#narrow

American men, as a group, seem to be interested in only two things, money and breasts. It seems a very narrow outlook. ↗

— Hedy Lamarr

#american men #breasts #group #interested #men

Dates with actors, finally, just seemed to me evenings of shop talk. I got sick of it after a hile. So the more famous I became, the more I narrowed down my choices. ↗

— Hedy Lamarr

#became #choices #dates #down #evenings

A national evil requires a national remedy; let not this any longer be delayed: let your minds expand, free from every narrow principle, and let the public good become the sole object of your united Christian efforts. ↗

— Joseph Lancaster

#become #christian #delayed #efforts #every

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#falsehood #himself #man #narrow #near

Much of what passes for quality on British television is no more than a reflection of the narrow elite which controls it and has always thought that its tastes were synonymous with quality. ↗

— Rupert Murdoch

#british #controls #elite #more #much

Independence did not mean chauvinism and narrow nationalism. ↗

— Said Musa

#did #independence #mean #narrow #nationalism

It was a good place for getting lost in, a city no one ever knew, a city explored from the neutral heart outward, until after many years, it defined itself into a jumble of clearings separated by stretches of the unknown, through which the narrowest of paths had been cut. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#been #city #cut #defined #ever

I am grateful that my horizons were not narrowed at the outset. ↗

— Jessye Norman

#grateful #horizons #i #i am #narrowed

Reading, like writing, is a creative act. If readers only bring a narrow range of themselves to the book, then they'll only see their narrow range reflected in it. ↗

— Ben Okri

#book #bring #creative #creative act #like

My entire life has been spent thinking about this game. That's pretty narrow... I don't view myself as a person who's well-versed in very many subjects. I'm not proud of that. ↗

— Bill Parcells

#been #entire #entire life #game #i