No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.
American men, as a group, seem to be interested in only two things, money and breasts. It seems a very narrow outlook.
. . . the fellow's got a bee in his bonnet. Thinks God's a secretion of the liver--all right once in a way, but there's no need to keep on about it. There's nothing you can't prove if your outlook is only sufficiently limited.
I am truly horrified by modern man. Such absence of feeling, such narrowness of outlook, such lack of passion and information, such feebleness of thought.
My parents were strict, but it was the world I lived in. I had no idea there was a world outside.
Life is a peephole, a single tiny entry onto a vastness--how can I not dwell on this brief, cramped view of things? This peephole is all I've got!
Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one's outlook; it only confirms one's idea that one is unique.
I talked to women who lived there, to get their speech patterns and outlook on life - and how narrow that is.
There's nothing you can't prove if your outlook is only sufficiently limited.
As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and the consistent narrowness of his outlook.
I was raised in a very sheltered, narrow environment.
Become familiar with your home, but know also about your neighbors. The young man who never went anywhere thinks his mother is the greatest cook.
The window to the world can be covered by a newspaper.
I've always had a proper job. I don't know anything else.
Some of the journalists who've ended up writing about our band - and this is disappointing to say - have a very narrow outlook. And because of that they fundamentally misunderstand us.
