probably the stamp that went into my mind, because I worked in television for many years, doing that kind of music, so that really was my strong forte.
Skitch Henderson
#34. I don't know what kind of life you had, what sorts of joys and sorrows you experienced. But even if there was something that left you unfulfilled, you can't go around seeking it at other people's doors. Even if it is at the place you're most familiar with, and the sort of act that is your forte.
Haruki Murakami
#36. You have no idea how to comfort anyone, do you? (Astrid)
In case you haven't noticed, princess, social skills aren't my forte. Hell, you're lucky I'm housebroke. (Zarek)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#37. Psychos and megalomaniacs are my forte, remember? They all wanna hang with me
Gini Koch
#39. I definitely wouldn't shy away from doing another action based project, but I feel like my forte is more like playing real, ordinary people. I'm a girl's girl.
Rachael Taylor
#40. Singing is definitely not my forte. I'll put that out there on the record.
Shenae Grimes
#41. Battling through poverty was not my forte, and I didn't have the inkling of eluding them.
Fernando Lachica
#42. 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
#43. Cover versions, that's my forte, that's all I ever used to do. When you play your own songs, it's quite scary, 'cause I'm quite honest and open, they can be very revealing. But covers, I don't have to think about, just get me up there!
Ellie Goulding
#44. Kicks are my forte. I've got strong legs and high kicks. And I've got very good reach, obviously.
Tamsin Egerton
#45. Are women literal creatures? I have to admit this is not my forte.
Alex Rosa
#46. 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
#47. I'm a big animal. Fine motor skills are not me forte.
Mike Mehalek
#48. It takes a tremendous amount of strength to be a single mother. To hold down the forte of a home, a life and your child's entire happiness.
Nikki Rowe
#49. Pantomime is a big thing in the cultural calendar of my country, you know. So subtlety's not my forte.
Alan Cumming
#50. It's going to be okay, Eric," Urte said, helping me sit up.
I shook my head. "Lying is my forte, Urte, not yours." (Eric.)
Shannon A. Thompson
#51. 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
#52. 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
#53. Knife fighting was his forte, but he wouldn't have time to have a proper match. Pity.
Maria V. Snyder
#54. 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
#55. I knew a lot about product design before coming to Apple, but I didn't understand a lot about consumer experience design, which is really Apple's forte.
Tony Fadell
#56. I'm definitely not a science nerd, I'll say that. That was not my forte at school.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
#57. I started in music and that's my forte and that's what I've always done and where I'm heading.
Jencarlos Canela
#58. By now the perpetually changing landscape of breast cancer was beginning to tire him out. Trials, tables, and charts had never been his forte; he was a surgeon, not a bookkeeper.
Siddhartha Mukherjee
#59. The young people who come to me in the hope of hearing me utter a few memorable maxims are quite disappointed. Aphorisms are not my forte, I say nothing but banalities ... I listen to them and they go away delighted.
Andre Gide
#61. Cinema's characteristic forte is its ability to capture and communicate the intimacies of the human mind.
Satyajit Ray
#62. Science is his forte, and omniscience his foible.
Sydney Smith
#63. I'm most interested in finding the strangeness and irony in reality. That's my forte.
Mary Ellen Mark
#65. I don't know if I was a funny kid. I would say I was a loud and weird kid.
Will Forte
#66. You can do anything to my food and I'll still eat it.
Will Forte
#67. PRAY; the word we use, when hope isn't enough. The word we use when faith is all that is left.
Gilbere Forte
#68. Don't go through life so fast that someone has to throw a brick at you to get you to pay attention.
Michael Forte
#69. Bruce [Dern] and I are in this car just for days and days, just talking about life and I could listen to his stories forever.
Will Forte
#70. My life is littered with bad decisions.
Will Forte
#71. there are times when simply looking at him breaks her heart. Not in a sad way. It's the other kind of heartbreak. The kind that clenches the insides upon discovery of something particularly beautiful or altogether implausible.
Barbara Forte Abate
#72. A person can be miserable in a mansion and happy in a shack."
"Money will not buy happiness. It's merly the lack of it that can cause much of our misery.
Leon Forte
#73. I am a huge sports fan and spend a lot of my time away from work watching sports, going to sporting events, stuff like that. So it is a big thrill to see these people who I have so much respect for and to find out that they're all really fun, super-nice people. It's very exciting.
Will Forte
#74. I'm kind of under the radar. Not a lot of people notice me. Which is surprising, because I'm so sexy. They're probably intimidated by my sexiness and crushability.
Will Forte
#75. I'm not very good at impersonations.
Will Forte
#76. It takes a certain type of person to register your 'Donkey Kong' score. So I'm just number 29 in registered Donkey Kong scores.
Will Forte
#77. When certain people hear "'SNL' comedy," rightfully so, you expect it to be a certain kind of goofiness.
Will Forte
#78. I feel like all my faults go into making the person that I am. I like myself as a person. And I think taking any fault away would change who I am as a person.
Will Forte
#79. There's really no wrong way to use a margarita pool.
Will Forte
#80. When I was a kid watching "The Blues Brothers," I could not think of a better thing than watching 300 cop cars crash into each other.
Will Forte
#81. I think the advantage we had with "MacGruber" is the speed we had to put it together. We had a such a short period to write the movie and such a post-[production] period, it was almost like the way that the show worked, where everything is happening so fast you have to go with your gut.
Will Forte
#82. I'm a very bad impersonator so I can't even remember if I've ever done a sports person. I mean, I think I was Bruce Jenner once but I don't think I said anything in the sketch I was just sitting there in a like a bronze track suit. No dialogue. They don't trust me with dialogue.
Will Forte
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