Robert Fortune Quotes

A fall from such a height is rarely straight downwards.

I'm not afraid of heights. I'm afraid of widths.

I started playing ball when I was 13 and a half. Before that, I just wanted to play football and baseball but I kept growing so I figured it was time for basketball.

In the end, it’s all a question of balance.

Reason is not measured by size or height, but by principle.

I met a guy yesterday, 7 feet tall. Yeah, handsome, great big guy, 7 feet tall! ... I figured he had to be in sport, but he wasn't in sport.

In the words of the old song, it's a long time from May to December but, you know, it's an equally long time from December to May.

Has no one ever told you that it is the height of impropriety to kiss any gentleman, unless you have the intention of accompanying him immediately to the altar?

The higher the tower, the greater the fall thereof.

I mean, I'm 6-foot-11, I've got red hair, freckles, I'm a goofy, nerdy-looking guy, I've got a speech impediment-I stutter and stammer all the time-and I'm a Deadhead.

Symmetry is for God, not for us.

Making fun of anyone's size, height, scarring, anything like that equals dumb.

Too often we forget that the great men of faith reached the heights they did only by going through the depths.

Those who, relying upon themselves only, not looking for assistance to anyone besides themselves, it is they who will reach the top-most height.

She is angle. I am curve. Together, we are geometric sculpture, and we make perfect sense.

Nothing so casts down the manly mind from it's height as the fondling of women and those bodily contacts which belong to the married state.

When people are absurdly tall, they command everyone's attention when they walk into a room. Nobody's ever dismissive of somebody for being too tall.

Thank God I am 20 feet tall, so my crying is never mistaken as weak. It can be mistaken as weird, but not weak.

As the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, so the denial of God is the height of foolishness.

The appearance is the allusion of abstraction when in fact I am in control of every aspect of that symmetry.

To me, lawyering is the height of service - and being involved in this profession is a gift.

Education is a process by which the individual is developed into something better than he would have been without it. ... The very though seems in a way the height of presumption. For one thing, it involves the premise that some human beings can be better than others.

The higher the mountain on which you stand, the less change in the prospect from year to year, from age to age. Above a certain height there is no change.

It’s difficult to tell whether people are looking at you because they recognize you from your work, or whether it’s just because you’re six foot three and have the eyebrows of Satan.

... Speaking of which, the boys weren't actually touching the breifcases in the trunk, I hope?" Wondering how Milligan knew, Kate stuck her head out the office door and gave Reynie and Sticky a warning look. They nodded and tried to close the trunk as quietly as possible. "They aren't now anyway." "Good," Milligan said, picking up his duffel bag. "I'd hate to have to speak sternly to them again. It embarasses me to be so ineffective.