Narrow Quotes

You know who my gods are, who I believe in fervently? Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson - she's probably the top - Mozart, Shakespeare, Keats. These are wonderful gods who have gotten me through the narrow straits of life.
Maurice Sendak

Life, Through, Wonderful

To have no heroes is to have no aspiration, to live on the momentum of the past, to be thrown back upon routine, sensuality, and the narrow self.
Charles Horton Cooley

Live, Past, Self

Because I have a girlfriend, I try and take the straight and narrow path, which is good because it prevents VD.
Joe Rogan

Good, Try, Path

It is impossible for any number which is a power greater than the second to be written as a sum of two like powers. I have a truly marvelous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain.
Pierre de Fermat

Power, Two, Impossible

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

Thought, Reflection, Quality

Whenever a female takes a strong stand for herself, the majority of the time they have to really, really narrow it down to being feminine and wearing dresses and just being lipstick chic.
Michelle Rodriguez

Time, Strong, Down

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, Writing, Creative

Every life is narrow. Our only escape is not to run away, but to learn to love the people we are and the world in which we find ourselves.
Mark Haddon

Life, Love, Find

Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.
Damian Lewis

Experience, Acting, Isolated

Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.
Christopher Fry

Faith, Truth, Comedy

Today brands are everything, and all kinds of products and services - from accounting firms to sneaker makers to restaurants - are figuring out how to transcend the narrow boundaries of their categories and become a brand surrounded by a Tommy Hilfiger-like buzz.
Tom Peters

Today, Everything, Become

Mitt Romney's only bottom line is the one at the end of his own bank statement. The problem is that he confuses his own narrow, self-interest - and that of people like him - with the national interest. He thinks as long as we do right by the Mitt Romneys of the world, America will be just fine.
Charles Schumer

I think in the end, when you're famous, people like to narrow you down to a few personality traits. I think I've just become this ambitious, say-whatever's-on-her-mind, intimidating person. And that's part of my personality, but it's certainly not anywhere near the whole thing.
Madonna Ciccone

Famous, End, Person

I hope we will not so characterize religious people as being so narrow and so biased towards people not of their own religion that they cannot even work with them in this common cause to which you say they are committed.
Barney Frank

Work, Religion, Hope

I love Italian food but that's too generic a term for what's available now: you have to narrow it down to Tuscan, Sicilian, and so on.
Lee Child

Love, Food, Down

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

Life, Game, Person

Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.
Mary Astell

Education, Ignorance, Foundation

We beg you to save young America from the blight of race prejudice. Do not bind the children within the narrow circles of your own lives.
Charles Hamilton Houston

Children, America, Young

For humanism also appeals to man as man. It seeks to liberate the universal qualities of human nature from the narrow limitations of blood and soil and class and to create a common language and a common culture in which men can realize their common humanity.
Christopher Dawson

Nature, Men, Human

Our political differences, now matter how sharply they are debated, are really quite narrow in comparison to the remarkably durable national consensus on our founding convictions.
John McCain

Political, Matter, Quite

In cities like Athens, poor houses lined narrow and tortuous streets in spite of luxurious public buildings.
Stephen Gardiner

Poor, Public, Spite

Why should a great and powerful nation like the United States allow its relationship with more than a billion Muslims around the world to be defined by the narrow hatred and nihilistic actions of an exceptionally small minority of Muslims?
John O. Brennan

Great, Powerful, Small

These days too many of us seem inclined to cover our ears, close our eyes, and blindly follow the most narrow, conservative tenets of religion; or else seek comfort in the ancient traditions of New Age ritual.
Joan D. Vinge

Age, Religion, Eyes

To know that once you decide to look at life outside of the narrow limits of just your world and start to understand that you can make a difference in very simple ways - in volunteering and all the way up to bigger world problems.
Susan Sarandon

Life, Simple, Understand

Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places.
E. Joseph Cossman

Change, Age, Mind

If you're trying to get someone who's sick with a fever off of a submarine and it's cold and raining outside, the only way in and out of a submarine, generally, is through a fairly narrow hatch.
Laurel Clark

Someone, Through, Trying

The tastes of country music fans are not limited to the narrow range defined by consultants and programmers and record company moguls.
Charley Pride

Music, Country, Company

There's certain things I try to avoid, as an actress, just to keep my world from being as narrow as it could be.
Famke Janssen

Try, Keep, Avoid

Except in very narrow cases, where there's breakthrough science that needs patent production, worrying about competitors is a waste of time. If you can't out iterate someone who is trying to copy you, you're toast anyway.
Eric Ries

Time, Science, Someone

Madrid is enjoyed most from the ground, exploring your way through its narrow streets that always lead to some intriguing park, market, tapas bar or street performer. Each night we'd leave our hotel to begin a new adventure in Madrid and nine out of 10 times, we'd walk through the Plaza Mayor.
Emilio Estevez

Night, Through, Times

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