Carl Forti Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I like to sit down every day and not know where the book is going. I have no idea where the book is going to go or how it's going to end as I'm writing it.
-
We in the Middle East like to talk politics, we like to argue. Just look at the three prophets - Moses, Jesus and Mohammad. They are all from this small region which creates problems all the time.
-
I'm a huge gamer. I'm very excited, and the idea of the Rift was as a headset that was designed around the specific uses of VR gaming. But I'm excited about a lot of stuff that's outside of it, because I was a VR enthusiast. I want VR to be the thing that we all live in, that we all use for everything, not just games.
-
I will never support any tax increase on middle-income earners, ever... If you're not going to eliminate loopholes and exemptions, then I wouldn't support lowering rates.
-
Even in the angels there is the subordination of one hierarchy to another, and in the heavens, and all the bodies that are moved, the lowest by the highest and the highest in their turn unto the Supreme Mover of all.
-
Some people call it the 'Al Jazeera spirit' - courage, re-thinking authority, giving a voice to the voiceless. We have never been favored by the authority. The human being is the center of our editorial policy. We are not a TV station that rushes after stars, big names, press conferences, hand-shake journalism.
-
I haven't reported my missing credit card to the police because whoever stole it is spending less than my wife.
-
I know what it takes to be fast and I feel like every year I learn valuable lessons about how to be better the next time.
-
I think it's really important that people become aware of the amount, the mass of animals that are sitting in shelters as opposed to people going out and just buying puppies that are being bred.
-
I remember the day I found out my draft status. I was really floored and kind of staggered around in a daze. It just hadn't occurred to me that I could end up in Vietnam.
-
Insults are the business of the court.
-
I was not really as good as I should have been.
-
Typically, if you buy a studio with a library, their library is pretty well licensed out many years in advance, so you are not really gaining access to the programming in that way.
-
It is not the crook in modern business that we fear, but the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.
-
Work faithfully, and you will put yourself in possession of a glorious and enlarging happiness.
-
You are not a problem that needs solving.
-
I really haven't liked the commercialization of mountaineering, particularly of Mt. Everest. By paying $65,000, you can be conducted to the summit by a couple of good guides.
-
Let me tell you, 'The Reader' was not glamorous for me in terms of the body-hair maintenance.
-
Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
-
I went to Dartmouth College, graduated, and had the opportunity to play two professional sports - I played for the New England Patriots in the NFL and professional lacrosse for the Boston Blazers. I had an injury, so I had to stop so I could heal. But when I was playing football, I wasn't making a lot of money; I wasn't a superstar.
-
I don't want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about.
-
My normal weight category is 48 kg. So for the 51 kg. category, I had to depend on lots of food and drinks before going in for the weigh-in. But that does not make my strength, my muscles. It's a little bit different. If there's a 48 kg. category, it's a perfect fit for me.
-
The expansion of the whole cosmos was but the shrinkage of all its physical units and of the wavelengths of light.
-
Going to Freedom's Watch was a job opportunity that presented itself, so I jumped at it.
