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Lacan is a tyrant who must be driven from our shores. Narrowly trained English professors who know nothing of art history or popular culture think they can just wade in with Lacan and trash everything in sight. -- Camille Paglia
The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Viewed narrowly, all life is universal hunger and an expression of energy associated with it. -- Mary Ritter Beard
A lot of my colleagues have been people with broad interests in economics, not just narrowly focused interests. -- Lars Peter Hansen
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Moreover, environmental health at the local level has become narrowly focused, very much defined around regulations and the attendant regulatory debates. -- Samuel Wilson
Very often, the judgments by ordinary citizens may be better than those by professional economists, being more rooted in reality and less narrowly focused. -- Ha-Joon Chang
The human rights community has focused very narrowly on political and civil rights for many decades, and with reason, but now we have to ask how can we broaden the view. -- Paul Farmer
I understand what happens to the brain when people are near death, and I had always believed there were good scientific explanations for the heavenly out-of-body journeys described by those who narrowly escaped death. -- Eben Alexander
The AEC scientists were so narrowly focused on arming the United States for nuclear war that they failed to perceive facts - even widely known ones - that were outside their limited field of vision. -- Barry Commoner
And I guess what I would say is that we can't think narrowly about movements for black liberation and we can't necessarily see this class division as simply a product or a certain strategy that black movements have developed for liberation. -- Angela Davis
When I'm working, I'm so narrowly focused on sound, language, rhythm, flow, that I rarely feel the emotion of the text. It's only after - long after - I've finished a piece that I can experience in any way its emotional charge. -- Taiye Selasi
I said peace is sometimes narrowly interpreted; it's the absence of conflict between nations or something. But peace is more inherent, more basic to human life, human beings, what we feel about each other, what we feel about life around us and what we see in our future. -- Muhammad Yunus
Like all young reporters - brilliant or hopelessly incompetent - I dreamed of the glamorous life of the foreign correspondent: prowling Vienna in a Burberry trench coat, speaking a dozen languages to dangerous women, narrowly escaping Sardinian bandits - the usual stuff that newspaper dreams are made of. -- Russell Baker
Written in 1895, Alfred Nobel's will endowed prizes for scientific research in chemistry, physics, and medicine. At that time, these fields were narrowly defined, and researchers were often classically trained in only one discipline. In the late 19th century, knowledge of science was not a requisite for success in other walks of life. -- Peter Agre
Too many politicians are shifting the critical themes of our national conversations from a 'big ideas' American Brand Platform to narrowly focused, polarizing sound bites that put party philosophy before what used to be heralded as the common good. These ideas, more often than not, divide us rather than serve to bind us. -- Alan Siegel
I worry about growing income inequality. But I worry even more that the discussion is too narrowly focused. I worry that our outrage at the top 1 percent is distracting us from the problem that we should really care about: how to create opportunities and ensure a reasonable standard of living for the bottom 20 percent. -- Sendhil Mullainathan
I refuse to do shows that are narrowly constructed, that appeal to only one sentiment. I do a lot of Jewish material in front of non-Jews and a lot of non-Jewish material in front of Jews on the simple theory that the non-Jews are entitled to a glimpse of a Jewish world and the Jews are entitled to a glimpse of the world. -- Theodore Bikel
Heaven is not as narrowly literal-minded as hell. -- Poul Anderson
Getting hurt and narrowly escaping death is sort of a thing for me. -- Channing Tatum
We can't think narrowly. We have to think in the biggest possible way. -- Alice Waters
The facts, gentlemen, and nothing but the facts, for careful eyes are narrowly watching. -- Isaac Asimov
A man's reputation draws eyes upon him that will narrowly inspect every part of him. -- Joseph Addison
Look, America was a narrowly divided country in 2000;49-49 was what Michael Barone called it. It's a 49-49 nation. -- Karl Rove
Environment has its own ways of limiting us tightly. But leaders have their own ways of escaping those limitations narrowly. -- Israelmore Ayivor
Mankind is not disposed to look narrowly into the conduct of great victors when their victory is on the right side. -- George Eliot
Why's it so sunny?" she repeated. Zooey observed her rather narrowly. "I bring the sun wherever I go, buddy," he said. -- J. D. Salinger
If you learn indoor techniques, you will think narrowly and forget the true Way. Thus you will have difficulty in actual encounters. -- Miyamoto Musashi
If you look at the people who have high impact, they have pretty general knowledge. They don't have a really narrowly focused education. -- Larry Page
We prepare to die by pushing ourselves to love less narrowly. In that sense, readying ourselves for death is really an ever-widening entry into life. -- Ronald Rolheiser
If [Donald] Trump wins narrowly, Democrats can blame the loss on FBI director James Comey, who inserted himself late in the campaign in an unprecedented way. -- Mara Liasson
My freedom will be so much the greater and more meaningful, the more narrowly I limit my field of action and the more I surround myself with obstacles. -- Richard Diebenkorn
I'm defining [presidential courage] pretty narrowly. It's not only taking a big political risk but it's also the risk that in the hindsight of history, people think it's wise. -- Michael Beschloss
It should go without saying that even the most narrowly construed eminent-domain power would violate individual rights. Either a person owns his legitimately acquired property or he does not. -- Sheldon Richman
The poet is a man who lives at last by watching his moods. An old poet comes at last to watch his moods as narrowly as a cat does a mouse. -- Henry David Thoreau
But an inferior talent can only be graceful when it's carrying inferior ideas. And the more narrowly you can look at a thing the more entertaining you can be about it. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
It is the theory of all modern civilized governments that they protect and foster the liberty of the citizen; it is the practice of all of them to limit its exercise, and sometimes very narrowly. -- H. L. Mencken
As people we narrowly get by with our lives each day, energy from our soft, delicate actions appearing like cherry blossoms, only once, and once for a short while. Eventually petals fall to the ground. -- Banana Yoshimoto
The artist dreams of works of real breadth; but, limited by his personality and the nature of his medium, limited by inner disturbances and loss of purpose, he often works more narrowly than he'd intended. -- Eric Maisel

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